Highest rated as cast or director
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
Acted in 86
2020s
- 2026
- 2025
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022
The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
My Brother, The Android And Me
Movie
Gossip
Masaki Niwa · 11 episodes
- 2021
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
Kotaro Higashi · 8 episodes
The Ideal Man
Mitsuyasu · 8 episodes
ZOKKI
Movie
Sakura
Movie
- 2020
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） · 5 episodes
2010s
- 2019
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
Movie
それを愛とまちがえるから
TV
Cheers to Miki Clinic
Miki Shouichirou · 10 episodes
- 2018
Black Scandal
TV
Still Life of Memories
Haruma
- 2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
- 2016
A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
Kokoro
Jiro
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Osako Tatsuya · 3 episodes
- 2015
No No Sleep
Japanese Man
Beautiful 2015
Movie
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV
- 2013
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
- 2012
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
- 2011
Smuggler
Spine
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2000s
- 2008
- 2007
- 2006
Crickets
Taichi
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
- 2005
Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
- 2004
Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
69
Adama
- 2003
SHORT FILMS
Movie
- 2002
Tokyo 10+01
Fake
- 2001
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
- 2000
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
1990s
- 1999
- 1998
Blue Days
Shuri Sawaki · 11 episodes
When the Saints Go Marching In
Takahara Ren · 11 episodes
- 1997
Friend's Lover
TV
- 1996
- 1993
Directed 2
2020s
- 2021
Sakura
Director
2000s
- 2003
SHORT FILMS
Director
Appearances3
2000s
- 2001
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
- 2000
Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
1990s
- 1996
Making-of Kids Return
Himself