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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

The Royal Family
as Hiroshi Hironaka

Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai

City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura

House of the Owl
as Ichiro Ogami

The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri

Destiny
as Okuda Takashi

My Second Aoharu
as Hinata Shogo

Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi

The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara

Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura

Pandora's Fruit
as Caen Karl

Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband]

My Brother, The Android And Me

Gossip
as Masaki Niwa

Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
as Kotaro Higashi

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi

The Ideal Man
as Mitsuyasu

ZOKKI

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki

Sakura

DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
as Naoya Date(伊達 直哉)

The Sun Does Not Move
as Osamu Sakurai

The Ship of Theseus
as Mikio Kimura

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」

Voice
as Kyosuke Kuon

Your Turn to Kill
as Go Sano

それを愛とまちがえるから

Day and Night
as Kenichi Kitamura

Cheers to Miki Clinic
as Miki Shouichirou

Black Scandal

Lenses on Her Heart
as Yuji Kiba

Love and Fortune
as Tsuchiya Jo

Code Blue: The Movie
as Hiroki Shinkai

Still Life of Memories
as Haruma

An Emblem Dedicated To You
as Kamimura Ren

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
as Haruki Kagawa

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
as Hajime Gakuto

A Flower Aflame
as Yasunori Ochi

Sadako vs. Kayako
as Keizō Tokiwa

Kokoro
as Jiro

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
as Yasui

Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
as Osako Tatsuya

Gonin Saga
as Seiji Shikine

No No Sleep
as Japanese Man

Beautiful 2015

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

Petal Dance
as Naoto

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
as Shuji Yamura

Keigo Higashino Mysteries

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Smuggler
as Spine

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
as The Mute

Forever Enthralled
as Ryuichi Tanaka

Code Blue
as Shinkai Hiroki

Sukiyaki Western Django
as Yoichi

Nightmare Detective
as Detective Wakamiya

Sakuran
as Seiji

Crickets
as Taichi