Noboru Andō
Birthday: 1926-05-24
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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]
Movies
The Wolves
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets r...
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Violent Streets
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a...
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Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to viol...
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enoug...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang aft...
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The Sea of Genkai
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean wome...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bun...
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Graveyard of Honor
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. B...
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata....
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Street Mobster
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza faction...
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense...
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The Homeless
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths a...
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-viole...
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Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to reali...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series....
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Eighteen Years in Prison
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...
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King of the Gang
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and ...
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Convict son revenges innocent father's death....
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The Betrayers Out!
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge...
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Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the...
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Secret Information
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent...
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Showdown at Nagasaki
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field ...
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The Private Police
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kami...
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Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively wit...
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Yakuza of the Present
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi rest...
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most power...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest a...
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Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's mem...
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst...
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Third Generation Boss
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamag...
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The Viper Brothers Rage Again
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a...
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The Viper Brothers
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji...
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Those Swell Yakuza
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and R...
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Down with The Big Boss
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the hig...
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Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their co...
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Fill the Cup with Blood
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn betw...
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