Shift change the pressure of the 'entertainment family' Philosophy of film director Momoko Ando | April 2022 | Business plan online

Momoko Ando has made a name for herself from early on as a film director and screenwriter. She also has the aspect of being the eldest daughter of Japan's most famous entertainment family. It is said that he lived with complicated feelings during his sensitive period, but the content he talks about his home environment in the media is frank and full of humor. It's the movie itself. Experience Ando's unique perspective and broad-minded thought, which was nurtured in an environment full of love.

Text by Naomi Yui

Momoko Ando (Film Director)

As a young girl, she left Japan to escape social values ​​and face herself

As the eldest daughter of Eiji Okuda, an actor and film director, and Kazu Ando, ​​an essayist and commentator. She was born and her younger sister is actress Sakura Ando. From the moment she was born she grew up being a "daughter of celebrities" and it wouldn't be all fun. Rather, the crampedness will prevail.

"Is my house different from other houses? It was around 5 years old when I started to be aware of my relationship with the outside world. Perhaps he was sensitive to "judgment by the eye." I think that modern society tends to categorize everything into genres. By categorizing, it seems that we are protecting that range, but in reality, we are categorizing. As we go along, our hearts will be divided and we will lose sight of our sense of unity.I feel that we are swayed by information that we do not know who started it, and that we are often trying to measure it with vague social values ​​and standards.”

Ando himself was conscious of other people's eyes from an early age, and he was swayed by the so-called "social values" of being "a child of a celebrity family" during his sensitive period.