Nozomi Ando
Also Known As: Ando Nozomi, あんどう のぞみ
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: August 03, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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15 Second Cinderellas
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-07-22
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Fight Girls
Overview: Youth Sports film directed by Ataru Oikawa
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-25
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The Face Burglar
Overview: 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!"
Genres: Horror Romance TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-08-04
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Kibakichi
Overview: A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who feed on human flesh.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-07
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Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-12-08
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Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-29
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Gurozuka
Overview: 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!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-10-21
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World's End / Girl Friend
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Throws Out My Hometown
Overview: 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..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-01
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Anata no tonari no kamigakushi
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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Making-of Demon Hunting
Overview: Behind-the-scenes footage of Satoshi Torao's film Demon Hunting.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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L'amant
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Flic
Overview: Kazuo Murata is a detective who has lost his wife and eventually the meaning of his existence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-22
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Inagawa Junji no Anata no tonari no kowai hanashi: Natsu no Kai
Overview: 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...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-07-25
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Death 2: Engraved Cross
Overview: The birth of a horror heroine to rival Sadako and Tomie. Speak, speak, and speak more and more. Rumors and fears cannot be stopped.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-05-07
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IKUSA: The 2nd War
Overview: 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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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-07-18
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Princess HIME 1: The Woman Who Loved Too Much
Overview: A woman confirms her love for a man by testing him. What is the last action taken by the man who was being tested...?
Genres: Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Princess HIME 2: The Woman of Delusion
Overview: A woman who can only live in her fantasy. Is the landscape she sees reality or delusion...?
Genres: Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Princess HIME 3: The Woman Within the Woman
Overview: A woman who becomes morbidly “clean” by the slightest chance. What is the “last trash” she disposes of...?
Genres: Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris
Overview: 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.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-03-06
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Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel
Overview: 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 )
Genres: Mystery Comedy Family
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-08-19
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Touch
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-09-10
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Young Thugs: Chinatown Romeo and Juliet
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2007-09-28
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Demon Hunting
Overview: 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...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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The Suicide Manual
Overview: After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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The Suicide Manual 2: Intermediate Stage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2003-12-26
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 4 - The Fire Chapter
Overview: Final movie in the Sarutobi Sasuke Series. たのしいかったです。
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 1 - The Heaven Chapter
Overview: Part 1 of a 4 part series about Sarutobi Sasuke
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 2 - The Earth Chapter
Overview: Part 2 of 4 Sarutobi Sasuke Series.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-02
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Sarutobi Sasuke and the Army of Darkness 3 - The Wind Chapter
Overview: Part 3 of 4 about Sarutobi Sasuke
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-01-03
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Onmyōji Abenoseimei
Overview: 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.
Genres: Mystery Drama Documentary
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-10-26
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