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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.9056 |
| Birthday | 1975-05-19 |
| Place of Birth | Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Also Known As | Masanobu Andô, Andō Masanobu, Masanobu Andō, Andô Masanobu, Masanobu Andou, Andou Masanobu, 安藤 政信, |
2000
Battle Royale
7.266/3897
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Roy...
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2023
Rohan at the Louvre
7.722/19
Rohan Kishibe is a mangaka who can read people like a book. At work on a new creation, Rohan recalls a tale of the blackest painting ever made. Called...
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1999
Adrenaline Drive
7.2/15
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Adrenaline Drive
1996
Kids Return
6.93/343
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer,...
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2022
My Brother, The Android And Me
0/0
A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
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2007
Sukiyaki Western Django
6.178/365
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
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2000
Monday
7.016/61
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what h...
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2007
Nightmare Detective
6.1/82
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
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2002
Drive
6.881/21
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber w...
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2004
Black Kiss
5.526/19
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2000
Space Travelers
6.1/14
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1999
Railroad Man
7.1/45
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2006
Strawberry Shortcakes
5.635/26
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
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2011
Smuggler
6.4/28
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
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2011
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
5.4/34
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2001
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
6.875/8
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden. Such people are known as "satorare" and their...
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2003
SHORT FILMS
0/0
Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful. Third...
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SHORT FILMS
2022
The Setting Sun
6/1
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2005
Aegis
5.4/5
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Aegis
2001
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
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The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.
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Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
2000
Making of 'Battle Royale'
0/0
An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.
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2013
Petal Dance
6.4/17
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Petal Dance
2008
Forever Enthralled
6.2/30
The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.
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2005
Synesthesia
4.75/4
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Synesthesia
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
6.2/12
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2022
Thousand and One Nights
6/4
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Thousand and One Nights
2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
7.286/117
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2006
Sakuran
6.522/68
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Sakuran
2001
Red Shadow
4.907/27
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2011
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
8.044/91
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1998
Innocent World
7/1
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2002
Tokyo 10+01
6.333/3
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2006
Green Mind, Metal Bats
6.6/9
The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when...
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2006
Crickets
7/2
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Crickets
2004
69
6.5/15
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, an...
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2003
Karaoke Terror
5.692/13
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Karaoke Terror
2015
No No Sleep
5.9/13
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2024
City Hunter
6.483/261
An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his de...
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2012
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
7.8/5
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Stay Mum
7.7/7
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2015
Gonin Saga
5.1/15
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2016
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
6/15
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2016
Sadako vs. Kayako
5.6/249
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2016
Kokoro
5.719/16
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2021
Sakura
0/0
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2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
4.5/2
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2016
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
6.6/12
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2018
Code Blue: The Movie
6.7/10
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2018
Still Life of Memories
4.143/14
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2019
Day and Night
6.2/6
A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.
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2018
Lenses on Her Heart
7/1
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2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
8.8/3
Japanese horror film with four segments.
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1996
Making-of Kids Return
6.8/5
Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.
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2013
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
1/2
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2016
A Flower Aflame
5.8/14
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2006
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
6.438/56
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2021
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
7/99
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1993
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
5.455/11
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her paleontologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
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2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
7.664/555
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ZOKKI
7.3/7
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ZOKKI
2015
Beautiful 2015
0/0
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2019
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
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