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Sakura Ando
Tokyo, Japan
With parents in show business, perhaps it is not surprising that Sakura Ando became an actress and, moreover, later married an actor. She was born to actor/director Okuda Eiji an…
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With parents in show business, perhaps it is not surprising that Sakura Ando became an actress and, moreover, later married an actor. She was born to actor/director Okuda Eiji and celebrity Kazu Ando on 18 February 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 illness made her dizzy, caused balance problems, and at times her brain would shut down. She chose her mother's maiden surname for her professional career. Sono Sion cast her in his film Love Exposure and gave her a major break on the big screen. She won Best Supporting Actress for that role 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 films and TV series and won several more awards. She married actor Emoto Tasuku in 2012; they met on a train in 2008 and she had obtained her father's permission to date and marry. She was a boxer in 100 Yen Love, which suited her because she had practiced boxing at age fourteen. She gave birth to her first child, a girl, in 2017. She won Best Actress at the 42nd Japan Academy Prize for her work in 2018's Shoplifters. By then she was considered one of the top young actresses in Japan alongside Yu Aoi, Miyazaki Aoi, and possibly Aso Kumiko. Interestingly, she had earlier decided to retire and focus on raising her child. She is a graduate of Gakushuin Women's College.
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2026
Godzilla Minus Zero
Movie Sumiko Ota
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2026
Dora
Movie Nami
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2026
Brothers in Arms
TV show Narration
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2025
A Very Straight Neck
Movie
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2025
The Hot Spot
TV show Hiroko Takahashi
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2023
The Imaginary
Movie Lizzie (voice)
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2023
Godzilla Minus One
Movie Sumiko Ota
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2023
We're Millennials. Got a problem?: The Movie
Movie Miyashita Akane
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2023
Bad Lands
Movie Neri Hashioka
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2023
Monster
Movie Saori Mugino
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2023
Rebooting
TV show Kondo Asami
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2022
A Man
Movie Rie Taniguchi
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2022
Korosuna
Movie Omine
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2022
Tabiya Okaeri
TV show Erika Oka
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2021
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Movie Ubume
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2021
Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"
Movie Self
More credits
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2021
Ryuukou Kanbou
Movie Haruko
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2021
Girl Gun Lady
TV show Daisy
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2020
Today's Nekomura
TV show Scared wife
- 2019
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2019
Mango no Ki no Shita de
TV show Misaki Tamiya
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2018
Mampuku
TV show Imai (Tachibana) Fukuko
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2018
Shoplifters
Movie Nobuyo Shibata
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2018
Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures!
TV show Mokonyan (voice)
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2017
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Movie Grim Reaper
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2017
Tornado Girl
Movie Yu Mikami
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2017
Reminiscence
Movie Ryoko Nishina
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2017
Love Exposure: The TV-Show
TV show Aya Koike
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2017
Sound of Waves
Movie Yuko Kitagawa
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2016
Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys
Movie Yumeko
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2016
Like a Girl Playing House
TV show Onchi Eiko
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2016
We're Millennials. Got a Problem?
TV show Akane Miyashita
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2016
Seed
Movie
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2015
Asleep
Movie Terako
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2015
Her Granddaughter
Movie Misaki Akimoto
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2014
100 Yen Love
Movie Ichiko Saito
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2014
0.5 mm
Movie Sawa
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2014
Climbing to Spring
Movie Yuri Nakagawa
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2014
Hello Life from 55
TV show
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2014
Homeland
Movie Misa
