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
Graveyard of Honor
(1975)
Ryunosuke Nozu
Full Filmography
Acting
Blood and Law
(1965)
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
(1966)
Shuichi Amamiya
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
(1966)
Flame and the Code
(1966)
Shin Nanjô
The Betrayers Out!
(1966)
Debt of Honor
(1966)
The Gambler's Law
(1967)
Parole
(1967)
Shinsuke Gunji
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
(1967)
Organized Violence II
(1967)
Kenji Kunisaki
Eighteen Years in Prison
(1967)
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
(1967)
Todoroki
King of the Gang
(1967)
Secret Information
(1968)
Mamoru Sagara
A History of the Japanese Underworld
(1968)
Showdown at Nagasaki
(1969)
Ryukichi Koiwa
Fill the Cup with Blood
(1969)
Japan Organized Crime Boss
(1969)
Ooba
The Private Police
(1969)
Penitentiary Brothers
(1969)
Naoji Iwamoto
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
(1970)
Kantō tekiya ikka: Enko no daimon
(1971)
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
(1971)
Sympathy for the Underdog
(1971)
Noburo Kudo
The Wolves
(1971)
Gunjiro Ozeki
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
(1971)
The Viper Brothers
(1971)
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
(1971)
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
(1972)
Street Mobster
(1972)
Boss Yato
Yakuza Skirmishes
(1972)
Gang Warfare
(1972)
Yakuza of the Present
(1973)
Mitsuo Kurata
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
(1973)
Quarreling with Yakuza
(1973)
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
(1973)
Iketani Sanro
Father of the Kamikaze
(1974)
The Homeless
(1974)
Senzo Hikawa
Reformatory Buddies
(1974)
Violent Fraternity
(1974)
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
(1974)
Unokichi Kaizu
Violent Streets
(1974)
Egawa Koichi
Third Generation Boss
(1974)
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
(1974)
Graveyard of Honor
(1975)
Ryunosuke Nozu
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
(1976)
Noboru Ando
The Sea of Genkai
(1976)
Kondo
Down with The Big Boss
(1979)
Shozo Hanamori
Those Swell Yakuza
(1988)
KIZU
(1998)
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
(1998)
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
(1998)
Kizu Blood Apocalypse
(1998)
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
(1998)
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
(2000)
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
(2002)
Self in the present day / Narrator
Shibuya Story
(2005)
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
(2009)
Himself
Writing
Blood and Law
(1965)
Original Story
Penitentiary Brothers
(1969)
Original Story
Yakuza Skirmishes
(1972)
Original Story
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
(1973)
Original Story
Violent Fraternity
(1974)
Story
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
(1997)
Novel
Shibuya Story
(2005)
Original Story
Production
Violent Fraternity
(1974)
Producer
Kizu
(1988)
Producer
Love on a Daily Basis
(1988)
Producer
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
(2002)
Producer
Directing