Noboru Andō

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]

  • Title: Noboru Andō
  • Popularity: 3.922
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-05-24
  • Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Noboru Andō Movies

  • 1971
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    The Wolves

    The Wolves

    7.3 1971 HD

    After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former...

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  • 1974
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    Violent Streets

    Violent Streets

    6.5 1974 HD

    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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  • 1998
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    Kizu Blood Apocalypse

    Kizu Blood Apocalypse

    1 1998 HD

    The first 'Kizu' film.

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  • 1998
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    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2

    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 2

    1 1998 HD

    The second 'Kizu' film.

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  • 1998
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    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4

    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 4

    1 1998 HD

    The fourth 'Kizu' film.

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  • 1998
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    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3

    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 3

    1 1998 HD

    The third 'Kizu' film.

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  • 2000
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    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5

    Kizu Blood Apocalypse 5

    1 2000 HD

    The final 'Kizu' film.

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  • 1971
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    Sympathy for the Underdog

    Sympathy for the Underdog

    7.2 1971 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor

    Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor

    1 1971 HD

    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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  • 1969
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    Japan Organized Crime Boss

    Japan Organized Crime Boss

    7.9 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    The Sea of Genkai

    The Sea of Genkai

    5 1976 HD

    Two yakuza, one of whom frequently reflects on an uncomfortable past taking advantage of Korean women, meet a stowaway on Japanese soil from across...

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  • 1974
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    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

    5.3 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1975
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    Graveyard of Honor

    Graveyard of Honor

    6.7 1975 HD

    A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

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  • 2002
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    True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

    True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

    1 2002 HD

    Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

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  • 1972
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    Street Mobster

    Street Mobster

    6.863 1972 HD

    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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  • 1966
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    By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

    By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

    8 1966 HD

    Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...

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  • 1974
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    The Homeless

    The Homeless

    7.5 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

    Noboru Ando's Chronicle of Fugitive Days and Sex

    7 1976 HD

    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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  • 1974
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    Father of the Kamikaze

    Father of the Kamikaze

    1 1974 HD

    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...

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  • 1972
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    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

    Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

    1 1972 HD

    The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

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  • 1967
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    Eighteen Years in Prison

    Eighteen Years in Prison

    9 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    Organized Violence II

    Organized Violence II

    6 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance

    A History of the Japanese Underworld - The Bloody Resistance

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Gambler's Law

    The Gambler's Law

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1967
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    King of the Gang

    King of the Gang

    1 1967 HD

    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...

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  • 1967
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    A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

    A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

    1 1967 HD

    Convict son revenges innocent father's death.

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  • 1966
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    The Betrayers Out!

    The Betrayers Out!

    1 1966 HD

    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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  • 1968
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    A History of the Japanese Underworld

    A History of the Japanese Underworld

    1 1968 HD

    The hero tries to unite various gangs.

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  • 1966
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    Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!

    Opium Plateau: Hell Squad, Charge!

    1 1966 HD

    Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It...

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  • 1971
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    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1967
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    Parole

    Parole

    1 1967 HD

    Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

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  • 1966
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    Flame and the Code

    Flame and the Code

    1 1966 HD

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  • 1968
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    Secret Information

    Secret Information

    1 1968 HD

    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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  • 1969
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    Penitentiary Brothers

    Penitentiary Brothers

    1 1969 HD

    Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

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  • 1969
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    Showdown at Nagasaki

    Showdown at Nagasaki

    1 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1969
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    The Private Police

    The Private Police

    7 1969 HD

    After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians...

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  • 1972
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    Yakuza Skirmishes

    Yakuza Skirmishes

    1 1972 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    Yakuza of the Present

    Yakuza of the Present

    1 1973 HD

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  • 1973
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    Quarreling with Yakuza

    Quarreling with Yakuza

    5 1973 HD

    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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  • 1973
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    A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

    A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

    5.7 1973 HD

    After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.

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  • 1973
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    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    6 1973 HD

    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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  • 1974
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    Violent Fraternity

    Violent Fraternity

    1 1974 HD

    Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

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  • 1974
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    Reformatory Buddies

    Reformatory Buddies

    1 1974 HD

    Third film in the series.

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  • 1974
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    The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

    The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers

    1 1974 HD

    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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  • 1974
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    Third Generation Boss

    Third Generation Boss

    1 1974 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    The Viper Brothers Rage Again

    The Viper Brothers Rage Again

    1 1971 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

    New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

    5 1971 HD

    Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

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  • 1971
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    The Viper Brothers

    The Viper Brothers

    6 1971 HD

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  • 1972
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    Gang Warfare

    Gang Warfare

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1988
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    Those Swell Yakuza

    Those Swell Yakuza

    6 1988 HD

    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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  • 1979
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    Down with The Big Boss

    Down with The Big Boss

    1 1979 HD

    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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  • 2005
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    Shibuya Story

    Shibuya Story

    1 2005 HD

    Biopic of yakuza Noboru Ando, based on his autobiography.

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  • 1998
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    KIZU

    KIZU

    1 1998 HD

    Direct to video crime film.

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  • 2009
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    Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

    Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza

    7 2009 HD

    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,...

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  • 1965
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    Blood and Law

    Blood and Law

    1 1965 HD

    Based on the autobiography of Noboru Andô .

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  • 1966
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    Debt of Honor

    Debt of Honor

    1 1966 HD

    A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.

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  • 1969
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    Fill the Cup with Blood

    Fill the Cup with Blood

    1 1969 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement

    Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement

    1 1970 HD

    Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

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  • 1976
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    Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm

    Yakuza Cruel Secret Amputation Of An Arm

    1 1976 HD

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  • 2002
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    True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

    True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

    1 2002 HD

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  • 1969
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    Penitentiary Brothers

    Penitentiary Brothers

    1 1969 HD

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  • 1988
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    Love on a Daily Basis

    Love on a Daily Basis

    1 1988 HD

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  • 1974
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    Violent Fraternity

    Violent Fraternity

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1973
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    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    6 1973 HD

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  • 2005
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    Shibuya Story

    Shibuya Story

    1 2005 HD

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  • 1972
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    Yakuza Skirmishes

    Yakuza Skirmishes

    1 1972 HD

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  • 1965
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    Blood and Law

    Blood and Law

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1974
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    Violent Fraternity

    Violent Fraternity

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1997
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    Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface

    Account of the Ando Gang: Tale of a Scarface

    5.7 1997 HD

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  • 1988
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    Kizu

    Kizu

    1 1988 HD

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