Momoko Ando

Momoko Ando (安藤 桃子) is a Japanese film director and novelist.

Life and career
Ando's father is actor Eiji Okuda and her mother the essayist Kazu Ando. She studied in the United Kingdom, and graduated from the University of London's Faculty of Arts. Later on, Ando went to New York University and learned film making, and started working as supervisory assistant.

In 2010, she made her directorial debut with the film Kakera: A Piece of Our Life based on a manga. In 2011, Ando wrote the novel 0.5 mm.

On March 14, 2014, Ando announced that she had married a non-celebrity. Simultaneously, she announced her pregnancy with her first child. Ando gave birth to the couple's first child in March 2015. In the same year, Ando made her novel 0.5 mm into the film of the same name, and served as the screenwriter and director. The film starred her sister Sakura Ando. The movie was filmed in Kōchi, Kōchi.

Films
※Directorial works only