Masanobu Ando (Actor)

Reviews of Masanobu Ando Movies

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Movies starring Masanobu Ando have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 63%.

Battle Royale - released in 2000 - is Masanobu Ando's highest rated movie, with a score of 79% based on 807 reviews.

The lowest rated film from Masanobu Ando is The Butcher, the Chef, and the Swordsman - released in 2011 - with a score of 39% based on 24 reviews.

Actor Biography

Masanobu Andō  (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.

Andō 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 Andō'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, Andō 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").

Masanobu Ando has acted in films with Yutaka Matsushige, Renji Ishibashi, Kanji Tsuda and Ren Osugi.

Masanobu Ando has worked with these film directors: Takashi Miike, Hitoshi Yazaki, Kinji Fukasaku and Koji Shiraishi.