Masanobu Ando
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
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Known for
Code Blue
Hiroki Shinkai
House of the Owl
Ichiro Ogami
Your Turn To Kill
Go Sano
Fishbowl Wives
Takuya Hiraga
The Ship of Theseus
Mikio Kimura
Gossip
Masaki Niwa
Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
Love and Fortune
Tsuchiya Jo
Pandora's Fruit
Caen Karl
Voice
Kyosuke Kuon
City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Miki Shouichirou
Black Scandal
My Second Aoharu
Hinata Shogo
The Ideal Man
Mitsuyasu
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
Kotaro Higashi
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
When the Saints Go Marching In
Takahara Ren
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Haruki Kagawa
Tomodachi no Koibito
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
Blue Days
Shuri Sawaki
それを愛とまちがえるから
Kids Return
Shinji
Destiny
Okuda Takashi
Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
The Sun Does Not Move
Osamu Sakurai
Sakuran
Seiji
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Mute
Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
Karaoke Terror
Sugioka
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Monday
Mitsuo Kondo
Forever Enthralled
Ryuichi Tanaka
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Osako Tatsuya
Space Travelers
Makoto Fujimoto
Smuggler
Spine
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
Strawberry Shortcakes
Kikuchi
Nightmare Detective
Detective Wakamiya
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
Aegis
Don-chol
Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Sukiyaki Western Django
Yoichi
ZOKKI
Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
Adrenaline Drive
Satoru Suzuki
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
69
Adama
My Brother, The Android And Me
Innocent World
Takuya
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
Crickets
Taichi
Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Shiro Kazuki
Red Shadow
Akakage
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
Petal Dance
Naoto
Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
Drive
Kodama Makato
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
Kokoro
Jiro
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
Sakura,
SHORT FILMS
Making-of Kids Return
Himself
Tokyo 10+01
Fake