Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1926-05-24

Deathday

2015-12-16 (89 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Noboru Andō

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

6.7%

Graveyard of Honor

Feb 15, 1975

6.9%

Street Mobster

May 6, 1972

7.2%

Sympathy for the Underdog

Jan 12, 1971

7.4%

The Wolves

Oct 30, 1971

6.9%

Violent Streets

Apr 13, 1974

5.5%

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Dec 28, 1974

7.9%

Japan Organized Crime Boss

Jul 8, 1969

5.0%

The Sea of Genkai

May 29, 1976

7.5%

The Homeless

Oct 9, 1974

6.0%

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

Jul 4, 1973

8.7%

Eighteen Years in Prison

Feb 24, 1967

5.0%

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

Aug 13, 1971

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Acting

2009

Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza as Himself

2005

Shibuya Story

2002

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

1976		Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex as Noboru Ando
1976		The Sea of Genkai as Kondo

1975

Graveyard of Honor as Ryunosuke Nozu

1974		New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Unokichi Kaizu
1974		Violent Fraternity
1974		The Homeless as Senzo Hikawa
1974		Father of the Kamikaze
1974		Third Generation Boss
1974		The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974		Violent Streets as Egawa Koichi
1974		Reformatory Buddies

1973		The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973		Yakuza of the Present as Mitsuo Kurata
1973		A True Story of the Private Ginza Police as Iketani
1973		Quarreling with Yakuza

1972		Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972		Yakuza Skirmishes
1972		Street Mobster as Boss Yato
1972		Gang Warfare

1971		New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971		Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
1971		The Wolves as Gunjiro Ozeki
1971		The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971		New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971		The Viper Brothers
1971		Sympathy for the Underdog as Noburo Kudo

1970

Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement

1969		Showdown at Nagasaki as Ryukichi Koiwa
1969		Fill the Cup with Blood
1969		The Private Police
1969		Penitentiary Brothers as Naoji Iwamoto
1969		Japan Organized Crime Boss as Ooba

1968		Secret Information as Mamoru Sagara
1968		A History of the Japanese Underworld

1967		A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm as Todoroki
1967		Parole as Shinsuke Gunji
1967		King of the Gang
1967		Organized Violence II as Kenji Kunisaki
1967		A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967		The Gambler's Law
1967		Eighteen Years in Prison as Kawada

1966		Debt of Honor
1966		Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966		By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him as Shuichi Amamiya
1966		Flame and the Code as Shin Nanjô
1966		The Betrayers Out!