Masanobu Ando

Biography

Masanobu Ando is a Japanese actor and director born on May 19, 1975, in Kawasaki, Japan. He won the Film Academy of Japan's Best New Actor Award for his role in Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return (1996). Notably, he played the infamous psychopathic killer Kazuo Kiriyama in Battle Royale (2000) and directed his first film, Adagietto. Sehr langsam (2003), starring Japanese actress Kumiko Aso.