Sakura Ando
Acting • Born 1986-02-18
Biography
With parents in the show business perhaps it is not surprising that Sakura Ando would become an actress and, moreover, also end up marrying an actor. She was born to actor/director Okuda Eiji and celebrity Kazu Ando on 18.02.1986. Her great grandfather was prime minister Tsuyoshi. Her older sister is director Ando Momoko. She saw her father on stage at age five and decided to become an actress while in second grade. She was often ill as a child. Her disease made her dizzy, lose her balance and more throughout her childhood. Her brain would shut down. She would opt for her mother's maiden surname for her professional career. Sono Sion picked her for his film Love Exposure and gave her a major start on the big screen. She won an award as the Best Supporting Actress for her work in it at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival. Earlier her father cast her in his film Kaze No Sotogawa ('Outside The Wind') alongside her mother and sister. She has since appeared in multiple movies and serials and won several more awards. She married actor Emoto Tasuku in 2012. She had met him on a train in 2008 and had obtained her father's permission to date and marry. She was a boxer in 100 Yen Love, which was fortunate since she had practiced boxing when she was fourteen-years-old. She gave birth to her first child, a girl, in 2017. She won the award for Best Actress at the 42nd Japan Academy Prize for her work on 2018's Shoplifters. By then she was considered one of several top young actresses in Japan next to Yu Aoi, Miyazaki Aoi and perhaps Aso Kumiko. Interestingly, she had earlier decided to retire and focus on raising her child. She is a graduate of Gakushuin Women's College.
Filmography
69 credits
Love Exposure
Movie • 2008
Koike
Oh, My Buddha!
Movie • 2009
Ain't No Tomorrows
Movie • 2008
Chizu
Bad Lands
Movie • 2023
Neri Hashioka
孤独のグルメ2019大晦日スペシャル 緊急指令！ 成田～福岡～釜山 弾丸出張編！
Movie • 2019
A Crowd of Three
Movie • 2010
Kayo
Our Homeland
Movie • 2012
Rie
For Love's Sake
Movie • 2012
Gum-ko
We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie
Movie • 2023
Miyashita Akane
The Samurai That Night
Movie • 2012
Mika
Torso
Movie • 2009
Mina
The Imaginary
Movie • 2023
Lizzie (voice)
Yellow Elephant
Movie • 2013
Kanyu the dog (voice)
Petal Dance
Movie • 2013
Motoko
Godzilla Minus One
Movie • 2023
Sumiko Ota
8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
Movie • 2010
Homeland
Movie • 2014
Misa
0.5 mm
Movie • 2014
Sawa
Climbing to Spring
Movie • 2014
Yuri Nakagawa
Sweet Little Lies
Movie • 2010
Miyako
Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Movie • 2013
Kyoko
A Long Walk
Movie • 2006
Waitress
100 Yen Love
Movie • 2014
Ichiko Saito
Korosuna
Movie • 2022
Omine
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Movie • 2009
Rika Kinoshita
Asleep
Movie • 2015
Terako
Her Granddaughter
Movie • 2015
Misaki Akimoto
Penance
Movie • 2013
Akiko Takano
Out of the Wind
Movie • 2007
Mariko Iwata
Monster
Movie • 2023
Saori Mugino
We'll Keep Walking, That's All
Movie • 2009
Miyuki Matsunaka
Crime or Punishment?!?
Movie • 2009
Momo Mimikawa
Seed
Movie • 2016
Sound of Waves
Movie • 2017
Yuko Kitagawa
Reminiscence
Movie • 2017
Ryoko Nishina
Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys
Movie • 2016
Yumeko
Tornado Girl
Movie • 2017
Yu Mikami
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Movie • 2017
Grim Reaper
Shoplifters
Movie • 2018
Nobuyo Shibata
Teto
Movie • 2010
The Stork Nest
Movie • 2013
Make the Last Wish
Movie • 2009
Meiko
All to the Sea
Movie • 2010
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Movie • 2021
Ubume
Ryuukou Kanbou
Movie • 2021
Haruko
Radio
Movie • 2013
Yuki Sasayama
Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"
Movie • 2021
Self
A Man
Movie • 2022
Rie Taniguchi
A Very Straight Neck
Movie • 2025
Dora
Movie
Manpuku
TV • 2018
Imai (Tachibana) Fukuko
Girl Gun Lady
TV • 2021
Daisy
Chance!
TV • 2009
野田ともうします。
TV • 2010
Penance
TV • 2012
Akiko Takano
The Brothers Karamazov
TV • 2013
Shiori Kurosawa
ATARU
TV • 2012
Eiko Sasai
Shotenin Michiru no Mi no Uebanashi
TV • 2013
Haruko Hatsuyama
We're Millennials. Got a Problem?
TV • 2016
Akane Miyashita
Love Exposure: The TV-Show
TV • 2017
Aya Koike
Like a Girl Playing House
TV • 2016
Onchi Eiko
Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures!
TV • 2018
Mokonyan (voice)
Tabiya Okaeri
TV • 2022
Erika Oka
Mango no Ki no Shita de
TV • 2019
Misaki Tamiya
Rebooting
TV • 2023
Kondo Asami
Today's Nekomura
TV • 2020
Scared wife
Tabiya Okaeri
TV • 2022
惠理子
The Hot Spot
TV • 2025
Hiroko Takahashi
Toyotomi Kyodai
TV • 2026
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