Masanobu Ando Trailers
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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
Most Popular Masanobu Ando Trailers
Total trailers found: 60
06 August 2016
When Sonoko enters a traditional Japanese arranged marriage with Amamiya facilitated by her parents the resulting union is loveless including the functional and goal-oriented sex.
16 December 2000
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to kill each other under the revolutionary "Battle Royale" act.
05 June 1999
A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter.
21 July 2018
Haruma is an up-and-coming photographer who is getting full exposure at a photo exhibition in a Tokyo photo gallery.
24 April 2024
An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death.
01 October 2004
Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi.
11 February 2006
An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility.
05 December 2008
The epic story Mei Lanfang, who overcame the prejudice against artists in 1930s China to become the country's greatest opera star.
04 June 2021
Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a huge burden in her heart, his life will change forever.
27 July 2018
A medical team is dispatched to the patients on a helicopter to provide medical care in the field as soon as possible.
05 March 2016
Izumi Hoshi is senior in high school, but she led a small yakuza group in her past. After killing her uncle's murderer with a machine gun, her yakuza group disbanded.
01 March 2005
Shin is a professional voyeur who provides live camera feeds of everything from the street corner to the public toilet.
29 April 2000
A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there.
11 August 2001
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trained to work in shadows, gather information and defeat the enemy to build a world of peace.
30 July 2005
The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group.
23 September 2006
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.
17 March 2001
A young, good-hearted doctor Kenichi suffers from a rare syndrome whereby his feelings cannot be hidden.
07 December 2006
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves.
03 January 2017
Kazuya Takajo was a promising soccer player. At the age of 23, he was selected for the national A football team and he bought a house to live with his fiancé Miki Nakagawa.
15 September 2018
Akemi is unable to get over the death of his girlfriend, but a book leads to his encounter with Akane, a woman with a wonderful smile.
18 February 1999
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money.
03 August 2002
A group of 11 criminals are trapped in a warehouse with bracelets. The 11 learn that they are part of a game where the prize is 3 million yen and a clean record.
08 April 2000
Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police.
08 March 2003
Omnibus of six short films: Return; Ken-do star; Hana to oji-san; Adagietto Sehr, langsam; Nakayoki koto wa yoki koto ka na; Slow is Beautiful.
24 August 2002
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van.
05 February 2021
Akira is the legendary killer known as the Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner, Yoko, as ordinary siblings.
18 June 2016
A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted houi
26 May 2023
The blackest and most evil painting in the world. In pursuit of its mystery, Rohan Kishibe, a manga artist with a special power, visits the Louvre in France.
15 September 2007
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
13 January 2001
The late Kinji Fukasaku directed "Battle Royale" - his 60th movie - at the age of 70. This film follows the shooting of the film.
08 November 2003
One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him.
23 November 2006
Kaoru, a wealthy woman whose youth is fading, abandons the hustle and bustle of the city to live a peaceful life in a house on the coast.
10 July 2004
Hoping to catch a girl's attention, high school students Ken and Adama cook up an ambitious plan. They plan a festival that combines film, theater, and rock music, and develop their project into a school road block.
31 December 1996
Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.
28 March 2000
Japanese horror film with four segments.
27 July 1996
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang.
03 October 1998
High school student Ami was born through a fertilization technique. Her brother is developmentally challenged and is immature for his age.
10 May 2012
[INTERNATIONAL VERSION] Mouna Rudo was born and raised among the Seediq people, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan, and as he grew to be a man he became a member of the Seediq Bale, a courageous band of native warriors.
19 April 2013
Long-time friends Jinko and Motoko hear that their college friend Miki has jumped into the ocean. They are joined by Haraki, who Jinko happens to meet, and head by car on a journey to see Miki.
01 December 2000
An abundance of footage from the shooting of Battle Royale and cast and crew discussions.
19 April 2024
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon.
30 September 2011
After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans.
09 September 2011
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them.
03 July 1993
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
30 March 2016
After her brother's death, Alice leave France for Japan and takes refuge in a small village just above the cliffs.
13 January 2007
When a number of suicide victims slash themselves in their sleep, detective Keiko Kirishima is called to investigate.
26 September 2015
Seiji is a third generation "Gosei kai" gang member. He works to build up the group's strength. Meanwhile, a journalist investigates a case that occurred 19 years ago.
17 March 2011
A tale of revenge, honor and greed follows a group of misfits that gets involved with a kitchen cleaver made from the top five swords of the martial arts world in this wild and brash action comedy.
22 October 2011
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
22 October 2016
A classmate from Ushijima's middle school days, Takemoto, shows up. He was a kind man, but now is jobless and without a home.
21 April 2015
In the wee hours of winter a night train travels through a sleepless city. This is a panorama of a Buddhist monk's journey through Tokyo at night.
02 April 2021
Five loosely connected storylines concerning the secrets and lies, the fears and tears, and the puerile potty jokes that punctuate the characters' daily (and in one eerie case, nightly) encounters.
26 August 2006
The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high school when he played on the baseball team; his former teammate Ishioka, who is now a policeman because of an elbow injury; and baseball fanatic Eiko, a hopeless alcoholic who spends more of her time drunk than sober.
01 January 2021
The protagonist has been secretly meeting with his friend A's lover. But then A suddenly dies. The friendship between the three, which had seemed to be going well, gradually becomes distorted with the death of A.
26 January 2019
A man suicides causing ruin for his family, reasons are unknown, but his son will decide to take revenge after a succesion of events.
07 June 2024
Chisako Satoya, a writer, and her father, Kozo, had a long-standing feud and had been living apart for a long time.
06 October 2022
Tomiko, a middle-aged woman, waits patiently for her husband, who disappeared thirty years ago, to return.
07 January 2022
A lonely researcher doubting his own existence builds an android which looks exactly like himself.
02 February 2013
Yuria discovered the pleasure of tying herself up in her university days, and resumes the pursuit in order to relieve work stress.
