Sakura Ando
Date of birth: 1986-02-18
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 안도 사쿠라, Sakura Andô, Sakura Andou, あんどう さくら, Sakura Andō, Sakura Andoh, Sakura Andow, 安藤 サクラ, 安藤樱, ساکورا آندو
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.
Movie Credits
Love Exposure
2009-01-31
The story of a teenage boy named Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the
Oh, My Buddha!
2009-08-15
Based on the semibiographical novel by Jun Miura, Oh My Buddha is the classic summer coming-of-age s
Ain't No Tomorrows
2008-11-22
17 year-old Hiruma is desperate to get laid and takes out his sexual urges on Anpai, a fat boy who h
Bad Lands
2023-09-29
A grifter and her loose-cannon brother get their hands on a massive amount of money, but their ill-g
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2019-12-31
A Crowd of Three
2010-06-12
A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a ch
Our Homeland
2012-07-01
From the late 1950s through the '70s, more than 90,000 of the ethnic Koreans in Japan emigrated to N
For Love's Sake
2012-06-16
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then
We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie
2023-10-13
Three men, born in 1987, are from the yutori ("relaxed") generation, and they continue their attempt
The Samurai That Night
2012-11-17
Five years after a hit-and-run accident kills his wife, a distraught metalworker comes face to face
Torso
2009-11-13
Hiroko is a young, alienated woman "in love" with a blow-up male torso. Tension rises when her siste
The Imaginary
2023-12-15
Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger go on thrilling make-believe adventures. But when Rudger find
Yellow Elephant
2013-02-02
Married couple Aiko Tsumari and Ayumu Muko live a happy and peaceful life. Aiko is bit naive, while
Petal Dance
2013-04-19
Long-time friends Jinko and Motoko hear that their college friend Miki has jumped into the ocean. Th
Godzilla Minus One
2023-11-03
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military
8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
2010-06-26
With Saitama no rappa 2 (AKA 8000 Miles 2 – Girls Rapper), Yu Irie tells the story of amateur girl r
Homeland
2014-03-01
Jiro Sawada is a sophomore in high school when a false accusation drives him out his hometown: a sma
0.5 mm
2014-11-08
Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h
Climbing to Spring
2014-06-14
Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the
Sweet Little Lies
2010-03-13
A husband and wife, who have not had sex in three years, both fall into extra-marital affairs.
Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
2013-08-24
Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings s
A Long Walk
2006-04-01
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apar
100 Yen Love
2014-11-15
Slacker Ichiko gets into a fight with her younger sister and begins to live on her own, working the
Korosuna
2022-01-28
Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i
Penance
2013-05-29
The murder of a young girl leaves the inhabitants of a small Japanese village in shock. The body of
Asleep
2015-04-25
Terako is a young woman without a job. She has an affair with Iwanaga who is married. His wife is in
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
2009-10-10
Set in the early 1990's, after The Persian Gulf War began, a 30 year old man passes himself off as C
Her Granddaughter
2015-02-14
Tsugumi Dozono works at a large electronics company in Tokyo. She likes to spend long vacations at h
Out of the Wind
2007-12-22
High school student Mariko sings in the choir at the all-girls school she attends, and her biggest d
Monster
2023-06-02
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering
We'll Keep Walking, That's All
2009-11-15
A young woman named Miyuki returns to her hometown, camera in hand, after a difficult breakup. As sh
Crime or Punishment?!?
2009-02-28
Riko Narumi plays an unpopular idol who in an attempt to boost her faltering career becomes police c
Seed
2016-02-17
Naomi Kawase describes Sakura Ando, the lead character in her film, as "a mysterious creature" who i
Sound of Waves
2017-01-17
Umi’s hearing is so sensitive that even notes played slightly out-of-tune give her a headache. Violi
Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys
2016-09-03
About 150,000 illegal entrants live in Tokyo. They are not recognised as refugees and live in poor c
Reminiscence
2017-05-06
A detective in Toyama is forced to confront his painful past when he takes on a murder case involvin
Tornado Girl
2017-09-16
Koroki is a 35-year old man who admires Japanese singer-songwriter Tamio Okuda and aspires to live l
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
2017-12-09
Set in an alternate universe, the ancient capital of Kamakura is a vibrant town where fantastical cr
Shoplifters
2018-06-02
In the outskirts of Tokyo, a poor but close-knit group living on the fringes of society survives thr
Teto
2010-11-16
Teto is a secret agent trainee. Hatoko is a high school student who lives on venting her anger in a
The Stork Nest
2013-11-25
A small clinic in Kumamoto Prefecture begins accepting anonymous drop-offs of unwanted newborn babie
Make the Last Wish
2009-01-09
Koike Minami returns from USA to Japan to accomplish her deceased twin sister's wish to win a compet
All to the Sea
2010-01-23
Natsuki, a sales clerk of a bookstore, and Koji. a high school student. Seemingly nothing in common,
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021-07-01
Kei Watanabe is a fifth grade elementary school student. He has inherited the hunter's blood to hunt
Ryuukou Kanbou
2021-04-10
The novelist Shiga Naoya lives with his wife Haruko and their 4-year-old daughter Saeko. He is paran
Radio
2013-03-26
Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"
2021-05-19
How did an intimate film made on a modest budget win a Palme d'Or and attract 4 million viewers in J
A Man
2022-11-18
Akira works as a lawyer. One day, he meets with his former client Rie, who asks Akira to perform a b
A Very Straight Neck
2025-08-13
A woman descends into a surreal odyssey of fragmented memories after waking with excruciating neck p
Dora
Dora, a young girl with physical and mental illness, finds healing through love, overcoming love and