Masanobu Ando
Рождение : 1975-05-19, Kanagawa, Japan
История
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
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Japanese man
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Spine
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Genji Kojima, Constable at Tonbara clan
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Detective Wakamiya
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Seiji
История восхождения маленькой деревенской девочки на пьедестал красавицы Хигураши-ойран, которой восхищались все без исключения. С детсва она обладала не простым нравом, что вызывало много сложностей и провоцировало появление завистников и недоброжелателей. Но, не смотря на это, красавица-куртизанка смогла подняться до статуса ойран, оставив позади всех конкуренток. Постепенно, она становится самой популярной женщиной Квартала. Богатый и влиятельный самурай изъявляет желание выкупить ее и сделать своей женой. О чем еще может мечтать куртизанка? Но вот есть одна проблема…. она беременна и с ребенком расставаться не хочет.
Taichi
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Kikuchi
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Ishioka
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Shiro Kazuki
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Don-chol
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Takashi Nohara
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Tatsuo Sorayama
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Adama
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Sugioka
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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. Third installment of "SF" series produced by Hiroyuki Nakano.
Director
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Kodama Makato
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Fake
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Akakage
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Self
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Self
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Japanese film directed by Ten Shimoyama.
Himself
Making of Takeshi Kitano's movie Kids Return.
Shinji
Синдзи и Масару не принадлежали к числу самых прилежных учеников. Они были из тех ребят, которых даже спустя долгие годы после окончания школы многие из нас вспоминают со страхом. Любимым делом неразлучной парочки было издеваться над учителями, изводить одноклассников и отбирать у них деньги. Преподаватели махнули рукой на нелегкое дело перевоспитания юных оболтусов, но ни что не длится вечно. Теперь Синдзи стал боксером, а Масару — якудза.
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
