Actor
Masanobu Ando
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 samura ...

Known For
Acting
2024 -- Stay Mum |
2024 -- City Hunter | Hideyuki Makimura
2024 -- The Yin-Yang Master Zero | Sadafumi Heguri
2023 -- Rohan au Louvre | Ryunosuke Tatsumi
2022 -- The Setting Sun | Jiro Uehara
2022 -- Thousand and One Nights | Yoji Tamura
2022 -- My Brother, The Android And Me |
2021 -- Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning | Shinsaku Takasugi
2021 -- ZOKKI |
2021 -- THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill | Suzuki
2021 -- Sakura, |
2019 -- Day and Night | Kenichi Kitamura
2018 -- Lenses on Her Heart | Yuji Kiba
2018 -- Code Blue: The Movie | Hiroki Shinkai
2018 -- Still Life of Memories | Haruma
2017 -- An Emblem Dedicated To You | Kamimura Ren
2016 -- Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final | Hajime Gakuto
2016 -- A Flower Aflame | Yasunori Ochi
2016 -- Sadako vs. Kayako | Keizō Tokiwa
2016 -- Kokoro | Jiro
2016 -- Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation | Yasui
2015 -- Gonin Saga | Seiji Shikine
2015 -- No No Sleep | Japanese Man
2013 -- Petal Dance | Naoto
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
2011 -- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011 -- Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
2011 -- The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman | The Mute
2008 -- Forever Enthralled | Ryuichi Tanaka
2007 -- Sukiyaki Western Django | Yoichi
2007 -- Nightmare Detective | Detective Wakamiya
2006 -- Sakuran | Seiji
2006 -- Crickets | Taichi
2006 -- Strawberry Shortcakes | Kikuchi
2006 -- Green Mind, Metal Bats | Ishioka
2006 -- Big Bang Love, Juvenile A | Shiro Kazuki
2005 -- Aegis | Don-chol
2005 -- Synesthesia | Takashi Nohara
2004 -- Black Kiss | Tatsuo Sorayama
2004 -- 69 | Adama
2003 -- Karaoke Terror | Sugioka
2003 -- SHORT FILMS |
2002 -- Drive | Kodama Makato
2002 -- Tokyo 10+01 | Fake
2001 -- Red Shadow | Akakage
2001 -- Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius | Kenichi Satomi
2001 -- Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE | Self
2000 -- Battle Royale | Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
2000 -- Making of 'Battle Royale' | Self
2000 -- Monday | Mitsuo Kondo
2000 -- Space Travelers | Makoto Fujimoto
2000 -- School Ghost Story: Curse Special | Satô
1999 -- Railroad Man | Toshiyuki Yoshioka
1999 -- Adrenaline Drive | Satoru Suzuki
1998 -- Innocent World | Takuya
1996 -- Making-of Kids Return | Himself
1996 -- Kids Return | Shinji
1993 -- Rex: A Dinosaur's Story |
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