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.[1]
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0304 |
| Birthday | 1926-05-24 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As |
1971
The Wolves
7.523/22
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with t...
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The Wolves
1974
Violent Streets
6.722/18
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
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Violent Streets
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse
0/0
The first 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
0/0
The second 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
0/0
The fourth 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4
1998
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
0/0
The third 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3
2000
Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
0/0
The final 'Kizu Blood Apocalypse' film.
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Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5
1971
Sympathy for the Underdog
7.105/38
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
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Sympathy for the Underdog
1971
Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
0/0
The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory?
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Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor
1969
Japan Organized Crime Boss
7.5/10
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 boss. His small group is is ta...
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
1976
The Sea of Genkai
5.8/5
Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across th...
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The Sea of Genkai
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.711/19
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1975
Graveyard of Honor
6.648/54
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Graveyard of Honor
2002
True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
10/1
Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.
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True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules
1972
Street Mobster
6.813/48
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.
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Street Mobster
1966
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
8.5/2
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando)...
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
1974
The Homeless
7.8/5
Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the a...
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The Homeless
1976
Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
7/2
Ando on the run, stopping in to service all the women in his life, with a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex
1974
Father of the Kamikaze
0/0
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solutio...
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Father of the Kamikaze
1972
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
7/1
The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die
1967
Eighteen Years in Prison
8.25/4
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cro...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
1967
Organized Violence II
7.5/2
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Organized Violence II
1967
A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
0/0
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A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance
1967
The Gambler's Law
0/0
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The Gambler's Law
1967
King of the Gang
9/1
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's market...
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King of the Gang
1967
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
9/1
Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
1966
The Betrayers Out!
0/0
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and...
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The Betrayers Out!
1968
A History of the Japanese Underworld
9/1
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
1966
Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
0/0
Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It is a war drama set in Chi...
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Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
8/1
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1967
Parole
9/1
Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.
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Parole
1966
Flame and the Code
0/0
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Flame and the Code
1968
Secret Information
9/1
A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...
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Secret Information
1969
Penitentiary Brothers
0/0
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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Penitentiary Brothers
1969
Showdown at Nagasaki
8/1
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken o...
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Showdown at Nagasaki
1969
The Private Police
7.5/2
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans...
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The Private Police
1972
Yakuza Skirmishes
10/1
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
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Yakuza Skirmishes
1973
Yakuza of the Present
7/1
In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant decides to rise up again when he sees his f...
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Yakuza of the Present
1973
Quarreling with Yakuza
5/1
Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
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Quarreling with Yakuza
1973
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
5.333/6
Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group o...
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A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
1973
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
6.5/2
This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1974
Violent Fraternity
8/1
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
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Violent Fraternity
1974
Reformatory Buddies
0/0
Third film in the series.
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Reformatory Buddies
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
10/1
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974
Third Generation Boss
8/1
Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.
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Third Generation Boss
1971
The Viper Brothers Rage Again
10/1
Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
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The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
5.75/4
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971
The Viper Brothers
7.667/3
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets...
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The Viper Brothers
1972
Gang Warfare
8/2
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Gang Warfare
1988
Those Swell Yakuza
8/2
Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.
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Those Swell Yakuza
1979
Down with The Big Boss
8/1
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.
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Down with The Big Boss
2005
Shibuya Story
9/1
Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.
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Shibuya Story
1998
KIZU
0/0
Direct to video crime film.
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KIZU
2009
Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
7/1
The history of the Yakuza Eiga at the TOEI studio is roughly outlined. Real Yakuza and also their connections to the movie business are discussed, and...
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Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza
1965
Blood and Law
0/0
After the war, Noboru Ando, a former kamikaze soldier, returns to a devastated Tokyo. Enraged by the violence prevalent in society, he immerses himsel...
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Blood and Law
1966
Debt of Honor
0/0
A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.
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Debt of Honor
1969
Fill the Cup with Blood
0/0
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.
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Fill the Cup with Blood
1970
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
0/0
Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
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Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
1965
Escape and the Law
0/0
Minami Yoichiro is a gang member who has killed the boss of opponent clan. Before leaving Japan forever, he visits his sister's grave and becomes invo...
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Escape and the Law
1965
Law of the Wild
0/0
The story centers on a young yakuza, played by Keiji Takamiya, who teams up with a group of delinquent girls to commit crimes and make money. The seco...
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