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.
A Very Straight Neck
2025
The Hot Spot
Hiroko Takahashi · (1 episode)
2025
The Imaginary
Lizzie (voice)
2023
Godzilla Minus One
Sumiko Ota
2023
We're Millennials. Got a Problem? International
Miyashita Akane
2023
Bad Lands
Neri Hashioka
2023
Monster
Saori Mugino
2023
Rebooting
Kondo Asami · (10 episodes)
2023
A Man
Rie Taniguchi
2022
Korosuna
Omine
2022
Tabiya Okaeri
Erika Oka · (4 episodes)
2022
Tabiya Okaeri
惠理子 · (8 episodes)
2022
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
Ubume
2021
Once upon a time... "Shoplifters"
2021
Ryuukou Kanbou
Haruko
2021
Girl Gun Lady
Daisy · (10 episodes)
2021
Today's Nekomura
Scared wife · (24 episodes)
2020
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！
2019
Mango no Ki no Shita de
(1 episode)
2019
Manpuku
Imai (Tachibana) Fukuko · (151 episodes)
2018
Shoplifters
Nobuyo Shibata
2018
Magic × Warrior MagiMajo Pures!
Mokonyan (voice) · (51 episodes)
2018
Destiny: The Tale of Kamakura
Grim Reaper
2017
Tornado Girl
Yu Mikami
2017
Reminiscence
Ryoko Nishina
2017
Love Exposure: The TV-Show
Aya Koike · (10 episodes)
2017
Sound of Waves
Yuko Kitagawa
2016
Dias Police: Dirty Yellow Boys
Yumeko
2016
Like a Girl Playing House
Onchi Eiko · (8 episodes)
2016
We're Millennials. Got a Problem?
Akane Miyashita · (10 episodes)
2016
Seed
2016
Asleep
Terako
2015
Her Granddaughter
Misaki Akimoto
2015
100 Yen Love
Ichiko Saito
2014
0.5 mm
Sawa
2014
Climbing to Spring
Yuri Nakagawa
2014
Homeland
Misa
2014
The Stork Nest
2013
Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi
Kyoko
2013
Penance
Akiko Takano
2013
Petal Dance
Motoko
2013
Radio
Yuki Sasayama
2013
Yellow Elephant
Kanyu the dog (voice)
2013
The Brothers Karamazov
Shiori Kurosawa · (11 episodes)
2013
Shotenin Michiru no Mi no Uebanashi
Haruko Hatsuyama · (10 episodes)
2013
The Samurai That Night
Mika
2012
Our Homeland
Rie
2012
For Love's Sake
Gum-ko
2012
ATARU
Eiko Sasai · (1 episode)
2012
Penance
Akiko Takano · (5 episodes)
2012
Teto
2010
野田ともうします。
(20 episodes)
2010
8000 Miles 2: Girls Rapper
2010
A Crowd of Three
Kayo
2010
Sweet Little Lies
Miyako
2010
All to the Sea
2010
We'll Keep Walking, That's All
Miyuki Matsunaka
2009
Torso
Mina
2009
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio
Rika Kinoshita
2009
Oh, My Buddha!
2009
Chance!
(2 episodes)
2009
Crime or Punishment?!?
Momo Mimikawa
2009
Love Exposure
Koike
2009
Make the Last Wish
Meiko
2009
Ain't No Tomorrows
Chizu
2008
Out of the Wind
Mariko Iwata
2007
A Long Walk
Waitress
2006