The Royal Family
2025 · TV Show
as Hiroshi Hironaka
Masanobu Ando
1975-05-19
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Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Masanobu Ando (安藤 政信, Andō Masanobu, born May 19, 1975 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor and director. For his second film, in 1996, he won the Film Academy of Japan's Best New Actor Award, starring in Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return. Ando has extensive experience in both Japanese television drama and film and has played a large variety of different roles: mentally challenged (Innocent World), bank robber (Space Travelers, Drive), doctor (Transparent), ninja and samurai (Red Shadow), even a corpse (Monday). Out of all of Ando's characters, he is best known for his role as Kazuo Kiriyama, the heartless, psychopathic killer in the controversial film, Battle Royale (2000). He also played an art forger in the low-budget Battle Royale parody Tokyo 10+01 (2003). As well as acting, Ando has been in Japanese ad campaigns for the popular Japanese snack food, Pocky, Toyota, and for DoCoMo mobile phones. In 2003, he directed his first film, Adagietto. Sehr langsam, starring Japanese actress, Kumiko Aso. The short is included in Hiroyuki Nakano's Peacedelic compilation called Short Films. In it, he also stars in the short, 県道スター (loosely translated to "Prefectural road star"). In his spare time, he enjoys photography and shopping Description above from the Wikipedia article Masanobu Ando, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024 · Movie
as Sadafumi Heguri
City Hunter
2024 · Movie
as Hideyuki Makimura
Stay Mum
2024 · Movie
as Yasuo Inukai
Destiny
2024 · TV Show
as Okuda Takashi
House of the Owl
2024 · TV Show
as Ichiro Ogami
Rohan at the Louvre
2023 · Movie
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
My Second Aoharu
2023 · TV Show
as Hinata Shogo
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022 · Movie
The Setting Sun
2022 · Movie
as Jiro Uehara
Thousand and One Nights
2022 · Movie
as Yoji Tamura
Gossip
2022 · TV Show
as Masaki Niwa
Fishbowl Wives
2022 · TV Show
as Takuya Hiraga
Pandora's Fruit
2022 · TV Show
as Caen Karl
Sakura
2021 · Movie
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021 · Movie
as Suzuki
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021 · Movie
as Shinsaku Takasugi
ZOKKI
2021 · Movie
The Ideal Man
2021 · TV Show
as Mitsuyasu
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
2021 · TV Show
as Kotaro Higashi
The Ship of Theseus
2020 · TV Show
as Mikio Kimura
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
2020 · TV Show
as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
The Sun Does Not Move
2020 · TV Show
as Osamu Sakurai
Day and Night
2019 · Movie
as Kenichi Kitamura
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019 · Movie
それを愛とまちがえるから
2019 · TV Show
Voice
2019 · TV Show
as Kyosuke Kuon
Cheers to Miki Clinic
2019 · TV Show
as Miki Shouichirou
Your Turn to Kill
2019 · TV Show
as Go Sano
Code Blue: The Movie
2018 · Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
Still Life of Memories
2018 · Movie
as Haruma
Lenses on Her Heart
2018 · Movie
as Yuji Kiba
Love and Fortune
2018 · TV Show
as Tsuchiya Jo
Black Scandal
2018 · TV Show
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017 · Movie
as Kamimura Ren
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016 · Movie
as Yasui
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016 · Movie
as Keizō Tokiwa
Kokoro
2016 · Movie
as Jiro
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016 · Movie
as Hajime Gakuto
A Flower Aflame
2016 · Movie
as Yasunori Ochi
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016 · TV Show
as Haruki Kagawa
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
2016 · TV Show
as Osako Tatsuya
No No Sleep
2015 · Movie
as Japanese Man
Gonin Saga
2015 · Movie
as Seiji Shikine
Beautiful 2015
2015 · Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · TV Show
Petal Dance
2013 · Movie
as Naoto
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013 · Movie
as Shuji Yamura
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012 · Movie
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012 · TV Show
Smuggler
2011 · Movie
as Spine
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011 · Movie
as The Mute
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011 · Movie
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011 · Movie
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Forever Enthralled
2008 · Movie
as Ryuichi Tanaka
Code Blue
2008 · TV Show
as Shinkai Hiroki
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · Movie
as Yoichi
Nightmare Detective
2007 · Movie
as Detective Wakamiya
Strawberry Shortcakes
2006 · Movie
as Kikuchi
Sakuran
2006 · Movie
as Seiji
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006 · Movie
as Ishioka
Crickets
2006 · Movie
as Taichi
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Movie
as Shiro Kazuki
Aegis
2005 · Movie
as Don-chol
Synesthesia
2005 · Movie
as Takashi Nohara
Black Kiss
2004 · Movie
as Tatsuo Sorayama
69
2004 · Movie
as Adama
SHORT FILMS
2003 · Movie
Karaoke Terror
2003 · Movie
as Sugioka
Drive
2002 · Movie
as Kodama Makato
Tokyo 10+01
2002 · Movie
as Fake
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001 · Movie
as Kenichi Satomi
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001 · Movie
as Self
Red Shadow
2001 · Movie
as Akakage
Battle Royale
2000 · Movie
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Monday
2000 · Movie
as Mitsuo Kondo
Space Travelers
2000 · Movie
as Makoto Fujimoto
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000 · Movie
as Self
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000 · Movie
as Satô
Adrenaline Drive
1999 · Movie
as Satoru Suzuki
Railroad Man
1999 · Movie
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Innocent World
1998 · Movie
as Takuya
When the Saints Go Marching In
1998 · TV Show
as Takahara Ren
Blue Days
1998 · TV Show
as Shuri Sawaki
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Tomodachi no Koibito
1997 · TV Show
Kids Return
1996 · Movie
as Shinji
Making-of Kids Return
1996 · Movie
as Himself
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993 · Movie
