May 24, 1926 - December 16, 2015
Noboru AndÅ
Noboru Ando (Japanese: å®è€ æ, Hepburn: AndÅ Noboru, 24 May 1926 â 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]