Acting
Masanobu Ando
Born May 19, 1975 · Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan (age 51)
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 chall…
Known For
Battle Royale · 2000Battle Royale
★ 7.32000
MovieDramaThriller
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.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning · 2021Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning
★ 7.72021
MovieActionAdventure
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.
City Hunter · 2024City Hunter
★ 6.52024
MovieActionComedy
An exceptional marksman and hopeless playboy, private eye Ryo Saeba reluctantly forms an alliance with his late partner's sister to investigate his death.
Kids Return · 1996Kids Return
★ 6.91996
MovieDramaCrime
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. However, the world is a tough place.
Sadako vs. Kayako · 2016Sadako vs. Kayako
★ 5.62016
MovieHorror
A girl, Yūri Kurahashi, after watching a cursed videotape together with her friend in a haunted house, becomes trapped in a conflict between the two murderous ghosts: Sadako Yamamura and Kayako Saeki.
Sukiyaki Western Django · 2007Sukiyaki Western Django
★ 6.22007
MovieAdventureAction
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.
Sakuran · 2006Sakuran
★ 6.52006
MovieHistoryDrama
Kiyoha rises from the lowly courtesan ranks to the high class position of Oiran in the steamy red-light district of Yoshiwara. She is determined to stand on her own two feet and live life as she pleased.
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge · 2011Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge
★ 8.12011
MovieActionDrama
After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be "Seediq Bale" or "real men." Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale - Part 2: The Rainbow Bridge is Part two of the two-part, four-hour Taiwanese edition of the film Warriors of the Rainbow.
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シリーズ・横溝正史短編集 · 2016シリーズ・横溝正史短編集
2016
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