Masanobu Ando
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
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Director: Yuichi Satoh
Writers: Tatsuro Mishima,
Cast: Asuka Hanamura, Ayame Misaki, Fumino Kimura, Isao Hashizume, Masanobu Ando, Misato Morita, Moemi Katayama, Ryohei Suzuki, Takaya Sakoda, Tetta Sugimoto,
Director: Keishi Otomo
Writers: Keishi Otomo,
Cast: Issey Takahashi, Kasumi Arimura, Kazuki Kitamura, Masanobu Ando, Nijiro Murakami, Shima Onishi, Soko Wada, Takeru Satoh, Towa Araki, Yosuke Eguchi,
Director: Wei Te-sheng
Writers: Wei Te-sheng,
Cast: Da-Ching, Irene Luo, Landy Wen, Masanobu Ando, Nolay Piho, Pawan Nawi, Sabu Kawahara, Umin Boya, Vivian Hsu, Yakau Kuhon,
Director: Kinji Fukasaku
Writers: Kenta Fukasaku,
Cast: Aki Maeda, Chiaki Kuriyama, Ko Shibasaki, Masanobu Ando, Sousuke Takaoka, Takashi Tsukamoto, Takeshi Kitano, Taro Yamamoto, Tatsuya Fujiwara, Yukihiro Kotani,
Director: SABU
Writers: SABU,
Cast: Akaji Maro, Hideki Noda, Hijiri Kojima, Masanobu Ando, Nanako Okochi, Naomi Nishida, Ren Osugi, Sansei Shiomi, Shinichi Tsutsumi, Yasuko Matsuyuki,
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Writers: Takeshi Kitano,
Cast: Hatsuo Yamaya, Ken Kaneko, Leo Morimoto, Masanobu Ando, Michisuke Kashiwaya, Mitsuko Oka, Moro Morooka, Ryo Ishibashi, Susumu Terajima, Yuko Daike,