Cast & creator
Noboru Andō
Best known for Those Swell Yakuza, Violent Streets, Graveyard of Honor
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.
73
film credits
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television credits
60
1965–2009 · acting roles
7.7
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Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (73)
Showing 73 of 73 credits
Those Swell Yakuza
1988
Violent Streets
Koichi Egawa
1974
Graveyard of Honor
Kisaburo Nozu
1975
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
Himself
2009
Down with The Big Boss
Shozo Hanamori
1979
Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface
Novel
1997
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Unokichi Kaizu
1974
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Self in the present day / Narrator
2002True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Producer
2002
Japan Organized Crime Boss
Noboru Ooba
1969
Escape and the Law
1965Escape and the Law
Original Story
1965
A History of the Japanese Underworld
1968
Sympathy for the Underdog
Noburo Kudo
1971
Organized Violence II
Kenji Kunisaki
1967
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
1998
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Shuichi Amamiya
1966
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Iketani
1973
The Wolves
Gunjiro Ozeki
1971
Father of the Kamikaze
1974
Blood and Law
1965Blood and Law
Original Story
1965
King of the Gang
1967
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971
Eighteen Years in Prison
Kawada
1967
Street Mobster
Boss Yato
1972
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Noboru Ando
1976
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972Yakuza Skirmishes
Original Story
1972
Secret Information
Mamoru Sagara
1968
The Homeless
Senzo Hikawa
1974
Violent Fraternity
1974Violent Fraternity
Producer
1974Violent Fraternity
Original Story
1974
Yakuza of the Present
Mitsuo Kurata
1973
The Private Police
1969
Kizu
Producer
1988
Law of the Wild
1965
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Original Story
1973
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
1998
KIZU
1998
Debt of Honor
Iwagami
1966
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971
Third Generation Boss
1974
Flame and the Code
Shin Nanjô
1966
The Sea of Genkai
Kondo
1976
The Viper Brothers
Yukichi Hayasaki
1971
Quarreling with Yakuza
1973
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Todoroki
1967
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1972
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
2000
Love on a Daily Basis
Producer
1988
Gang Warfare
1972
Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm
Director
1976
Parole
Shinsuke Gunji
1967
Shibuya Story
2005Shibuya Story
Original Story
2005
Penitentiary Brothers
Naoji Iwamoto
1969Penitentiary Brothers
Original Story
1969
Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
Shingo Otsuki
1971
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1966
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
1998
The Betrayers Out!
1966
Showdown at Nagasaki
Ryukichi Koiwa
1969
The Gambler's Law
1967
Kizu Blood Apocalypse
1998
Fill the Cup with Blood
1969
Reformatory Buddies
1974
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967