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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
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1975-05-19
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 8.8
- info Birth Place Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Masanobu Ando
7.3
Battle Royale
2000-12-16
7
Rohan au Louvre
2023-05-26
7.1
Adrenaline Drive
1999-02-18
7.1
Kids Return
1996-07-27
0
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022-01-07
6.2
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007-09-15
6.9
Monday
2000-04-29
5.9
Nightmare Detective
2007-01-13
6.5
Drive
2002-08-24
5.3
Black Kiss
2004-10-01
5.5
Space Travelers
2000-04-08
6.9
Railroad Man
1999-06-05
5.8
Strawberry Shortcakes
2006-09-23
6.4
Smuggler
2011-10-22
5.3
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
2011-03-17
6.5
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
2001-03-17
0
SHORT FILMS
2003-03-08
6
The Setting Sun
2022-11-04
4.2
Aegis
2005-07-30
0
Making of 'Battle Royale'
2000-12-01
0
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2001-01-13
6.4
Petal Dance
2013-04-19
6.2
Forever Enthralled
2008-12-05
3.5
Synesthesia
2005-03-01
5.2
The Yin-Yang Master Zero
2024-04-19
6.5
Thousand and One Nights
2022-10-06
7.3
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
2011-09-09
6.4
Sakuran
2006-12-07
4.8
Red Shadow
2001-08-11
8.1
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
2011-09-30
6
Karaoke Terror
2003-11-08
6.6
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006-08-26
6.2
69
2004-07-10
5.5
Tokyo 10+01
2002-08-03
7
Crickets
2006-11-23
0
Innocent World
1998-10-03
6.2
No No Sleep
2015-04-21
6.6
City Hunter
2024-04-24
0
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2012-05-10
0
Stay Mum
2024-06-07
5.1
Gonin Saga
2015-09-26
6
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
2016-03-05
5.6
Sadako vs. Kayako
2016-06-18
6
Kokoro
2016-03-30
0
Sakura,
2021-01-01
3
An Emblem Dedicated To You
2017-01-03
6.6
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
2016-10-22
6.7
Code Blue: The Movie
2018-07-27
4.2
Still Life of Memories
2018-07-21
5.6
Day and Night
2019-01-26
0
Lenses on Her Heart
2018-09-15
9.8
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
2000-03-28
6
Making-of Kids Return
1996-12-31
1
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
2013-02-02
6
A Flower Aflame
2016-08-06
6.4
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006-02-11
7.1
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021-02-05
5
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993-07-03
7.7
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
2021-06-04
7.3
ZOKKI
2021-04-02
10
When the Saints Go Marching In
1998-01-09
7.7
The Ideal Man
2021-04-08
8
Blue Days
1998-07-03
0
Tomodachi no Koibito
1997-04-10
7.5
Code Blue
2008-07-03
7.2
Gossip
2022-01-06
6
Fishbowl Wives
2022-02-14
7
My Second Aoharu
2023-10-17
0
それを愛とまちがえるから
2019-02-09
7
Pandora's Fruit
2022-04-23
5.8
Voice
2019-07-13
0
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016-11-24
6
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
2016-02-27
7.2
The Ship of Theseus
2020-01-19
6.7
Love and Fortune
2018-09-14
5.5
Destiny
2024-04-09
6.7
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012-07-05
0
Cheers to Miki Clinic
2019-01-12
7.3
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
2021-09-16
6.8
House of the Owl
2024-04-24
0
Black Scandal
2018-10-04
5
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
2020-09-22
7.5
Your Turn To Kill
2019-04-14
7.7
The Sun Does Not Move
2020-05-24