Masanobu Ando
Masanobu Ando was born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on May 19th, 1975 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 49, Masanobu Ando biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Masanobu Ando (born May 19, 1975) is a Japanese actor. Ando has appeared in films including Takeshi Kitano's Return (1996), Kinji Fukasaku's Battle Royale (2000), Takashi Miike's Sukiyaki Western Django (2007), and Chen Kaige's Forever Enthralled (2008).
In a series of statically shot urban scenes without dialogue, he appears in Tsai Ming-liang's award-winning film No Sleep (2015).
Personal life
Ando is married and has two children.
Career
Masanobu Ando's graduation, his route to a particular career path was not concrete. He was approached by a talent scout on the street in 1994 and was offered an acting job, which gave Ando and his acting career a new challenge. Ando's career took off after appearing in his first film, Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return (1996), which became one of Kitano's most successful films in Japan. He played Shinji, a high school student who left school to pursue boxing with his best friend. Ando made a name for himself in Japan in the late 1990s, but his career slowed in the 2000s, when he fewer films and was only in one or two films per year. He is best known in the West for his psychopathic role of Kazuo Kiriyama in Kinji Fukusaku's Battle Royale (2000), a blockbuster dystopia film that was one of the decade's most popular blood and gore films.
Seinen wa Kouya wo Mezasu, a Japanese film that travelled from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk on the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1998, he went from Vladivostok to Khabarovsk. Ando appeared in Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Juvenile A with Ryuhei Matsuda. In Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective, he appeared as a supporting actor. Ando appeared in Katsuhito Ishii's Smuggler. He has appeared in the Toronto Film Festival.
Ando made a comeback and appeared in many films, including Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation, Gonin Saga, and Sadako vs. Kayako, on the twentieth anniversary of his entry into film, in 2016.
Awards
- 1996: Hochi Film Award – Newcomer Award (Kids Return)
- 1996: Golden Arrow Award – Newcomer Award (film) (Kids Return)
- 1996: Nikkan Sports Film Award – Best Newcomer (Kids Return)
- 1996: Japanese Movie Critics Awards – Best Newcomer (Kids Return)
- 1996: Kinema Junpo Award – Best New Actor (Kids Return)
- 1997: Japan Academy Prize – Newcomer of the Year (Kids Return)
- 1997: Mainichi Film Awards – New Talent Award (Kids Return)
- 1997: Tokyo Sports Film Award – Best Newcomer (Kids Return)
- 1997: Yokohama Film Festival – Best New Talent (Kids Return)