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Masanobu Ando

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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

Born

Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan on 19th May 1975

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Keigo Higashino Mysteries
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Code Blue
Hiroki Shinkai
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Pandora's Fruit
Caen Karl
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The Sun Does Not Move
Osamu Sakurai
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Love and Fortune
Tsuchiya Jo
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Destiny
Okuda Takashi
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House of the Owl
Ichiro Ogami
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シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
Haruki Kagawa
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The Ideal Man
Mitsuyasu
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My Second Aoharu
Hinata Shogo
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The Ship of Theseus
Mikio Kimura
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Gossip
Masaki Niwa
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Voice
Kyosuke Kuon
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Tomodachi no Koibito
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When the Saints Go Marching In
Takahara Ren
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Fishbowl Wives
Takuya Hiraga
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Your Turn To Kill
Go Sano
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DIVER -Special Investigation Unit-
Naoya Date(伊達 直哉)
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Black Scandal
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Battle Royale
Kazuo Kiriyama (Boy #6)
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City Hunter
Hideyuki Makimura
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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
Shinsaku Takasugi
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Blue Days
Shuri Sawaki
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Koi no sanriku ressha kon de iko!
Osako Tatsuya
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Kids Return
Shinji
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Sadako vs. Kayako
Keizō Tokiwa
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The Yin Yang Master Zero
Sadafumi Heguri
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THE FABLE: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
Suzuki
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Cheers to Miki Clinic
Miki Shouichirou
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Rohan at the Louvre
Ryunosuke Tatsumi
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Sakuran
Seiji
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Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
Kotaro Higashi
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 1: The Sun Flag
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
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A Flower Aflame
Yasunori Ochi
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Sukiyaki Western Django
Yoichi
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Railroad Man
Toshiyuki Yoshioka
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Smuggler
Spine
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Still Life of Memories
Haruma
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
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Adrenaline Drive
Satoru Suzuki
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Monday
Mitsuo Kondo
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69
Adama
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Gonin Saga
Seiji Shikine
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Red Shadow
Akakage
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Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation
Yasui
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Space Travelers
Makoto Fujimoto
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Aegis
Don-chol
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Code Blue: The Movie
Hiroki Shinkai
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Thousand and One Nights
Yoji Tamura
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Ushijima the Loan Shark The Final
Hajime Gakuto
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Forever Enthralled
Ryuichi Tanaka
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Strawberry Shortcakes
Kikuchi
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Karaoke Terror
Sugioka
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The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman
The Mute
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Nightmare Detective
Detective Wakamiya
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ZOKKI
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Petal Dance
Naoto
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Transparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius
Kenichi Satomi
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Black Kiss
Tatsuo Sorayama
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それを愛とまちがえるから
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Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
Shiro Kazuki
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Crickets
Taichi
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Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
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No No Sleep
Japanese Man
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Lenses on Her Heart
Yuji Kiba
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Stay Mum
Yasuo Inukai
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Innocent World
Takuya
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An Emblem Dedicated To You
Kamimura Ren
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Day and Night
Kenichi Kitamura
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Drive
Kodama Makato
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Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
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Kokoro
Jiro
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Green Mind, Metal Bats
Ishioka
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Self-Bondage: All Tied Up with My Own Rope
Shuji Yamura
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School Ghost Story: Curse Special
Satô
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The Setting Sun
Jiro Uehara
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Synesthesia
Takashi Nohara
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My Brother, The Android And Me
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Making of 'Battle Royale'
Self
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Shooting Film is Battleground: Making of BATTLE ROYALE
Self
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Tokyo 10+01
Fake
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SHORT FILMS
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Sakura,
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Making-of Kids Return
Himself