Noboru Andō
Born: 1926-05-24 in Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Died: 2015-12-16
Known For: Acting
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]
Filmography
2009
- Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza as Himself
2005
2002
- True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules as Self in the present day / Narrator
1998
1997
- Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface ... (Novel)
1988
- Those Swell Yakuza
- Love on a Daily Basis ... (Producer)
- Kizu ... (Producer)
1979
- Down with The Big Boss as Shozo Hanamori
1976
- Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex as Noboru Ando
- Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm ... (Director)
- The Sea of Genkai as Kondo
1975
- Graveyard of Honor as Ryunosuke Nozu
1974
- New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Unokichi Kaizu
- Third Generation Boss
- Violent Streets as Egawa Koichi
- Father of the Kamikaze
- The Homeless as Senzo Hikawa
- The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- Violent Fraternity
- Reformatory Buddies
1973
- Yakuza of the Present as Mitsuo Kurata
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police as Iketani
- Quarreling with Yakuza
- The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1972
1971
- Sympathy for the Underdog as Noburo Kudo
- The Wolves as Gunjiro Ozeki
- The Viper Brothers as Yukichi Hayasaki
- The Viper Brothers Rage Again
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor as Shingo Otsuki
1969
- Japan Organized Crime Boss as Noboru Ooba
- The Private Police
- Fill the Cup with Blood
- Penitentiary Brothers as Naoji Iwamoto
- Showdown at Nagasaki as Ryukichi Koiwa
1968
- Secret Information as Mamoru Sagara
- A History of the Japanese Underworld
1967
- Organized Violence II as Kenji Kunisaki
- A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm as Todoroki
- Parole as Shinsuke Gunji
- The Gambler's Law
- A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
- Eighteen Years in Prison as Kawada
- King of the Gang
1966
- The Betrayers Out!
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him as Shuichi Amamiya
- Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
- Flame and the Code as Shin Nanjô
- Debt of Honor