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person_profile-Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando Age: 49

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Masanobu Ando

Date of Birth:

May 19, 1975

Country of birth:

Japan

Biography of

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

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Filmography of

Masanobu Ando

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My Second Aoharu

日向祥吾 ( Actor )

... 2023

Gossip

Masaki Niwa ( Actor )

... 2022

Fishbowl Wives

Takuya Hiraga ( Actor )

... 2022

Tokyo Houchi Shokudou

Kotaro Higashi ( Actor )

... 2021

Voice

Kyosuke Kuon ( Actor )

... 2019 - 2021

The Ideal Man

Mitsuyasu ( Actor )

... 2021

DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-

Naoya Date（伊達 直哉） ( Actor )

... 2020

The Sun Does Not Move

Osamu Sakurai ( Actor )

... 2020

Cheers to Miki Clinic

Miki Shouichirou ( Actor )

... 2019

Love and Fortune

Tsuchiya Jo ( Actor )

... 2018

Code Blue

Hiroki Shinkai ( Actor )

... 2008 - 2018

... 2012

Blue Days

Shuri Sawaki ( Actor )

... 1998

When the Saints Go Marching In

Takahara Ren ( Actor )

... 1998