Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
May 19, 1975
Place of Birth:
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
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Year | TV Show | Role |
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2024 | Destiny | Okuda Takashi |
2024 | House of the Owl | Ichiro Ogami |
2023 | My Second Aoharu | Hinata Shogo |
2022 | Gossip | Masaki Niwa |
2022 | Fishbowl Wives | Takuya Hiraga |
2022 | Pandora's Fruit | Caen Karl |
2021 | The Ideal Man | Mitsuyasu |
2021 | Tokyo Houchi Shokudou | Kotaro Higashi |
2020 | The Ship of Theseus | Mikio Kimura |
2020 | DIVER -Special Investigation Unit- | Naoya Date(伊達 直哉) |
2020 | The Sun Does Not Move | Osamu Sakurai |
2019 | それを愛とまちがえるから | |
2019 | Voice | Kyosuke Kuon |
2019 | Cheers to Miki Clinic | Miki Shouichirou |
2019 | Your Turn To Kill | Go Sano |
2018 | Love and Fortune | Tsuchiya Jo |
2018 | Black Scandal | |
2016 | シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 | Haruki Kagawa |
2016 | Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko! | Osako Tatsuya |
2012 | Keigo Higashino Mysteries | |
2008 | Code Blue | Hiroki Shinkai |
1998 | When the Saints Go Marching In | Takahara Ren |
1998 | Blue Days | Shuri Sawaki |
1997 | Tomodachi no Koibito |