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Noboru Andō

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Noboru Andō

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

May 24, 1926 (100 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

Acting
2009Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuzaHimself
2005Shibuya Story
2002True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's RulesSelf in the present day / Narrator
2000Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse
1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
1998KIZU
1988Those Swell Yakuza
1979Down with The Big BossShozo Hanamori
1976The Sea of GenkaiKondo
1976Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and SexNoboru Ando
1975Graveyard of HonorRyunosuke Nozu
1974Violent StreetsEgawa Koichi
1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1Unokichi Kaizu
1974The HomelessSenzo Hikawa
1974Father of the Kamikaze
1974Reformatory Buddies
1974Violent Fraternity
1974Third Generation Boss
1974The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1973Quarreling with Yakuza
1973A True Story of the Private Ginza PoliceIketani
1973Yakuza of the PresentMitsuo Kurata
1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1972Street MobsterBoss Yato
1972Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972Yakuza Skirmishes
1972Gang Warfare
1971The WolvesGunjiro Ozeki
1971Sympathy for the UnderdogNoburo Kudo
1971Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan HonorShingo Otsuki
1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971The Viper BrothersYukichi Hayasaki
1970Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
1969Japan Organized Crime BossNoboru Ooba
1969Penitentiary BrothersNaoji Iwamoto
1969The Private Police
1969Showdown at NagasakiRyukichi Koiwa
1969Fill the Cup with Blood
1968A History of the Japanese Underworld
1968Secret InformationMamoru Sagara
1967Eighteen Years in PrisonKawada
1967Organized Violence IIKenji Kunisaki
1967A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967The Gambler's Law
1967King of the Gang
1967A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow StormTodoroki
1967ParoleShinsuke Gunji
1966By a Man's Face Shall You Know HimShuichi Amamiya
1966The Betrayers Out!
1966Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966Flame and the CodeShin Nanjô
1966Debt of Honor
1965Blood and Law
1965Escape and the Law
1965Law of the Wild
Production
2002True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's RulesProducer
1988Love on a Daily BasisProducer
1988KizuProducer
1974Violent FraternityProducer
Directing
1976Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An ArmDirector
Writing
2005Shibuya StoryOriginal Story
1997Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a ScarfaceNovel
1974Violent FraternityOriginal Story
1973The Ando Gang Documentary FilmOriginal Story
1972Yakuza SkirmishesOriginal Story
1969Penitentiary BrothersOriginal Story
1965Blood and LawOriginal Story
1965Escape and the LawOriginal Story