Actor

Masanobu Ando

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Very extensive acting filmography.

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Movies: 62Series: 27Crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 74862

IMDb ID: nm0027942

Known for: Acting

Born: May 19, 1975

Age: 51

Place of birth: Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1993 - 2026

Years active: 34

Average TMDB rating: 6.65

Wikidata: Q373959

Also known as

Masanobu Andô • Andō Masanobu • Masanobu Andō • Andô Masanobu • Masanobu Andou • Andou Masanobu • 安藤政信

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Director (2)

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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