Noboru Andō
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
- Graveyard of Honor (1975)
- Those Swell Yakuza (1988)
- Violent Streets (1974)
- Down with The Big Boss (1979)
- Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza (2009)
- True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules (2002)
- A History of the Japanese Underworld (1968)
- Sympathy for the Underdog (1971)
- Father of the Kamikaze (1974)
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966)
- Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2 (1998)
- Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex (1976)
- Japan Organized Crime Boss (1969)
- Eighteen Years in Prison (1967)
- A True Story of the Private Ginza Police (1973)
- Street Mobster (1972)
- Yakuza of the Present (1973)
- The Wolves (1971)
- The Viper Brothers Rage Again (1971)
- Blood and Law (1965)