
Acting
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 ro…

City Hunter
as Hideyuki Makimura

The Yin Yang Master Zero
as Sadafumi Heguri

Stay Mum
as Yasuo Inukai

Rohan at the Louvre
as Ryunosuke Tatsumi

My Brother, The Android And Me

The Setting Sun
as Jiro Uehara

Thousand and One Nights
as Yoji Tamura

Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
as Shinsaku Takasugi

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
as Suzuki

ZOKKI

The Royal Family
as Hiroshi Hironaka · 10 ep.

House of the Owl
as Ichiro Ogami · 10 ep.

Destiny
as Okuda Takashi · 9 ep.

My Second Aoharu
as Hinata Shogo · 10 ep.

Fishbowl Wives
as Takuya Hiraga [Sakura's husband] · 8 ep.

Pandora's Fruit
as Caen Karl · 16 ep.

Gossip
as Masaki Niwa · 11 ep.

Tokyo Houchi Shokudou
as Kotaro Higashi · 8 ep.

The Ideal Man
as Mitsuyasu · 8 ep.

The Ship of Theseus
as Mikio Kimura · 10 ep.
City Hunter
2024