Masanobu ando biography
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Masanobu Ando (安藤政信, Andō Masanobu?) is a Japanese actor and director. He was born on May 19, 1975 in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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 (Ao no jidai, 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 a collection released by Peacedelic 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 photogr
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Masanobu Ando (1957 - )
Potter
Born 1957, Tajimi, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Presides over Galerie Momogusa. Ceramic artist and sculptor. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Sculpture. After working as a contemporary artist, he moved into pottery production. Produces more than 1,000 types of standard everyday tableware for both Japanese and Western use, as well as tea ceremony utensils and sculptural works. His 2018 book 'The Craft of Neither' contains a discussion of his work and an essay on his 36-year career in ceramics.”When I digested the work which include the perspective of the outside of crafts, my works changed as if it was in the element. " Ando's work is driven by a curiosity that easily transcends the boundaries of other fields, such as art, music and design. At Galerie Momogusa, which he runs, he displays and introduces not only his own vessels and produced crafts, but also ancient and modern crafts, antiques and art in all directions, making use of old private houses. He is also expanding his presentation to overseas and proposes a new tea ceremony and Chinese tea.
1957 Born in Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture
1981 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Sculpture
1984 Begins working as an artist.
1989
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