A well-known Japanese actress was asked in an interview what she wanted to say to her 3-year-old daughter?
She replied: "My daughter has small eyes, but now big eyes are popular, and I used double eyelid glue and mascara to try to make my eyes bigger when I was a teenager."
But I want to tell my daughter: "When you are a teenager, mom I will turn my little eyes into a new trend, wait!" ”
The actress who said this is the Japanese actress - Sakura Ando!
"Outliers" in the family
Sakura Ando was born on February 18, 1986 in Tokyo, Japan, and has a very prominent family.
Her maternal great-grandfather was Takeshi Inuyo, Japan's 29th Prime Minister; His maternal grandfather was Ken Inu, a former Japanese Minister of Justice; his father is the well-known Japanese actor and director Eiji Okuda; His mother was essayist Kazuzu Ando; The older sister is Momoko Ando, a well-known Japanese director and screenwriter.
When the whole family is very good, Sakura Ando seems very "alternative". Since childhood, he has not liked to read, and has often been criticized by teachers for not wanting to make progress.
During class, she was always attracted to things outside the window. She will observe how the woman picking up garbage outside the window puts the towel on her shoulder, and she will pay attention to the second sister in the corridor chewing gum...
Her love of observing others as a child may have laid the foundation for her to become a good actor in the future.
Can you be an actor if you are ugly?
When he was 5 years old, because he watched his father's stage play, becoming a good actor like his father became Sakura Ando's dream.
However, as she grew older, Sakura Ando realized that she was "not beautiful", so she gave up this long-cherished dream.
In an interview, she said: "When I was a child, I always felt that my face had nothing to do with actors, and the actors on TV were very beautiful, and if I said that I wanted to be an actor, I would definitely be ridiculed by my friends: ugly women still want to be actors, it must be due to their father's relationship." ”
When she was in high school, Sakura Ando worked in a restaurant while going to school, and she did all the dirty work, without the slightest shelf of "Miss Senkin".
When she works in a restaurant, Sakura Ando also thinks, what is her dream?
Sure enough, she still couldn't give up her dream of becoming a good actor, so after graduating from high school, she began to study acting systematically.
Punch those who once mocked themselves with strength
In 2006, she guest starred in the movie "Long Walk" directed by her father Eiji Okuda, in which she left a deep impression on her father without a few lines.
So a year later, when Eiji Okuda filmed the movie "The Outside of the Wind", the original cast could not participate, and Eiji Okuda quickly called her daughter Sakura Ando to save the scene, and Sakura Ando made a cameo appearance in the movie as a female high school student Mariko.
Obviously, his acting skills are very good, but he is still ridiculed by many people as an "ugly relationship". Sakura Ando is determined to prove herself with strength and win everyone's support.
In 2009, Sakura Ando starred in the four-hour long heterochromatic pure love movie "Exposure of Love" directed by Director Sonoko Wen, in which she played the cult girl Gucci.
With this play, she won the 31st Yokohama Film Festival Supporting Actress Award and the 24th Takasaki Film Festival Best Newcomer Award.
In 2012, Sakura Ando also starred in the feature film "Family Country".
And with this film, she won the Best Actress Award at the 55th Japan Film Blue Ribbon Awards and the 86th Japan Film Shunbun Awards for Leading Actress.
At the same time, Sakura Ando is also the first person in the history of Shunbao to include both Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
In 2014, Sakura Ando starred in the inspirational movie "Hundred Dollar Love", in which she played Kazuko Saito from a decadent otaku to a professional boxer.
From the dead fish-eyed eyes and bloated body at the beginning of the movie to the slowly a little boxer's posture in the middle, to the final eyes, limbs, figure, expression and boxing techniques all look like a changed person, and the aura is explosive.
With this makeover role, Sakura Ando won the Japan Academy Award for Best Actress.
In 2018, the film "Thief Family" starring Sakura Ando was released in Japan, which won the Palme d'Or for Best Film at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in France.
Cannes judge Cate Blanchett commented on Sakura Ando's crying scene: "If a similar crying scene appears in the works selected in the future, there is no doubt that it is imitating Sakura Ando." ”
In January 2023, the cross-genre life comedy "Restart Life" starring Sakura Ando was broadcast, and this TV series became a god as soon as it was broadcast, with a Douban score of 9.4.
With her superb acting skills, Ando Sakura interprets ordinary people with a great sense of story, watching countless audiences cry.
She plays an ordinary girl named Asami in the play, who is reborn after death and does not have Goldfinger, and only has to live an ordinary life over and over again in order to become a human in the next life...
Finally, he successfully helped his friend to survive the disaster and live a safe and happy life.
Love and career are all needed
In March 2012, Sakura Ando announced his marriage to actor Yu Shimoto. Yu Shimoto was also born into an acting family, and his father and mother were both actors.
In 2017, the two had the crystallization of their love and gave birth to a lovely daughter.
The two are also very affectionate after marriage, often "spreading dog food" in public. Yu Shimoto has also expressed his great support for his wife's career many times.
In Japan, actresses rarely appear after getting married and having children.
But this is not the case with Sakura Ando, who entered the group six months after giving birth, becoming the first female protagonist in the history of Japanese morning dramas to give birth.
Sakura Ando did it! With her superb acting skills, she has captured the hearts of thousands of audiences and reversed everyone's aesthetics, and small eyes can also be very attractive!
The new movie "Monster" starring Sakura Ando will also be released on June 22, I recommend everyone to go to the theater to support it!