
Mariko Okada
Born January 11, 1933 · Tokyo, Japan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mariko Okada (岡田 茉莉子, Okada Mariko, born 11 January 1933) is a Japanese stage and film actress who starred in films of directors Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita and others. She was married to film director Yoshishige Yoshida. Okada was born the daughter of silent film actor Tokihiko Okada (real name Eiichi Takahashi), who died the year following her birth, and raised by her mother's sister in her early childhood. She gave her film debut in Mikio Naruse's 1951 Dancing Girl, for whom she worked again in Husband and Wife, Floating Clouds and Nagareru. Unsatisfied with the roles she was assigned to, she left Toho studios after her contract expired, and signed with Shochiku. In the following years, she starred in Yasujirō Ozu's Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon, Keisuke Kinoshita's Spring Dreams and The Scent of Incense, and Heinosuke Gosho's Hunting Rifle. Between 1965 and 1971, she starred in all of Yoshida's films, independently produced melodramas narrated in an avant-garde fashion. In later years, she appeared in films like Juzo Itami's Tampopo and Shinji Aoyama's My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005), her last film role to date. She also regularly performed on stage and on television. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mariko Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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A Taxing Woman

Late Autumn

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

The Fall of Ako Castle

Floating Clouds

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

The Geisha House

A Monk in the Big City of Edo

The Tears of Geisha Konatsu

Proof of the Man

Akitsu Hot Springs

Appassionata

Flowing

Heroic Purgatory

New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple

The Scent of Incense

Geisha Konatsu

Housewives Are Suing

Eros + Massacre

All Sold Out

Hakuro no Shibijin

I Am a Cat

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

The Time of Reckoning

Two Wives

Japanese Humanity and Justice

A Story Written with Water

Zoku aizen katsura

Farewell Rabaul

Husband and Wife

1750 Days of Turbulence

Turtledove

House of Many Pleasures

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

Women in Prison

The Lovers

Scoundrel

When It Rains, It Pours

I Lived, But...

Confessions Among Actresses

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Dancing Girl

Gendai Mushuku

Hunting Rifle

Ninjō misui

People Waiting for Spring

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?

Newlywed of the First Section

Beyond The Stars

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

Tokyo Omnibus

A Song of Little Men

Domineering

A Man Among Men

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

The Face

Morishige, where are you going?

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Women in the Mirror

Kiriko no unmei

Cross-Currents

The Affair

Illusion of Blood

Her Hoodlum Lover

Sing, Young People!

The End of the Night

Monkey Business

New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears

Mizu tamari

Rebels on the High Sea

Doronko tengoku

No Time for Tears

Bot-chan

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

Spring Dreams

Hibi no haishin

Talkative Company President

Escape from Hell

Whirlpool of Flowers

Ai to kanashimi to

Impasse

To Love and Forgive

Bridge

Woman of the Lake

Flower in a Storm

Banana

Double Wedding

The Days of Evil Women

An Edoite Judge

Young Love Conquers All

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

ある落日

The Radish and the Carrot

Hanayome no o noroke

My Wonderful Yellow Car

Women of Tokyo

Rainy Night Duel

Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari

Frozen River

Adolescence

Mama's Diary

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi

The Estuary

Farewell to the Summer Light

Tale of Scarlet Love

Retirement of a Train Engineer

A Roaring Trade

Lovetide

The Luckiest Dai

Hot Corner Murder

A Guide to Marriage

Price of Life

The Adorable Trio

This Year's Love

Eavesdropping Woman

Love's Family Tree

Kiri aru jyoji

Family of Women

Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri

The House Where Flowers Bloom

White Fish

Tatakai sunde higa kurete

The Lone Journey

Runaway Bride

Shūkin ryokō

Waterfront Blues

Netsuai sha

Records of loyal vassals

Affair in the Snow

Grease Paint Serenade

The Whisper of Spring

Futari dake no toride

Town of Seven Colors

A Meeting of Youths

Ai no Noutan

Girls in the Orchard

Wedding Season

Uzu

The Stronger Sex

Shirai Gonpachi

Yakuza bayashi

Umi no Chizu

Okinawa Interlude






