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.
Acted in 58
2000s
- 2005
Shibuya Story
Movie
- 2000
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
Movie
1990s
- 1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
Movie
KIZU
Movie
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
Movie
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
Movie
Kizu Blood Apocalypse
Movie
1980s
- 1988
Those Swell Yakuza
Movie
1970s
- 1979
- 1976
The Sea of Genkai
Kondo
- 1975
- 1974
The Homeless
Senzo Hikawa
Father of the Kamikaze
Movie
Third Generation Boss
Movie
Reformatory Buddies
Movie
- 1973
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Movie
Yakuza of the Present
Mitsuo Kurata
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Iketani
Quarreling with Yakuza
Movie
- 1972
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
Movie
Yakuza Skirmishes
Movie
Street Mobster
Boss Yato
Gang Warfare
Movie
- 1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
Movie
Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
Shingo Otsuki
The Wolves
Gunjiro Ozeki
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
Movie
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Movie
The Viper Brothers
Yukichi Hayasaki
Sympathy for the Underdog
Noburo Kudo
- 1970
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
Movie
1960s
- 1969
Showdown at Nagasaki
Ryukichi Koiwa
Fill the Cup with Blood
Movie
Penitentiary Brothers
Naoji Iwamoto
- 1968
Secret Information
Mamoru Sagara
A History of the Japanese Underworld
Movie
- 1967
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Todoroki
Parole
Shinsuke Gunji
King of the Gang
Movie
Organized Violence II
Kenji Kunisaki
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
Movie
The Gambler's Law
Movie
Eighteen Years in Prison
Kawada
- 1966
Debt of Honor
Iwagami
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
Movie
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Shuichi Amamiya
Flame and the Code
Shin Nanjô
- 1965
Escape and the Law
Movie
Law of the Wild
Movie
Blood and Law
Movie
Wrote 8
2000s
- 2005
Shibuya Story
Original Story
1970s
- 1974
- 1973
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Original Story
- 1972
Yakuza Skirmishes
Original Story
1960s
- 1969
Penitentiary Brothers
Original Story
- 1965
Escape and the Law
Original Story
Blood and Law
Original Story
Produced 4
2000s
- 2002
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Producer
1980s
- 1988
Love on a Daily Basis
Producer
Kizu
Producer
1970s
- 1974
Directed 1
1970s
- 1976
Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm
Director
Appearances2
2000s
- 2009
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
Himself
- 2002
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Self in the present day / Narrator