Noboru Andō

ActorWriterProducerDirector May 24 (died age 89) Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan 1965–2009 (44 year career)

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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

Film

Graveyard of Honor

Ryunosuke Nozu

Film

Street Mobster

Boss Yato

Film

Sympathy for the Underdog

Noburo Kudo

Film

The Wolves

Gunjiro Ozeki

Film

Violent Streets

Egawa Koichi

Film

Japan Organized Crime Boss

Ooba

Film

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Unokichi Kaizu

Film

The Homeless

Senzo Hikawa

Filmography

Acting (58)

Movies (58)

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

2009

as Himself

7.0

Shibuya Story

2005

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

2002

as Self in the present day / Narrator

Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5

2000

Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4

1998

KIZU

1998

Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3

1998

Kizu Blood Apocalypse

1998

Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2

1998

Those Swell Yakuza

1988

6.0

Down with The Big Boss

1979

as Shozo Hanamori

The Sea of Genkai

1976

as Kondo

5.0

Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

as Noboru Ando

Graveyard of Honor

as Ryunosuke Nozu

Violent Streets

as Egawa Koichi

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

as Unokichi Kaizu

Reformatory Buddies

The Homeless

as Senzo Hikawa

Father of the Kamikaze

1974

Violent Fraternity

1974

Third Generation Boss

1974

The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

1974

Yakuza of the Present

1973

as Mitsuo Kurata

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

1973

6.0

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

as Iketani

5.0

Quarreling with Yakuza

Yakuza Skirmishes

Street Mobster

as Boss Yato

Gang Warfare

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

1972

The Wolves

1971

as Gunjiro Ozeki

7.5

Sympathy for the Underdog

as Noburo Kudo

The Viper Brothers

as Yukichi Hayasaki

Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor

1971

as Shingo Otsuki

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

1971

5.0

The Viper Brothers Rage Again

1971

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement

1970

The Private Police

1969

7.0

Penitentiary Brothers

1969

as Naoji Iwamoto

Fill the Cup with Blood

1969

Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969

as Ooba

7.6

Showdown at Nagasaki

1969

as Ryukichi Koiwa

A History of the Japanese Underworld

1968

Secret Information

1968

as Mamoru Sagara

Organized Violence II

as Kenji Kunisaki

The Gambler's Law

Parole

as Shinsuke Gunji

A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance

1967

Eighteen Years in Prison

1967

as Kawada

8.7

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

1967

as Todoroki

King of the Gang

1967

Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!

1966

The Betrayers Out!

1966

Flame and the Code

1966

as Shin Nanjô

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

as Shuichi Amamiya

Debt of Honor

Blood and Law

Crew (12)

Movies (12)

Shibuya Story

2005

Original Story

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

2002

Producer

Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface

1997

Novel

5.7

Kizu

1988

Producer

Love on a Daily Basis

1988

Producer

1.0

Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm

1976

Director

Violent Fraternity

1974

Original Story

Violent Fraternity

1974

Producer

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

1973

Original Story

6.0

Yakuza Skirmishes

1972

Original Story

Penitentiary Brothers

1969

Original Story

Blood and Law

1965

Original Story