Masanobu Andō 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 , bank robber , doctor , ninja and samurai , even a corpse . 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 . He also played an art forger in the... low-budget Battle Royale parody Tokyo 10+01 . 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.
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| Birthdate: | May 19, 1975 |
| Birthplace: | Kawasaki |
| Age: | 37 |
| Also known as: | Andō Masanobu, Masanobu Andō, 安藤 政信 |