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.

KNOWN FOR

Those Swell Yakuza
1988
Violent Streets
1974
Graveyard of Honor
1975
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
2009
Japan Organized Crime Boss
1969
Father of the Kamikaze
1974
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
1997
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
1976
Street Mobster
1972
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
2002
The Wolves
1971
Down with The Big Boss
1979

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
60
Directing
1
Writing
8
Producing
4
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
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
1998
KIZU
1988
Those Swell Yakuza
1979
Down with The Big Boss
as Shozo Hanamori
1976
The Sea of Genkai
as Kondo
1976
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
as Noboru Ando
1975
Graveyard of Honor
as Kisaburo Nozu
1974
Violent Streets
as Koichi Egawa
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
as Unokichi Kaizu
1974
The Homeless
as Senzo Hikawa
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
1974
Reformatory Buddies
1974
Violent Fraternity
1974
Third Generation Boss
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1973
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
as Iketani
1973
Yakuza of the Present
as Mitsuo Kurata
1973
Quarreling with Yakuza
1973
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1972
Street Mobster
as Boss Yato
1972
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972
Gang Warfare
1971
The Wolves
as Gunjiro Ozeki
1971
Sympathy for the Underdog
as Noburo Kudo
1971
Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
as Shingo Otsuki
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971
The Viper Brothers
as Yukichi Hayasaki
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1970
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
1969
Japan Organized Crime Boss
as Noboru Ooba
1969
Showdown at Nagasaki
as Ryukichi Koiwa
1969
The Private Police
1969
Penitentiary Brothers
as Naoji Iwamoto
1969
Fill the Cup with Blood
1968
A History of the Japanese Underworld
1968
Secret Information
as Mamoru Sagara
1967
Eighteen Years in Prison
as Kawada
1967
Organized Violence II
as Kenji Kunisaki
1967
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967
The Gambler's Law
1967
King of the Gang
1967
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
as Todoroki
1967
Parole
as Shinsuke Gunji
1966
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
as Shuichi Amamiya
1966
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Flame and the Code
as Shin Nanjô
1966
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966
Debt of Honor
as Iwagami
1965
Blood and Law
1965
Escape and the Law
1965
Law of the Wild