Masanobu Ando
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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Filmography (88 Appearances)
The Royal Family
Stay Mum
City Hunter
House of the Owl
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Destiny
My Second Aoharu
Rohan at the Louvre
The Setting Sun
Thousand and One Nights
Pandora's Fruit
Fishbowl Wives
My Brother, The Android And Me
Gossip
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
The Ideal Man
ZOKKI
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Sakura,
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
The Sun Does Not Move
The Ship of Theseus
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Voice
Your Turn to Kill
それを愛とまちがえるから
Day and Night
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Black Scandal
Lenses on Her Heart
Love and Fortune
Code Blue: The Movie
Still Life of Memories
An Emblem Dedicated To You
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
A Flower Aflame
Sadako vs. Kayako
Kokoro
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Gonin Saga
No No Sleep
Beautiful 2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Petal Dance
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Smuggler
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
Forever Enthralled
Code Blue
Sukiyaki Western Django
Nightmare Detective
Sakuran
Crickets
Strawberry Shortcakes
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Aegis
Synesthesia
Black Kiss
69
Karaoke Terror
SHORT FILMS
Drive
Tokyo 10+01
Red Shadow
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Battle Royale
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Monday
Space Travelers
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Railroad Man
Adrenaline Drive
Innocent World
Blue Days
When the Saints Go Marching In
Tomodachi no Koibito
Making-of Kids Return
Kids Return
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story