is a Japanese

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

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 is a 2008 Japanese comedy-drama film written and directed by Sion Sono. The film gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its four-hour runtime and themes including love, family, lust, religion and the cri ...

'', ''

The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio is a 2009 Japanese comedy-crime film, directed by Daihachi Yoshida, based on Kazumasa Yoshida's 2006 biographical novel, ''Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa'' ( "Marriage swindler Captain Kuhio"), that focuses on a real-life marriage swindler, who conn ...

'' and '' Tsumitoka batsutoka''. 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 n ...

's 2012 television drama ''

Penance Penance is any act or a set of actions done out of repentance for sins committed, as well as an alternate name for the Catholic, Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox sacrament of Reconciliation or Confession. It also plays a part ...

''. She has also appeared in films such as ''The Samurai That Night'', '' Our Homeland'', and ''

Petal Dance is a 2013 Japanese film directed by Hiroshi Ishikawa. Synopsis The film concerns a trip taken by two women, Jinko (Aoi Miyazaki) and Motoko (Sakura Ando), and their driver, Haraki (Shiori Kutsuna), to see Miki (Kazue Fukiishi), an old friend no ...

''. In 2015, Ando received the CUT ABOVE Award for Outstanding Performance in Film at

JAPAN CUTS JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film is an annual festival of modern Japanese cinema held at New York City's Japan Society. The festival was first held in 2007, growing out of the Japan Society's popular bi-annual series, ''New Films from J ...

: 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."

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