is a Japanese
actress.
Career
Ando won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the 31st
Yokohama Film Festival
The is an annual awards ceremony held in Yokohama, Japan. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year and various awards are given to personnel. The first festival, held on February 3, 1980, was a small affair by fans and film critics. In 1994, ...
2010 for ''
Love Exposure'', ''
The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio'' and ''
Tsumitoka batsutoka
is a 2009 Japanese film directed by Keralino Sandorovich.
Awards
31st Yokohama Film Festival
*Won: Best Supporting Actress - Sakura Ando
References
2009 films
Films directed by Keralino Sandorovich
2000s Japanese films
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''. 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
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, film critic and a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. Although he has worked in a variety of genres, Kurosawa is best known for his many contributions to the Japanese horror genre, his honorific ...
's 2012 television drama ''
Penance
Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of Repentance (theology), repentance for Christian views on sin, sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic Church, Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox s ...
''.
She has also appeared in films such as ''The Samurai That Night'', ''
Our Homeland
is a 2012 Japanese drama film about a Korean man's visit to his family in Japan after a long exile in North Korea. This is the feature debut of Yang Yong-hi, a second-generation ethnic Korean living in Japan who based the film on her family ...
'', 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."
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards
Family tree
References
External links
Official profile*
1986 births
Actresses from Tokyo
Japanese film actresses
Living people
Asadora lead actors
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