Masanobu Ando



Masanobu Ando is a Japanese actor.
Ando has appeared in films such as Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return, Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale, Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django, and Chen Kaige's Forever Enthralled. He also appears in Tsai Ming-liang's award-winning film No No Sleep, in a series of statically filmed urban scenes without dialogue.
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Career

When Masanobu Ando completed school his direction towards a specific career path was not immediately concrete. In 1994 he was approached by a talent scout on the street and was offered an acting role, which began a new journey for Ando and his acting career. Ando's career took off after starring in his first film, Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return, which became one of Kitano's most successful films in Japan. He played the role of Shinji, a high school student who gave up school to pursue boxing with his best friend. Ando became a popular young actor in Japan during the late 1990s, but his career slowed down in the 2000s, when he took fewer roles and was only in one or two films per year. He is most famous in the West for his psychopath-killer role of Kazuo Kiriyama in Kinji Fukusaku's Battle Royale, a blockbuster dystopia film, which managed to be one of the most famous blood and gore films of the decade.
In 1998 he visited Russia to film for a Japanese show, Seinen wa Kouya wo Mezasu, where he travelled from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Ando co-starred in Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Juvenile A with Ryuhei Matsuda. He played a supporting role in Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective. Ando also appeared in Katsuhito Ishii's Smuggler.
He has taken part in the Toronto Film Festival.
Around 2016, the twentieth anniversary of his entry into the film industry, Ando made a comeback and starred in several films, including Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation, Gonin Saga, and Sadako vs. Kayako.

Personal life

Ando is married and has two children.

Filmography

Film

Rex: A Dinosaur's Story Kids Return - ShinjiInnocent World Adrenaline Drive - Satoru SuzukiPoppoya - Toshiyuki YoshiokaMonday - Mitsuo Kondo, the dead manSpace Travelers - Makoto Fujimoto Battle Royale - Kazuo Kiriyama - otoko 6-banTransparent: Tribute to a Sad Genius - Kenichi SatomiRed Shadow - AkakageDrive - Kodama MakatoKaraoke Terror - SugiokaTokyo 10+01 - FakeShort Films Sonic Four: Peace Vibe 69 - Tadashi "Adama" YamadaBlack Kiss - Tatsuo SorayamaSynesthesia - Takashi NoharaAegis - Don-cholBig Bang Love, Juvenile A - Shiro KazukiGreen Mind, Metal Bats - IshiokaCrickets - TaichiStrawberry Shortcakes - KikuchiNightmare Detective - Detective WakamiyaSakuran - SeijiSukiyaki Western Django - YoichiForever Enthralled - Ryuichi TanakaThe Butcher, the Chef and the Swordsman Seediq Bale - Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clanSmuggler - SpineR-18 Bungaku-sho Vol.1: Jijojibaku no Watashi - YamuraPetal Dance - NaotoNo No Sleep Gonin Saga - Seiji ShikineLe coeur régulier - JiroSadako vs. Kayako - Spiritual Medium KyozoA Flower Aflame - Yasunori OchiSailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation - Hajime GakutoStill Life of Memories - HarumaLenses on Her Heart - Yuji KibaCode Blue the Movie - Hiroki ShinkaiDay and Night - Kenichi KitamuraThe Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill - SuzukiZokki Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning - Takasugi ShinsakuThe Setting Sun - Jiro UeharaMy Brother, The Android and Me Thousand and One Nights, YōjiRohan at the Louvre, Ryūnosuke TatsumiThe Yin Yang Master Zero, Heguri no SadafumiStay Mum, Yasuo InukaiCity Hunter, Hideyuki Makimura

Television

My Friend's Lover - Tomoya KashiwagiWhen the Saints Go Marching In - Ren TakaharaBlue Days - Juri SawakiSeinen wa Kouya o Mezasu - JunGakko no Kaidan: Haru no Noroi Special - Satô Higashino Keigo Mysteries - Bito Shigehisa / Akiyama YuichiCode Blue Your Turn to Kill Awaiting Kirin - Shibata KatsuieShip of Theseus The Sun Stands Still: The Eclipse Fishbowl Wives - TakuyaHouse of the Owl - Ichiro OgamiPassing the Reins - Hiroshi HironakaChiruran: Shinsengumi Requiem - Tanaka Shinbei

Awards