Cast: Masanobu Ando
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Masanobu Ando. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Poppoya: Railroad Man
1999 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan
Direction Yasuo Furuhata
Cast Ken Takakura · Shinobu Otake · Ryoko Hirosue · Hidetaka Yoshioka
Plot A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line is scheduled to be closed, he...
7.3
34 votes
7.3
34 votes
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale Part 2
2011 · Movie · 132 min. · Taiwan
Direction Wei Te-sheng
Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Umin Boya · Lin Yuanjie
7.0
85 votes
7.0
85 votes
Kids Return
1996 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan
Direction Takeshi Kitano
Cast Masanobu Ando · Ken Kaneko · Leo Morimoto · Hatsuo Yamatani
Plot Two school-age chums, Shinji and Masaru, spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates, playing pranks, and sneaking to the movies. They decide to drop out and gain their...
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2011 · Movie · 135 min. · Taiwan
Direction Wei Te-sheng
Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Ma Chih-Hsiang · Lin Yuanjie
Plot An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving...
6.8
113 votes
6.8
113 votes
Monday
2000 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Yasuko Matsuyuki · Masanobu Ando · Nanako Ôkôchi
Plot A salaryman wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before - attending a funeral, dating but...
6.8
375 votes
6.8
375 votes
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
2011 · Movie · 144 min. · Taiwan
Direction Wei Te-sheng
Cast Lin Ching-Tai · Da-Ching · Ma Chih-Hsiang · Lin Yuanjie
Plot hecho real ocurrido en 1930, durante la dominación japonesa de la isla de Formosa (el Taiwán actual). Durante más de tres décadas, Mouna Rudo vio cómo su tribu Seediq soportaba...
6.7
148 votes
6.7
148 votes
Petal Dance
2013 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Ishikawa
Cast Aoi Miyazaki · Shiori Kutsuna · Sakura Ando · Kazue Fukiishi
Plot Four women, who have their own different sorrows, embark on a road trip. They look back at their past and restart their lives.
6.6
60 votes
6.6
60 votes
Drive
2002 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Direction SABU
Cast Shin'ichi Tsutsumi · Kou Shibasaki · Ren Osugi · Masanobu Ando
Plot In Drive, Tsutsumi is a salaryman, Asakura, who is carjacked and kidnapped by three bank robbers and ordered to pursue a fourth man, who has escaped with the loot and...
6.6
35 votes
6.6
35 votes
Battle Royale
2000 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan
Direction Kinji Fukasaku
Cast Aki Maeda · Tatsuya Fujiwara · Chiaki Kuriyama · Taro Yamamoto
Plot 42 delinquent students. 3 days. One deserted Island. Welcome to Battle Royale. A group of delinquent students from a Japanese high school have been forced by a legislation to compete...
6.5
35K votes
6.5
35K votes
Rurouni Kenshin: Final Chapter Part II - The Beginning
2021 · Movie · 137 min. · Japan
Direction Keishi Ohtomo
Cast Takeru Satō · Kasumi Arimura · Issey Takahashi · Yôsuke Eguchi
Plot Kenshin Himura goes up against a mysterious weapons dealer named Enishi Yukishiro. He controls the underworld of China. The secret of Kenshin Himura's "Jujishou" is also revealed.
6.4
941 votes
6.4
941 votes
No No Sleep
2015 · Movie · 34 min. · Taiwan
Direction Tsai Ming-liang
Cast Masanobu Ando · Lee Kang-sheng
6.2
80 votes
6.2
80 votes
Smuggler
2011 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan
Direction Katsuhito Ishii
Cast Satoshi Tsumabuki · Masanobu Ando · Hikari Mitsushima · Masatoshi Nagase
6.2
88 votes
6.2
88 votes
The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill
2021 · Movie · 133 min. · Japan
Direction Kan Eguchi
Cast Masanobu Ando · Manami Hashimoto · Yurina Hirate · Inowaki Kai
Plot Akira Sato is the legendary killer known as The Fable. Following the order of his boss and due to being overworked, he lives peacefully with his partner Yoko as ordinary...
6.1
27 votes
6.1
27 votes
Sukiyaki Western Django
2007 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Hideaki Ito · Masanobu Ando · Koichi Sato · Kaori Momoi
Plot Yojimbo, A Fistful of Dollars, Django... West drinks from East, East drinks from West and Takashi Miike, at this point in his career, raises his glass fearlessly to surprise us...
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
Green Mind, Metal Bats
2006 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Kazuyoshi Kumakiri
Cast Masanobu Ando · Yûsuke Kamiji · Maki Sakai · Megumi Sato
6.0
22 votes
6.0
22 votes
Forever Enthralled
2008 · Movie · 147 min. · China
Direction Chen Kaige
Cast Leon Lai · Zhang Ziyi · Sun Honglei · Chen Hong
Plot A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star. Bertolt Brecht was one of his admirers, as was Charlie Chaplin and Sergei Eisenstein, who even filmed him. Chinese actor...
5.8
41 votes
5.8
41 votes
Big Bang Love, Juvenile A
2006 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Direction Takashi Miike
Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Masanobu Ando · Ryo Ishibashi · Renji Ishibashi
Plot Jun is a young introvert who has killed a customer at a bar. Shiro has known violence since his early childhood. Locked away in the same prison and in spite...
5.8
608 votes
5.8
608 votes
City Hunter
2024 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan
Direction Yuichi Sato
Cast Ryôhei Suzuki · Misato Morita · Masanobu Ando · Fumino Kimura
Plot When Ryo's partner Makimura is killed, he and Makimura's sister Kaori team up to find out the truth, thus forming a new duo.
5.5
151 votes
5.5
151 votes
Fishbowl Wives (TV Series)
2022 · Series · 44 min. · Japan
Direction Michiko Namiki · Aya Narakino
Cast Masanobu Ando · Atsuhiro Inukai · Kyoko Hasegawa · Takanori Iwata
Plot Due to an accident, Sakura Hiraga (Ryoko Shinohara) gave up on her dream. She is now married and her husband runs a hair salon. They live in a luxurious penthouse...
5.4
52 votes
5.4
52 votes
Nightmare Detective
2006 · Movie · 106 min. · Japan
Direction Shinya Tsukamoto
Cast Ryuhei Matsuda · Hitomi · Masanobu Ando · Ren Osugi
Plot A competent detective, Keiko Kirishima, encounters two mysterious suicides. Somehow the two incidents seem to be connected since the victims dialled the same number '0' with their cellphones just before...
4.6
289 votes
4.6
289 votes