Nozomi Ando

Nozomi Ando

Born: August 3, 1982
in Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Ando Nozomi is a former Oha Star girl and also a former Nicomo (model of nicola). She made her acting debut with Gamera 3 Jashin Kakusei. After that film she appeared in a handful of others and won herself Mainichi Film Contest Sponichi Grand Prix Newcomer award for Sakuya Youkaiten in 2000. She was also the recepient of the Third Nihon Digital Video Grand Prix award for best actress.

While she began singing on an independent label in 1999, in 2001 she made her major debut with Crowd Record. However, she has focused more on acting in recent years and has not recorded music since 2003. She also got married five years later, as announced on her blog, and gave birth to her first child a year later.

Movies for Nozomi Ando...

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel
Title: Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel
Character: Seiko Katori
Released: August 19, 2006
Type: Movie
Ichiro Hanada is a mischievous boy who gains the ability to see and talk to ghosts after a near-death experience. (live-action adaptation of the manga )
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IKUSA: The 2nd War
Title: IKUSA: The 2nd War
Released: July 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Things have never been the same for the local Yakuza ever since Issa Mido invented the famous curry-squeezing device Shiboru-kun. Despite his invention being a big hit, he seems to have completely dropped off the map. The smaller families see Issa as an important tool in order to overthrow the head of the gang, and begin searching for him far and wide.
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Throws Out My Hometown
Title: Throws Out My Hometown
Character: Meri
Released: July 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Aiko and Meri are best friends. But they are to be apart in the next spring, because Aiko is going to Tokyo to attend the university there. In their home town, they meet various people. A bus driver looking for his runway daughter. A young man who can not decide what he should do about his job and marriage. A middle-aged housewife who doesn't see the meaning of their marriage life anymore..
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Death 2: Engraved Cross
Title: Death 2: Engraved Cross
Released: May 7, 2006
Type: Movie
The birth of a horror heroine to rival Sadako and Tomie. Speak, speak, and speak more and more. Rumors and fears cannot be stopped.
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Gurozuka
Title: Gurozuka
Character: Takako
Released: October 21, 2005
Type: Movie
A fun getaway turns into a journey to Hell for some teenage girls visiting an isolated house to rehearse and perform a play for their private movie club. Taking the trip with an adult chaperone, the girls learn a previous club member supposedly went missing in the house, and another insane! Shortly after they arrive, a mysterious videotape is found with footage of a violent killer wearing a Japanese “deigan” mask. Is this footage real or fake? Soon, their food and equipment disappears and one of the girls is haunted by ghostly visions of the masked demon. Someone or something is in the house, and gruesome death awaits those who cannot escape!
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Touch
Title: Touch
Character: Sayuri Hyuga
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Twin brothers, Tatsuya and Kazuya, grew up with their next door neighbor Minami like siblings. Minami's dream is that her school's baseball team will participate in the national Koshien High School Baseball Tournament. The twin brothers make a pact that they will take Minami to the tournament.
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World's End / Girl Friend
Title: World's End / Girl Friend
Character: Erika
Released: September 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Shinnosuke and Misawa are joint managers of a Bonsai shop. Suddenly Shinnosuke's childhood friend Haruko turns up. She has split up with her boyfriend and finds herself out on the streets. Shinnosuke starts to like her and really wants to cheer her up, but he can't manage to express his real feelings or stop picking up other women. Misawa is dumbfounded by Shinnosuke's behavior but also has complex feelings of love for his friend.
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Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Natsu no Kai
Title: Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Natsu no Kai
Released: July 25, 2005
Type: Movie
This is the third in a series of hair-raising omnibus horror stories from Japan's most famous horror storyteller, Junji Inagawa. Matsukawa is guided by Shinohara, the manager of a business partner, to a certain bar in Kamata. Sitting next to him is a pale, quiet woman. Shinohara tells him that there is a restaurant where a woman's ghost appears. At first Matsukawa makes fun of Shinohara's story, but...
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Flic
Title: Flic
Character: Michiko Kusuda / Ai Kusuda
Released: January 22, 2005
Type: Movie
Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 4 - The Fire Chapter
Title: Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 4 - The Fire Chapter
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Final movie in the Sarutobi Sasuke Series. たのしいかったです。
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Princess HIME 1: The Woman Who Loved Too Much
Title: Princess HIME 1: The Woman Who Loved Too Much
Released: February 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A woman confirms her love for a man by testing him. What is the last action taken by the man who was being tested...?
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Princess HIME 3: The Woman Within the Woman
Title: Princess HIME 3: The Woman Within the Woman
Released: February 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A woman who becomes morbidly “clean” by the slightest chance. What is the “last trash” she disposes of...?
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Princess HIME 2: The Woman of Delusion
Title: Princess HIME 2: The Woman of Delusion
Released: February 27, 2004
Type: Movie
A woman who can only live in her fantasy. Is the landscape she sees reality or delusion...?
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Kibakichi
Title: Kibakichi
Character: Kikyo
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: Movie
A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
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L'amant
Title: L'amant
Character: Chikako
Released: February 5, 2004
Type: Movie
When three older men buy a 17-year-old schoolgirl named Chikako for a year's-worth of sexual services -- her motivation, aside from money, is never explained -- the relationships among the men (whom she calls A. B and C) keep shifting in ways that redefine power and sex.
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 3 - The Wind Chapter
Title: Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 3 - The Wind Chapter
Released: January 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Part 3 of 4 about Sarutobi Sasuke
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter
Title: Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter
Released: January 2, 2004
Type: Movie
Part 2 of 4 Sarutobi Sasuke Series.
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 1 - The Heaven Chapter
Title: Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 1 - The Heaven Chapter
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
Part 1 of a 4 part series about Sarutobi Sasuke
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The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
Title: The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
Released: December 26, 2003
Type: Movie
There has been a surge in the number of people killing themselves; a mysterious DVD is found on the bodies of the victims... Nozomi falls under the spell of a deadly cult. Yousuke, the policeman she is dating, soon realizes that the cult has something to do with the DVD. Then one day all trace of the group disappear--along with Nozomi.
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Fight Girls
Title: Fight Girls
Character: Kei (female boxer)
Released: October 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa
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The Suicide Manual
Title: The Suicide Manual
Character: Miki Nagasawa
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
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Demon Hunting
Title: Demon Hunting
Character: Michiru
Released: May 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Demon Hunting is a Japanese made-for-television horror movie. It originally aired as the second episode of Series Kyōfu Yawa in 2003. Nozomi Ando stars as Michiru, a teenager who makes a pact with a demon to kill the rival classmate who's dating the teacher she is in love with herself, Mr. Kamata (Hideo Sakaki). While she's at it, she also asks to see the world destroyed. Her memory of this pact is erased and eventually her wishes begin to come true...
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Making-of Demon Hunting
Title: Making-of Demon Hunting
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.
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Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Title: Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Character: Tomie Kawakami
Released: June 29, 2002
Type: Movie
When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.
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あなたの隣の神隠し
Title: あなたの隣の神隠し
Released: June 14, 2002
Type: Movie
In a joint project with the mystery magazine "Mu," idols Nozomi Ando and Mariya Yanagisawa dissect "Kamikakushi" (Spirited Away) and other "Kamikakushi" stories from multiple perspectives in an intellectually entertaining and in-depth report of facts not generally known to the public.
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Onmyōji Abenoseimei
Title: Onmyōji Abenoseimei
Released: October 26, 2001
Type: Movie
After the millennium time, the truth of revealed now. You can understand all of the mysterious! She goes on a journey across the thousand year’s space-time to learn the truth of the greatest mystery of Japanese history [the legendary cloud]. "Sakuya Youkai" The super-mystery experience drama starring Nozomi Ando.
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Title: Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Character: Sakuya
Released: December 8, 2000
Type: Movie
The eruption of Mt. Fuji in 1707 released hordes of demons from deep inside the earth. Sakuya, the young daughter of a samurai killed fighting these demons, accepts a mission to travel to Mt. Fuji and defeat the evil spirits. Accompanying her on her journey are two veteran warriors who served her father, and Tarō, a young kappa, or river spirit, whom she has adopted as her little brother. Along the way, the two warriors have doubts about Tarō’s loyalties, and the young kappa himself must decide if he will stand with his own species or with the humans who have cared for him.
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The Face Burglar
Title: The Face Burglar
Character: Sayaka Hamaoka
Released: August 4, 2000
Type: Movie
I want to be this girl! Momoko Kamei has the mysterious ability to mimic any woman's face while imitating what she wears and the way she speaks. Not knowing such a secret, Takafumi, who was fed up with Momoko's relentless stalking, said, "Go out with me!"
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Title: Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Character: Miyuki Moribe
Released: March 6, 1999
Type: Movie
With the Gyaos re-emerging, Gamera's ties to humanity have been severed with his bond to Asagi broken. Nagamine and Asagi investigate while an orphaned girl named Ayana discovers a new creature she names Iris. Nagamine and Asagi must reach Ayana before she takes her revenge on Gamera, who she blames for the death of her family.
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15 Second Cinderellas
Title: 15 Second Cinderellas
Released: July 22, 1998
Type: Movie