Person
Noboru Andō
Acting · 1926–2015 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Noboru Ando (Japanese: 安藤 昇, Hepburn: Andō Noboru, 24 May 1926 – 16 December 2015) was a Japanese actor, writer and former yakuza. He is known for utilizing his experiences as a criminal in his many roles in yakuza films. He had a large knife scar on his left cheek, the result of a brawl with a Korean gangster as a young man.
Known for
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
Novel
Violent Fraternity
1974
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972
Blood and Law
1965
Graveyard of Honor
Kisaburo Nozu
King of the Gang
1967
Flame and the Code
Shin Nanjô
Those Swell Yakuza
1988
Debt of Honor
Iwagami
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Noboru Ando
Filmography
- 2009Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuzaHimself
- 2005Shibuya Story
- 2002True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's RulesSelf in the present day / Narrator
- 2000Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
- 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
- 1998KIZU
- 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
- 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
- 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse
- 1997Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a ScarfaceNovel
- 1988Love on a Daily BasisProducer
- 1988KizuProducer
- 1988Those Swell Yakuza
- 1979Down with The Big BossShozo Hanamori
- 1976Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An ArmDirector
- 1976Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and SexNoboru Ando
- 1976The Sea of GenkaiKondo
- 1975Graveyard of HonorKisaburo Nozu
- 1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1Unokichi Kaizu
- 1974Violent Fraternity
- 1974The HomelessSenzo Hikawa
- 1974Father of the Kamikaze
- 1974Third Generation Boss
- 1974The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- 1974Violent StreetsKoichi Egawa
- 1974Reformatory Buddies
- 1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film
- 1973Yakuza of the PresentMitsuo Kurata
- 1973A True Story of the Private Ginza PoliceIketani
- 1973Quarreling with Yakuza
- 1972Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
- 1972Yakuza Skirmishes
- 1972Street MobsterBoss Yato
- 1972Gang Warfare
- 1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- 1971Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan HonorShingo Otsuki
- 1971The WolvesGunjiro Ozeki
- 1971The Viper Brothers Rage Again
- 1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- 1971The Viper BrothersYukichi Hayasaki
- 1971Sympathy for the UnderdogNoburo Kudo
- 1970Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
- 1969Showdown at NagasakiRyukichi Koiwa
- 1969Fill the Cup with Blood
- 1969The Private Police
- 1969Penitentiary BrothersNaoji Iwamoto
- 1969Japan Organized Crime BossNoboru Ooba
- 1968Secret InformationMamoru Sagara
- 1968A History of the Japanese Underworld
- 1967A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow StormTodoroki
- 1967ParoleShinsuke Gunji
- 1967King of the Gang
- 1967Organized Violence IIKenji Kunisaki
- 1967A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
- 1967The Gambler's Law
- 1967Eighteen Years in PrisonKawada
- 1966Debt of HonorIwagami
- 1966Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
- 1966By a Man's Face Shall You Know HimShuichi Amamiya
- 1966Flame and the CodeShin Nanjô
- 1966The Betrayers Out!
- 1965Escape and the Law
- 1965Law of the Wild
- 1965Blood and Law
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