Masanobu Ando

ActorDirector May 19 (age 50) Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan 1993–2025 (32 year career)

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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

Film

Battle Royale

Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

Film

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

Shinsaku Takasugi

Film

Kids Return

Shinji

Film

Sukiyaki Western Django

Yoichi

Film

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Film

City Hunter

Hideyuki Makimura

Film

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

Film

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

Suzuki

Filmography

Acting (88)

Movies (62)

City Hunter

2024

as Hideyuki Makimura

6.5

The Yin Yang Master Zero

as Sadafumi Heguri

Stay Mum

as Yasuo Inukai

Rohan at the Louvre

as Ryunosuke Tatsumi

The Setting Sun

as Jiro Uehara

Thousand and One Nights

2022

as Yoji Tamura

5.7

My Brother, The Android And Me

2022

THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

2021

as Suzuki

7.0

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

as Shinsaku Takasugi

ZOKKI

Sakura,

Day and Night

as Kenichi Kitamura

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」

2019

Code Blue: The Movie

2018

as Hiroki Shinkai

6.7

Still Life of Memories

as Haruma

Lenses on Her Heart

as Yuji Kiba

An Emblem Dedicated To You

as Kamimura Ren

Sadako vs. Kayako

as Keizō Tokiwa

A Flower Aflame

as Yasunori Ochi

Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation

2016

as Yasui

6.0

Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final

as Hajime Gakuto

Kokoro

as Jiro

Gonin Saga

as Seiji Shikine

No No Sleep

as Japanese Man

Beautiful 2015

Petal Dance

as Naoto

Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope

2013

as Shuji Yamura

1.0

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

2012

as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

8.0

Smuggler

2011

as Spine

6.4

The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman

2011

as The Mute

5.4

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag

2011

as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

7.3

Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge

2011

as Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan

8.0

Forever Enthralled

2008

as Ryuichi Tanaka

6.2

Sukiyaki Western Django

2007

as Yoichi

6.2

Nightmare Detective

2007

as Detective Wakamiya

Sakuran

as Seiji

Crickets

as Taichi

Strawberry Shortcakes

2006

as Kikuchi

5.6

Green Mind, Metal Bats

2006

as Ishioka

6.6

Big Bang Love, Juvenile A

as Shiro Kazuki

Aegis

as Don-chol

Synesthesia

as Takashi Nohara

Black Kiss

as Tatsuo Sorayama

as Adama

SHORT FILMS

Karaoke Terror

as Sugioka

Drive

as Kodama Makato

Tokyo 10+01

as Fake

Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius

as Kenichi Satomi

Red Shadow

as Akakage

Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE

2001

as Self

Battle Royale

2000

as Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)

7.3

Space Travelers

2000

as Makoto Fujimoto

5.9

School Ghost Story: Curse Special

2000

as Satô

8.8

Making of 'Battle Royale'

2000

as Self

Monday

2000

as Mitsuo Kondo

6.9

Railroad Man

1999

as Toshiyuki Yoshioka

Adrenaline Drive

as Satoru Suzuki

Innocent World

as Takuya

Making-of Kids Return

as Himself

Kids Return

as Shinji

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story

1993

5.1

Television (26)

The Royal Family

as Hiroshi Hironaka

Destiny

as Okuda Takashi

House of the Owl

as Ichiro Ogami

My Second Aoharu

as Hinata Shogo

Fishbowl Wives

as Takuya Hiraga

Pandora's Fruit

as Caen Karl

Gossip

as Masaki Niwa

Tokyo Houchi Shokudou

as Kotaro Higashi

The Ideal Man

as Mitsuyasu

The Ship of Theseus

as Mikio Kimura

The Sun Does Not Move

2020

as Osamu Sakurai

7.9

DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-

as Naoya Date（伊達直哉）

Your Turn to Kill

as Go Sano

Voice

as Kyosuke Kuon

Cheers to Miki Clinic

2019

as Miki Shouichirou

それを愛とまちがえるから

Love and Fortune

as Tsuchiya Jo

Black Scandal

シリーズ・横溝正史短編集

as Haruki Kagawa

Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!

2016

as Osako Tatsuya

6.0

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

2015

8.7

Keigo Higashino Mysteries

Code Blue

as Hiroki Shinkai

When the Saints Go Marching In

as Takahara Ren

Blue Days

as Shuri Sawaki

Tomodachi no Koibito

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Sakura,

2021

Director

SHORT FILMS

2003

Director