Mariko Okada
Biography
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.
Movies (128)
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005
Hakuro no Shibijin
2004
Women in the Mirror
2003
The Geisha House
1999
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990
A Taxing Woman
1987
Eavesdropping Woman
1986
Tampopo
1985
Appassionata
1984
I Lived, But...
1983
Domineering
1982
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
Proof of the Man
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
Niizuma no shitatari
1976
Frozen River
1976
I Am a Cat
1975
Cross-Currents
1972
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
Price of Life
1971
Waterfront Blues
1970
Heroic Purgatory
1970
Eros + Massacre
1969
Farewell to the Summer Light
1968
The Time of Reckoning
1968
Affair in the Snow
1968
Impasse
1967
The Stronger Sex
1967
女たちの庭
1967
The Affair
1967
Two Wives
1967
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
1967
Woman of the Lake
1966
A Story Written with Water
1965
喜劇 各駅停車
1965
Illusion of Blood
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
The Scent of Incense
1964
Tale of Scarlet Love
1963
Double Wedding
1963
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
Futari dake no toride
1963
Escape from Hell
1963
Sing, Young People!
1963
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Zoku aizen katsura
1962
Records of loyal vassals
1962
Ai to kanashimi to
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
Kiriko no unmei
1962
Flower in a Storm
1962
This Year's Love
1962
A Roaring Trade
1962
Love's Family Tree
1961
Netsuai sha
1961
The Estuary
1961
Women of Tokyo
1961
Uzu
1961
Hunting Rifle
1961
Late Autumn
1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
Banana
1960
Hot Corner Murder
1960
Spring Dreams
1960
Kiri aru jyoji
1959
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Okinawa Interlude
1959
Umi no Chizu
1959
ある落日
1959
Bridge
1959
Ai no Noutan
1959
People Waiting for Spring
1959
The Days of Evil Women
1958
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958
Hibi no haishin
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
Hanayome no o noroke
1958
The Adorable Trio
1957
Shūkin ryokō
1957
Monkey Business
1957
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
The Face
1957
The Luckiest Dai
1957
Talkative Company President
1957
Flowing
1956
Women in Prison
1956
Rebels on the High Sea
1956
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
Scoundrel
1956
Runaway Bride
1956
Shirai Gonpachi
1956
Rainy Night Duel
1956
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
Young Love Conquers All
1955
To Love and Forgive
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
The Lone Journey
1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
House of Many Pleasures
1955
No Time for Tears
1955
Floating Clouds
1955
Lovetide
1955
A Man Among Men
1955
Wedding Season
1954
New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
1954
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954
Yakuza bayashi
1954
Geisha Konatsu
1954
Farewell Rabaul
1954
The Lovers
1953
Girls in the Orchard
1953
White Fish
1953
Bot-chan
1953
The End of the Night
1953
An Edoite Judge
1953
Husband and Wife
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
The Whisper of Spring
1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952
Adolescence
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Grease Paint Serenade
1952
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Dancing Girl
1951
