Acting credits
87
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Masanobu Ando
Acting
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Movies: 62Series: 25Crew credits: 2
TMDB ID: 74862
IMDb ID: nm0027942
Known for: Acting
Born: May 19, 1975
Age: 50
Place of birth: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1993 - 2025
Years active: 33
Average TMDB rating: 6.6
Wikidata: Q373959
Also known as
Masanobu Andô • Andō Masanobu • Masanobu Andō • Andô Masanobu • Masanobu Andou • Andou Masanobu • 安藤 政信
Other jobs
Director (2)
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
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Masanobu Ando.
7.7
Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai
2024 Movie
6.5
City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura
2024 Movie
6.3
The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri
2024 Movie
7.7
Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2023 Movie
6.0
The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara
2022 Movie
5.7
Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura
2022 Movie
My Brother, The Android And Me
2022 Movie
7.6
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi
2021 Movie
7.3
ZOKKI
2021 Movie
7.0
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki
2021 Movie
Sakura,
2021 Movie
TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」
2019 Movie
6.2
Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura
2019 Movie
7.0
Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba
2018 Movie
6.7
Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai
2018 Movie
4.1
Still Life of Memories
as Haruma
2018 Movie
3.0
An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren
2017 Movie
6.6
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto
2016 Movie
5.8
A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi
2016 Movie
5.6
Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa
2016 Movie
5.7
Kokoro
as Jiro
2016 Movie
6.0
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui
2016 Movie
5.1
Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine
2015 Movie
5.9
No No Sleep
as Japanese Man
2015 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Masanobu Ando.
8.7
The Royal Family
as Hiroshi Hironaka • 10 eps
2025 Series
6.5
House of the Owl
as Ichiro Ogami • 10 eps
2024 Series
5.6
Destiny
as Okuda Takashi • 9 eps
2024 Series
7.5
My Second Aoharu
as Hinata Shogo • 10 eps
2023 Series
7.0
Pandora's Fruit
as Caen Karl • 16 eps
2022 Series
6.0
Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband] • 8 eps
2022 Series
7.2
Gossip
as Masaki Niwa • 11 eps
2022 Series
7.3
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
as Kotaro Higashi • 8 eps
2021 Series
7.7
The Ideal Man
as Mitsuyasu • 8 eps
2021 Series
5.0
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
as Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） • 5 eps
2020 Series
8.0
The Sun Does Not Move
as Osamu Sakurai • 6 eps
2020 Series
6.8
The Ship of Theseus
as Mikio Kimura • 10 eps
2020 Series
5.8
Voice
as Kyosuke Kuon • 10 eps
2019 Series
7.5
Your Turn to Kill
as Go Sano • 20 eps
2019 Series
それを愛とまちがえるから
5 eps
2019 Series
Cheers to Miki Clinic
as Miki Shouichirou • 10 eps
2019 Series
Black Scandal
10 eps
2018 Series
6.6
Love and Fortune
as Tsuchiya Jo • 12 eps
2018 Series
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
as Haruki Kagawa • 1 eps
2016 Series
6.0
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
as Osako Tatsuya • 3 eps
2016 Series
8.8
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
1 eps
2015 Series
6.7
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
11 eps
2012 Series
7.7
Code Blue
as Shinkai Hiroki • 10 eps
2008 Series
8.0
Blue Days
as Shuri Sawaki • 11 eps
1998 Series