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Masanobu Ando
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
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 A…
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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
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2026
真田十勇士 SHADOWS OF THE TEN NINJA
TV show Sanada Yukimura
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2025
The Royal Family
TV show Hiroshi Hironaka
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2024
Stay Mum
Movie Yasuo Inukai
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2024
City Hunter
Movie Hideyuki Makimura
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2024
House of the Owl
TV show Ichiro Ogami
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2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
Movie Sadafumi Heguri
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2024
Destiny
TV show Okuda Takashi
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2023
My Second Aoharu
TV show Hinata Shogo
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2023
Rohan at the Louvre
Movie Ryunosuke Tatsumi
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2022
The Setting Sun
Movie Jiro Uehara
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2022
Thousand and One Nights
Movie Yoji Tamura
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2022
Pandora's Fruit
TV show Caen Karl
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2022
Fishbowl Wives
TV show Takuya Hiraga
- 2022
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2022
Gossip
TV show Masaki Niwa
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2021
Tokyo Houchi Shokudo
TV show Kotaro Higashi
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2021
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Movie Shinsaku Takasugi
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2021
The Ideal Man
TV show Mitsuyasu
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2021
ZOKKI
Movie
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2021
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Movie Suzuki
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2021
Sakura
Movie
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2020
DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
TV show Naoya Date（伊達 直哉）
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2020
The Sun Does Not Move
TV show Osamu Sakurai
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2020
The Ship of Theseus
TV show Mikio Kimura
- 2019
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2019
Voice
TV show Kyosuke Kuon
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2019
Your Turn to Kill
TV show Go Sano
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2019
それを愛とまちがえるから
TV show
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2019
Day and Night
Movie Kenichi Kitamura
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2019
Cheers to Miki Clinic
TV show Miki Shouichirou
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2018
Black Scandal
TV show
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2018
Lenses on Her Heart
Movie Yuji Kiba
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2018
Love and Fortune
TV show Tsuchiya Jo
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2018
Code Blue: The Movie
Movie Hiroki Shinkai
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2018
Still Life of Memories
Movie Haruma
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2017
An Emblem Dedicated To You
Movie Kamimura Ren
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2016
シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
TV show Haruki Kagawa
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2016
Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Movie Hajime Gakuto
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2016
A Flower Aflame
Movie Yasunori Ochi
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2016
Sadako vs. Kayako
Movie Keizō Tokiwa
