Noboru Andō

Known for: Acting
Born: May 24, 1926, Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died: December 16, 2015
Movies: 65

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.

Best-Known Movies

6.7

Graveyard of Honor

1975

6.8

Street Mobster

1972

7.1

Sympathy for the Underdog

1971

7.4

The Wolves

1971

6.8

Violent Streets

1974

5.9

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

1974

7.4

Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969

5.9

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

8.0

Eighteen Years in Prison

1967

5.8

The Sea of Genkai

1976

Filmography

2009	Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza	Himself
2005	Shibuya Story
2002	True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules	Self in the present day / Narrator
2000	Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
1998	Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
1998	KIZU
1998	Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
1998	Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
1998	Kizu Blood Apocalypse
1988	Those Swell Yakuza
1979	Down with The Big Boss	Shozo Hanamori
1976	Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex	Noboru Ando
1976	The Sea of Genkai	Kondo
1975	Graveyard of Honor	Kisaburo Nozu
1974	New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1	Unokichi Kaizu
1974	Violent Fraternity
1974	The Homeless	Senzo Hikawa
1974	Father of the Kamikaze
1974	Third Generation Boss
1974	The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974	Violent Streets	Koichi Egawa
1974	Reformatory Buddies
1973	The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973	Yakuza of the Present	Mitsuo Kurata
1973	A True Story of the Private Ginza Police	Iketani
1973	Quarreling with Yakuza
1972	Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972	Yakuza Skirmishes
1972	Street Mobster	Boss Yato
1972	Gang Warfare
1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971	Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor	Shingo Otsuki
1971	The Wolves	Gunjiro Ozeki
1971	The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971	New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971	The Viper Brothers	Yukichi Hayasaki
1971	Sympathy for the Underdog	Noburo Kudo
1970	Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
1969	Showdown at Nagasaki	Ryukichi Koiwa
1969	Fill the Cup with Blood
1969	The Private Police
1969	Penitentiary Brothers	Naoji Iwamoto
1969	Japan Organized Crime Boss	Noboru Ooba
1968	Secret Information	Mamoru Sagara
1968	A History of the Japanese Underworld
1967	A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm	Todoroki
1967	Parole	Shinsuke Gunji
1967	King of the Gang
1967	Organized Violence II	Kenji Kunisaki
1967	A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967	The Gambler's Law
1967	Eighteen Years in Prison	Kawada
1966	Debt of Honor	Iwagami
1966	Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966	By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him	Shuichi Amamiya
1966	Flame and the Code	Shin Nanjô
1966	The Betrayers Out!
1965	Escape and the Law
1965	Law of the Wild
1965	Blood and Law

Directing, Writing & Producing

2002	True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules	Producer
1988	Love on a Daily Basis	Producer
1988	Kizu	Producer
1976	Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm	Director
1974	Violent Fraternity	Producer

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