Noboru Andō - Actor Profile

Noboru Andō

50Movies
8.7 Best Rating

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]

Top Rated Movies

★8.7
Eighteen Years in Prison (1967) movie poster
★8.7

Eighteen Years in Prison — A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a

Eighteen Years in Prison

1967•Drama
★8.0
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966) movie poster
★8.0

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him — Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

1966•Crime
★7.6
Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969) movie poster
★7.6

Japan Organized Crime Boss — Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his

Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969•Crime
★7.5
The Homeless (1974) movie poster
★7.5

The Homeless — Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest

The Homeless

1974•Crime
★7.4
The Wolves (1971) movie poster
★7.4

The Wolves — After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- onl

The Wolves

1971•Crime

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

YearMovieCharacterRatingVerdict
2009 Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza Himself ★ 7.0 HIT
2002 True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules Self in the present day / Narrator ★ 0.0 FLOP
2000 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2 - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1998 Kizu Blood Apocalypse - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1988 Those Swell Yakuza - ★ 6.0 FLOP
1976 Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex Noboru Ando ★ 7.0 HIT
1976 The Sea of Genkai Kondo ★ 5.0 FLOP
1975 Graveyard of Honor Ryunosuke Nozu ★ 6.6 HIT
1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 Unokichi Kaizu ★ 5.4 FLOP
1974 Violent Fraternity - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1974 The Homeless Senzo Hikawa ★ 7.5 HIT
1974 Father of the Kamikaze - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1974 Third Generation Boss - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1974 The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1974 Violent Streets Egawa Koichi ★ 6.6 HIT
1974 Reformatory Buddies - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1973 The Ando Gang Documentary Film - ★ 6.0 FLOP
1973 Yakuza of the Present Mitsuo Kurata ★ 0.0 FLOP
1973 A True Story of the Private Ginza Police Iketani ★ 5.0 FLOP
1973 Quarreling with Yakuza - ★ 5.0 FLOP
1972 Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1972 Yakuza Skirmishes - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1972 Street Mobster Boss Yato ★ 6.7 HIT
1972 Gang Warfare - ★ 7.0 HIT
1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1971 Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor Shingo Otsuki ★ 0.0 FLOP
1971 The Wolves Gunjiro Ozeki ★ 7.4 HIT
1971 New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape - ★ 5.0 FLOP
1971 The Viper Brothers Yukichi Hayasaki ★ 6.5 HIT
1971 Sympathy for the Underdog Noburo Kudo ★ 7.1 HIT
1969 Showdown at Nagasaki Ryukichi Koiwa ★ 0.0 FLOP
1969 The Private Police - ★ 7.0 HIT
1969 Penitentiary Brothers Naoji Iwamoto ★ 0.0 FLOP
1969 Japan Organized Crime Boss Ooba ★ 7.6 HIT
1968 Secret Information Mamoru Sagara ★ 0.0 FLOP
1968 A History of the Japanese Underworld - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm Todoroki ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 Parole Shinsuke Gunji ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 King of the Gang - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 Organized Violence II Kenji Kunisaki ★ 6.0 FLOP
1967 A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 The Gambler's Law - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1967 Eighteen Years in Prison Kawada ★ 8.7 HIT
1966 Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge! - ★ 0.0 FLOP
1966 By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him Shuichi Amamiya ★ 8.0 HIT
1966 Flame and the Code Shin Nanjô ★ 0.0 FLOP
1966 The Betrayers Out! - ★ 0.0 FLOP