Noboru Andō

Personal Info

Birthday

May 24, 1926

Day of Death

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

Graveyard of Honor

Sympathy for the Underdog

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

Japan Organized Crime Boss

Street Mobster

Violent Streets

The Wolves

Filmography

2009
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
as Himself
2002
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
as Self in the present day / Narrator
1979
Down with The Big Boss
as Shozo Hanamori
1976
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
as Noboru Ando
The Sea of Genkai
as Kondo
1975
Graveyard of Honor
as Ryunosuke Nozu
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Unokichi Kaizu
The Homeless
as Senzo Hikawa
Violent Streets
as Egawa Koichi
1973
Yakuza of the Present
as Mitsuo Kurata
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as Iketani
1972
Street Mobster
as Boss Yato
1971
The Wolves
as Gunjiro Ozeki
Sympathy for the Underdog
as Noburo Kudo
1969
Showdown at Nagasaki
as Ryukichi Koiwa
Penitentiary Brothers
as Naoji Iwamoto
Japan Organized Crime Boss
as Ooba
1968
Secret Information
as Mamoru Sagara
1967
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
as Todoroki
Parole
as Shinsuke Gunji
Organized Violence II
as Kenji Kunisaki
Eighteen Years in Prison
as Kawada
1966
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
as Shuichi Amamiya
Flame and the Code
as Shin Nanjô