Mariko Okada

Acting

Born Jan 11, 1933

From 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.

Mariko Okada

Known For

Tampopo

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A Taxing Woman

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Proof of the Man

Late Autumn

Confessions Among Actresses

An Autumn Afternoon

The Fall of Ako Castle

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Filmography — Acting

Tampopo

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

A Taxing Woman

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Proof of the Man

Late Autumn

Confessions Among Actresses

An Autumn Afternoon

The Fall of Ako Castle

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Farewell Rabaul

Floating Clouds

Flowing

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

Eros + Massacre

A Story Written with Water

The Geisha House

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Akitsu Hot Springs

Sing, Young People!

Two Wives

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

The Radish and the Carrot

Japanese Humanity and Justice

Appassionata

The Affair

I Lived, But...

Husband and Wife

Woman of the Lake

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

My Wonderful Yellow Car

Talkative Company President

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

No Time for Tears

A Man Among Men

Spring Dreams

Dancing Girl

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

The Time of Reckoning

Escape from Hell

Women in the Mirror

Tokyo Omnibus

Netsuai sha

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi

The Scent of Incense

Heroic Purgatory

The Lone Journey

Illusion of Blood

Rebels on the High Sea

I Am a Cat

Cross-Currents

Hibi no haishin

Frozen River

Price of Life

House of Many Pleasures

Hakuro no Shibijin

White Fish

Rainy Night Duel

Zoku aizen katsura

Ai to kanashimi to

Wedding Season

Umi no Chizu

Yakuza bayashi

Kiriko no unmei

The End of the Night

Bot-chan

This Year's Love

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