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
Battle Royale
(Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6))
Rohan au Louvre
(Ryunosuke Tatsumi)
Adrenaline Drive
(Satoru Suzuki)
Kids Return
(Shinji)
My Brother, The Android And Me
Sukiyaki Western Django
(Yoichi)
Monday
(Mitsuo Kondo)
Nightmare Detective
(Detective Wakamiya)
Drive
(Kodama Makato)
Black Kiss
(Tatsuo Sorayama)
Space Travelers
(Makoto Fujimoto)
Railroad Man
(Toshiyuki Yoshioka)
Strawberry Shortcakes
(Kikuchi)
Smuggler
(Spine)
The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
(The Mute)
Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
(Kenichi Satomi)
SHORT FILMS
The Setting Sun
(Jiro Uehara)
Aegis
(Don-chol)
Making of 'Battle Royale'
(Self)
Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
(Self)
Petal Dance
(Naoto)
Forever Enthralled
(Ryuichi Tanaka)
Synesthesia
(Takashi Nohara)
The Yin-Yang Master Zero
(Sadafumi Heguri)
Thousand and One Nights
(Yoji Tamura)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
(Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan)
Sakuran
(Seiji)
Red Shadow
(Akakage)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
(Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan)
Karaoke Terror
(Sugioka)
Green Mind, Metal Bats
(Ishioka)
69
(Adama)
Tokyo 10+01
(Fake)
Crickets
(Taichi)
Innocent World
(Takuya)
No No Sleep
(Japanese man)
City Hunter
(Hideyuki Makimura)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
(Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan)
Stay Mum
Gonin Saga
(Seiji Shikine)
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
(Yasui)
Sadako vs. Kayako
(Keizō Tokiwa)
Kokoro
(Jiro)
Sakura,
An Emblem Dedicated To You
(Kamimura Ren)
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
(Hajime Gakuto)
Code Blue: The Movie
(Hiroki Shinkai)
Still Life of Memories
(Haruma)
Day and Night
(Kenichi Kitamura)
Lenses on Her Heart
(Yuji Kiba)
School Ghost Story: Curse Special
(Satô)
Making-of Kids Return
(Himself)
Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
(Shuji Yamura)
A Flower Aflame
(Yasunori Ochi)
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
(Shiro Kazuki)
THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
(Suzuki)
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
(Shinsaku Takasugi)
ZOKKI
When the Saints Go Marching In
(Takahara Ren)
The Ideal Man
(Mitsuyasu)
Blue Days
(Shuri Sawaki)
Tomodachi no Koibito
Code Blue
(Hiroki Shinkai)
Gossip
(Masaki Niwa)
Fishbowl Wives
(Takuya Hiraga)
My Second Aoharu
(Hinata Shogo)
それを愛とまちがえるから
Pandora's Fruit
(Caen Karl)
Voice
(Kyosuke Kuon)
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
(Haruki Kagawa)
Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
(Osako Tatsuya)
The Ship of Theseus
(Mikio Kimura)
Love and Fortune
(Tsuchiya Jo)
Destiny
(Okuda Takashi)
Keigo Higashino Mysteries
Cheers to Miki Clinic
(Miki Shouichirou)
Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
(Kotaro Higashi)
House of the Owl
(Ichiro Ogami)
Black Scandal
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
(Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）)
Your Turn To Kill
(Go Sano)
The Sun Does Not Move
(Osamu Sakurai)