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.

Filmography

• 2005Shibuya Story — Original Story
• 2002True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules — Self in the present day / Narrator, Producer
• 2000Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
• 1998KIZU
• 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse
• 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
• 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
• 1998Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
• 1997Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface — Novel
• 1988Kizu — Producer
• 1988Love on a Daily Basis — Producer
• 1988Those Swell Yakuza
• 1979Down with The Big Boss — Shozo Hanamori
• 1976Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex — Noboru Ando
• 1976The Sea of Genkai — Kondo
• 1976Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm — Director
• 1975Graveyard of Honor — Kisaburo Nozu
• 1974Father of the Kamikaze
• 1974New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 — Unokichi Kaizu
• 1974Reformatory Buddies
• 1974The Homeless — Senzo Hikawa
• 1974The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
• 1974Third Generation Boss
• 1974Violent Fraternity — Producer, Original Story
• 1974Violent Streets — Koichi Egawa
• 1973A True Story of the Private Ginza Police — Iketani
• 1973Quarreling with Yakuza
• 1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film — Original Story
• 1973Yakuza of the Present — Mitsuo Kurata
• 1972Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
• 1972Gang Warfare
• 1972Street Mobster — Boss Yato
• 1972Yakuza Skirmishes — Original Story
• 1971Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor — Shingo Otsuki
• 1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
• 1971New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
• 1971Sympathy for the Underdog — Noburo Kudo
• 1971The Viper Brothers — Yukichi Hayasaki
• 1971The Viper Brothers Rage Again
• 1971The Wolves — Gunjiro Ozeki
• 1970Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
• 1969Fill the Cup with Blood
• 1969Japan Organized Crime Boss — Noboru Ooba
• 1969Penitentiary Brothers — Naoji Iwamoto, Original Story
• 1969Showdown at Nagasaki — Ryukichi Koiwa
• 1969The Private Police
• 1968A History of the Japanese Underworld
• 1968Secret Information — Mamoru Sagara
• 1967A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
• 1967A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm — Todoroki
• 1967Eighteen Years in Prison — Kawada
• 1967King of the Gang
• 1967Organized Violence II — Kenji Kunisaki
• 1967Parole — Shinsuke Gunji
• 1967The Gambler's Law
• 1966By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him — Shuichi Amamiya
• 1966Debt of Honor — Iwagami
• 1966Flame and the Code — Shin Nanjô
• 1966Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
• 1966The Betrayers Out!
• 1965Blood and Law — Original Story
• 1965Escape and the Law — Original Story
• 1965Law of the Wild

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2009Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza — Himself