Noboru Andō

Birthday: May 24th, 1926 Date of Death: December 16th, 2015 Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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]