10 Facts About Masanobu Ando

Masanobu Ando appears in Tsai Ming-liang's award-winning film No No Sleep, in a series of statically filmed urban scenes without dialogue.

When Masanobu Ando completed school his direction towards a specific career path was not immediately concrete.

Masanobu Ando's career took off after starring in his first film, Takeshi Kitano's Kids Return, which became one of Kitano's most successful films in Japan.

Masanobu Ando played the role of Shinji, a high school student who gave up school to pursue boxing with his best friend.

Masanobu Ando became a popular young actor in Japan during the late 1990s, but his career slowed down in the 2000s, when he took fewer roles and was only in one or two films per year.

Masanobu Ando is most famous in the West for his psychopath-killer role of Kazuo Kiriyama in Kinji Fukusaku's Battle Royale, a blockbuster dystopia film, which managed to be one of the most famous blood and gore films of the decade.

Masanobu Ando co-starred in Takashi Miike's Big Bang Love, Juvenile A with Ryuhei Matsuda.

Masanobu Ando played a supporting role in Shinya Tsukamoto's Nightmare Detective.

Masanobu Ando has taken part in the Toronto Film Festival.

Around 2016, the twentieth anniversary of his entry into the film industry, Masanobu Ando made a comeback and starred in several films, including Sailor Suit and Machine Gun: Graduation, Gonin Saga, and Sadako vs Kayako.