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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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Masanobu Ando, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Release Date | Title | Character Name | Rating | Your Lists |
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June 7th, 2024 | Stay Mum | Yasuo Inukai | 7.7 | |
April 24th, 2024 | City Hunter | Hideyuki Makimura | 6.5 | |
April 19th, 2024 | The Yin Yang Master Zero | Sadafumi Heguri | 6.2 | |
May 26th, 2023 | Rohan at the Louvre | Ryunosuke Tatsumi | 7.7 | |
November 4th, 2022 | The Setting Sun | Jiro Uehara | 6 | |
October 6th, 2022 | Thousand and One Nights | Yoji Tamura | 5.7 | |
January 7th, 2022 | My Brother, The Android And Me | TBD | TBD | |
June 4th, 2021 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning | Shinsaku Takasugi | 7.6 | |
April 2nd, 2021 | ZOKKI | TBD | 7.3 | |
February 5th, 2021 | The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill | Suzuki | 7 | |
January 1st, 2021 | Sakura, | TBD | TBD | |
November 8th, 2019 | TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」 | TBD | TBD | |
January 26th, 2019 | Day and Night | Kenichi Kitamura | 6.2 | |
September 15th, 2018 | Lenses on Her Heart | Yuji Kiba | 7 | |
July 27th, 2018 | Code Blue: The Movie | Hiroki Shinkai | 6.7 | |
July 21st, 2018 | Still Life of Memories | Haruma | 4.1 | |
January 3rd, 2017 | An Emblem Dedicated To You | Kamimura Ren | 4.5 | |
October 22nd, 2016 | Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final | Hajime Gakuto | 6.6 | |
August 6th, 2016 | A Flower Aflame | Yasunori Ochi | 5.8 | |
June 18th, 2016 | Sadako vs. Kayako | Keizō Tokiwa | 5.6 | |
March 30th, 2016 | Kokoro | Jiro | 5.7 | |
March 5th, 2016 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation | Yasui | 6 | |
September 26th, 2015 | Gonin Saga | Seiji Shikine | 5.1 | |
April 21st, 2015 | No No Sleep | Japanese Man | 5.9 | |
March 25th, 2015 | Beautiful 2015 | TBD | TBD | |
April 19th, 2013 | Petal Dance | Naoto | 6.4 | |
February 2nd, 2013 | Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope | Shuji Yamura | 1 | |
May 10th, 2012 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | 7.8 | |
October 22nd, 2011 | Smuggler | Spine | 6.4 | |
September 30th, 2011 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | 8 | |
September 9th, 2011 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | 7.3 | |
March 17th, 2011 | The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman | The Mute | 5.4 | |
December 5th, 2008 | Forever Enthralled | Ryuichi Tanaka | 6.2 | |
September 15th, 2007 | Sukiyaki Western Django | Yoichi | 6.2 | |
January 13th, 2007 | Nightmare Detective | Detective Wakamiya | 6 | |
December 7th, 2006 | Sakuran | Seiji | 6.5 | |
November 23rd, 2006 | Crickets | Taichi | 7 | |
September 23rd, 2006 | Strawberry Shortcakes | Kikuchi | 5.6 | |
August 26th, 2006 | Green Mind, Metal Bats | Ishioka | 6.6 | |
February 11th, 2006 | Big Bang Love, Juvenile A | Shiro Kazuki | 6.4 | |
July 30th, 2005 | Aegis | Don-chol | 5.4 | |
March 1st, 2005 | Synesthesia | Takashi Nohara | 4.8 | |
October 1st, 2004 | Black Kiss | Tatsuo Sorayama | 5.5 | |
July 10th, 2004 | 69 | Adama | 6.5 | |
November 8th, 2003 | Karaoke Terror | Sugioka | 5.9 | |
March 8th, 2003 | SHORT FILMS | TBD | TBD | |
August 24th, 2002 | Drive | Kodama Makato | 6.9 | |
August 3rd, 2002 | Tokyo 10+01 | Fake | 6.3 | |
August 11th, 2001 | Red Shadow | Akakage | 4.9 | |
March 17th, 2001 | Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius | Kenichi Satomi | 6.9 | |
January 13th, 2001 | Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE | Self | TBD | |
December 16th, 2000 | Battle Royale | Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6) | 7.3 | |
December 1st, 2000 | Making of 'Battle Royale' | Self | TBD | |
April 29th, 2000 | Monday | Mitsuo Kondo | 7 | |
April 8th, 2000 | Space Travelers | Makoto Fujimoto | 6.1 | |
March 28th, 2000 | School Ghost Story: Curse Special | Satô | 8.8 | |
June 5th, 1999 | Railroad Man | Toshiyuki Yoshioka | 7.1 | |
February 18th, 1999 | Adrenaline Drive | Satoru Suzuki | 7.3 | |
October 3rd, 1998 | Innocent World | Takuya | 7 | |
December 31st, 1996 | Making-of Kids Return | Himself | 6.8 | |
July 27th, 1996 | Kids Return | Shinji | 6.9 | |
July 3rd, 1993 | Rex: A Dinosaur's Story | TBD | 5.5 |