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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 19, 1975
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
Masanobu Ando
1.2 Popularity
Biography
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
Known For
9.1
Hiroshi Hironaka
The Royal Family
2025
7.7
Yasuo Inukai
Stay Mum
2024
6.3
Ichiro Ogami
House of the Owl
2024
6.5
Hideyuki Makimura
City Hunter
2024
5.4
Sadafumi Heguri
The Yin Yang Master Zero
2024
5.6
Okuda Takashi
Destiny
2024
7.5
Hinata Shogo
My Second Aoharu
2023
7.8
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
Rohan at the Louvre
2023
6.0
Jiro Uehara
The Setting Sun
2022
5.7
Yoji Tamura
Thousand and One Nights
2022
Credits
The Royal Family
as Hiroshi Hironaka
2025
9.1
Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai
2024
7.7
House of the Owl
as Ichiro Ogami
2024
6.3
City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura
2024
6.5
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri
2024
5.4
Destiny
as Okuda Takashi
2024
5.6
My Second Aoharu
as Hinata Shogo
2023
7.5
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2023
7.8
The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara
2022
6.0
Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura
2022
5.7
Pandora's Fruit
as Caen Karl
2022
7.0
Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga
2022
6.1
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022
0.0
Gossip
as Masaki Niwa
2022
7.2
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
as Kotaro Higashi
2021
7.3
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
2021
7.7
The Ideal Man
as Mitsuyasu
2021
7.7
ZOKKI
2021
7.3
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki
2021
6.9
Sakura,
2021
0.0
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
2020
5.0
The Sun Does Not Move
as Osamu Sakurai
2020
7.9
The Ship of Theseus
as Mikio Kimura
2020
7.2
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019
0.0
Voice
as Kyosuke Kuon
2019
5.8
Your Turn To Kill
as Go Sano
2019
7.5
それを愛とまちがえるから
2019
0.0
Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura
2019
6.2
Cheers to Miki Clinic
as Miki Shouichirou
2019
0.0
Black Scandal
2018
0.0
Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba
2018
7.0
Love and Fortune
as Tsuchiya Jo
2018
6.5
Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
2018
6.7
Still Life of Memories
as Haruma
2018
4.1
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren
2017
3.0
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
as Haruki Kagawa
2016
0.0
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto
2016
6.6
A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi
2016
5.8
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
2016
5.6
Kokoro
as Jiro
2016
5.7
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui
2016
6.0
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
as Osako Tatsuya
2016
6.0
Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine
2015
5.1
No No Sleep
as Japanese Man
2015
5.9
Beautiful 2015
2015
0.0
Petal Dance
as Naoto
2013
6.3
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
as Shuji Yamura
2013
1.0
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
2012
6.7
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2012
8.0
Smuggler
as Spine
2011
6.4
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
8.0
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011
7.3
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute
2011
5.4
Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka
2008
6.3
Code Blue
as Hiroki Shinkai
2008
7.7
Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi
2007
6.2
Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya
2007
6.0
Sakuran
as Seiji
2006
6.5
Crickets
as Taichi
2006
7.0
Strawberry Shortcakes
as Kikuchi
2006
5.6
Green Mind, Metal Bats
as Ishioka
2006
6.6
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
as Shiro Kazuki
2006
6.4
Aegis
as Don-chol
2005
4.2
Synesthesia
as Takashi Nohara
2005
3.7
Black Kiss
as Tatsuo Sorayama
2004
5.2
69
as Adama
2004
6.2
Karaoke Terror
as Sugioka
2003
5.6
SHORT FILMS
2003
0.0
Drive
as Kodama Makato
2002
6.6
Tokyo 10+01
as Fake
2002
5.5
Red Shadow
as Akakage
2001
4.8
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
as Kenichi Satomi
2001
6.5
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
as Self
2001
0.0
Battle Royale
as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
2000
7.3
Making of 'Battle Royale'
as Self
2000
0.0
Monday
as Mitsuo Kondo
2000
6.9
Space Travelers
as Makoto Fujimoto
2000
5.9
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
as Satô
2000
9.8
Railroad Man
as Toshiyuki Yoshioka
1999
7.0
Adrenaline Drive
as Satoru Suzuki
1999
7.1
Innocent World
as Takuya
1998
0.0
Blue Days
as Shuri Sawaki
1998
8.0
When the Saints Go Marching In
as Takahara Ren
1998
10.0
🎬
Tomodachi no Koibito
1997
0.0
Making-of Kids Return
as Himself
1996
6.8
Kids Return
as Shinji
1996
6.9
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
1993
5.1