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.[1]
Known for
Graveyard of Honor
Ryunosuke Nozu
Debt of Honor
Iwagami
Violent Streets
Egawa Koichi
Sympathy for the Underdog
Noburo Kudo
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
Novel
Those Swell Yakuza
1988
A History of the Japanese Underworld
1968
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Unokichi Kaizu
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 HonorRyunosuke 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 StreetsEgawa Koichi
- 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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