biography of Sakura Andô

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October 2017
Born	February 18, 1986 (age 39) Tokyo, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	2005–present
Spouse	Tasuku Emoto (m. 2012)
Children	1
Parent	Eiji Okuda (father) Kazu Ando (mother)
Relatives	Momoko Ando (sister) Takeru Inukai (grandfather) Akira Emoto (father-in-law) Tokio Emoto (brother-in-law)

Sakura Ando

(安藤サクラ, Andō Sakura, born February 18, 1986) is a Japanese actress. She is best known for appearing in critically-acclaimed films such as Sion Sono's Love Exposure, Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters (2018) and Monster (2023), as well as Takashi Yamazaki's Academy Award–winning kaiju epic Godzilla Minus One (2023).

Career

Ando won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival 2010 for Love Exposure, The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio and Tsumitoka batsutoka.^[1]^{[clarification needed]} She was also nominated for the award for best supporting actress at 4th Asian Film Awards 2010 for A Crowd of Three.

She appeared in Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2012 television drama Penance.

She has also appeared in films such as The Samurai That Night,^[4] Our Homeland, and Petal Dance.

In 2015, Ando received the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film at JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film in New York.

In 2018, Ando received high praise for her performance as Nobuyo Shibata in director Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters, being called "fantastic" and "the stand-out", with film critic Simon Abrams stating that "Kore-eda gave Andô her character's (strictly metaphorical) dance steps, but she realizes and owns every maneuver she was asked to (and then some).... No small feat... given how subtly complicated her dance steps are."

In June 2023, Ando was invited to become a membe

mini bio :

With parents in the show business perhaps it is not surprising that Ando Sakura 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

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2006	A Long Walk	Waitress
2007	Out of the Wind	Mariko Iwata	Leading role
2008	Love Exposure	Koike
2008	Ain’t No Tomorrows	Chizu
2009	The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio	Rika
2009	Crime or Punishment?!?	Momo Mimikawa
2010	Sweet Little Lies	Miyako
2010	A Crowd of Three	Kayo	Leading role
2012	Our Homeland	Rie	Leading role
	For Love's Sake	Gamuko
	The Samurai That Night	Mika
2013	Petal Dance	Motoko
2013	Yellow Elephant	Kan'yu (voice)
2014	Homeland	Misa
	Her Granddaughter	Misaki Akimoto
	0.5 mm	Sawa Yamagishi	Leading role
	100 Yen Love	Ichiko Saito	Leading role
2015	Asleep	Terako	Leading role
2016	Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys	Yumeko
2017	Reminiscences	Ryōko Nishina
	Tornado Girl	Yū Mikami
	Sound of Waves	Yūko	Leading role
	Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura	The Grim Reaper
2018	Shoplifters	Nobuyo Shibata	Leading role
2021	The Great Yokai War: Guardians	Kokakuchō
2022	A Man	Rie Taniguchi
2023	Monster	Saori	Leading role
	Bad Lands	Neri	Leading role
	We're Millennials. Got a Problem?: The Movie	Akane Miyashita
	The Imaginary	Lizzie (voice)
	Godzilla Minus One	Sumiko Ota

trivia :

She met her husband while travelling in a bullet train. She would later claim just hearing his voice made her immediately think she would marry him.
Daughter of actor/director Eiji Okuda, and sister of filmmaker Momoko Andô.
She and her eventual husband were directed together by her father in a film in 2013.
Was invited to join the actor's branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2023.

soure : wikipedia ......... imdb

biography of Sakura Andô