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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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Hunter (2024) | Hideyuki Makimura | 7.3 | |
| 2 | Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (2021) | Shinsaku Takasugi | 7.5 | |
| 3 | The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021) | Suzuki | - | - |
| 4 | Still Life of Memories (2018) | Haruma | - | - |
| 5 | Code Blue: The Movie (2018) | Hiroki Shinkai | 7 | |
| 6 | Sadako vs. Kayako (2016) | Keizō Tokiwa | 6.7 | |
| 7 | Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation (2016) | Yasui | - | - |
| 8 | The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman (2011) | The Mute | 6.3 | |
| 9 | Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag (2011) | Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan | - | - |
| 10 | Nightmare Detective (2007) | Detective Wakamiya | 6.5 | |
| 11 | Sukiyaki Western Django (2007) | Yoichi | 7.1 | |
| 12 | Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (2006) | Shiro Kazuki | 5 | |
| 13 | Synesthesia (2005) | Takashi Nohara | - | - |
| 14 | Monday (2000) | Mitsuo Kondo | 5 | |
| 15 | Battle Royale (2000) | Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6) | 7.5 | |
| 16 | Adrenaline Drive (1999) | Satoru Suzuki | 6 | |
| 17 | Kids Return (1996) | Shinji | 7.5 |
