Noboru Ando

Noboru Ando
Born(1926-05-24)24 May 1926
Ōkubo, Tokyo, Empire of Japan
Died16 December 2015(2015-12-16) (aged 89)
Tokyo, Japan
Occupations
  • Actor
  • writer
  • singer
Years active1965–2015

Noboru Ando (Japanese: 安藤 昇, Hepburn: Andō Noboru, 24 May 1926 – 16 December 2015) was a Japanese actor, writer, singer 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]

  1. ^ Schilling, Mark (17 April 2002). "We got a real wiseguy here". Japan Times. Retrieved 4 May 2012.