Name
Noboru Andō
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1926-05-24
Deathday
2015-12-16 (89 years old)
Place of Birth
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
6.6
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-...
7.5
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of hi...
7.1
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okina...
5.7
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail a...
6.737
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged b...
7.438
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi gets released ...
6.813
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yaku...
- 1971 The Wolves as Gunjiro Ozeki
- 1974 Violent Streets as Egawa Koichi
- 1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse
- 1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
- 1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
- 1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
- 2000 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
- 1971 Sympathy for the Underdog as Noburo Kudo
- 1971 Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor as Shingo Otsuki
- 1969 Japan Organized Crime Boss as Noboru Ooba
- 1976 The Sea of Genkai as Kondo
- 1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Unokichi Kaizu
- 1975 Graveyard of Honor as Ryunosuke Nozu
- 2002 True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules as Self in the present day / Narrator
- 1972 Street Mobster as Boss Yato
- 1966 By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him as Shuichi Amamiya
- 1974 The Homeless as Senzo Hikawa
- 1976 Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex as Noboru Ando
- 1974 Father of the Kamikaze
- 1972 Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
- 1967 Eighteen Years in Prison as Kawada
- 1967 Organized Violence II as Kenji Kunisaki
- 1967 A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
- 1967 The Gambler's Law
- 1967 King of the Gang
- 1967 A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm as Todoroki
- 1966 The Betrayers Out!
- 1968 A History of the Japanese Underworld
- 1966 Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
- 1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
- 1967 Parole as Shinsuke Gunji
- 1966 Flame and the Code as Shin Nanjô
- 1968 Secret Information as Mamoru Sagara
- 1969 Penitentiary Brothers as Naoji Iwamoto
- 1969 Showdown at Nagasaki as Ryukichi Koiwa
- 1969 The Private Police
- 1972 Yakuza Skirmishes
- 1973 Yakuza of the Present as Mitsuo Kurata
- 1973 Quarreling with Yakuza
- 1973 A True Story of the Private Ginza Police as Iketani
- 1973 The Ando Gang Documentary Film
- 1974 Violent Fraternity
- 1974 Reformatory Buddies
- 1974 The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- 1974 Third Generation Boss
- 1971 The Viper Brothers Rage Again
- 1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- 1971 The Viper Brothers as Yukichi Hayasaki
- 1972 Gang Warfare
- 1988 Those Swell Yakuza
- 1979 Down with The Big Boss as Shozo Hanamori
- 2005 Shibuya Story
- 1998 KIZU
- 2009 Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza as Himself
- 1965 Blood and Law
- 1966 Debt of Honor as Iwagami
- 1969 Fill the Cup with Blood
- 1970 Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
- 1965 Escape and the Law
- 1965 Law of the Wild
