Mariko Okada
Acting • Born 1933-01-11
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.
Filmography
128 credits
The Whisper of Spring
Movie • 1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
Runaway Bride
Movie • 1956
Late Autumn
Movie • 1960
Yuriko Sasaki
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Movie • 1954
Akemi
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
Movie • 1955
Akemi
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Akemi
Tampopo
Movie • 1985
Spaghetti Teacher
Futari dake no toride
Movie • 1963
An Edoite Judge
Movie • 1953
Koto
White Fish
Movie • 1953
Kuniko
Flower in a Storm
Movie • 1962
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie • 1962
Flowing
Movie • 1956
Nanako
A Roaring Trade
Movie • 1962
Illusion of Blood
Movie • 1965
Oiwa
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 1962
Akiko
The Estuary
Movie • 1961
Shirai Gonpachi
Movie • 1956
Komurasaki
Eros + Massacre
Movie • 1969
Noe Ito / Mako Ito
Floating Clouds
Movie • 1955
Sei Mukai
Bridge
Movie • 1959
Yakuza bayashi
Movie • 1954
Tale of Scarlet Love
Movie • 1963
Farewell to the Summer Light
Movie • 1968
Naoko Toba
Heroic Purgatory
Movie • 1970
Nanako Shoda
Affair in the Snow
Movie • 1968
Yuriko Anzai
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie • 1957
Rika
Frozen River
Movie • 1976
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Movie • 1958
Rika
A Story Written with Water
Movie • 1965
Shizuka Matsutani
Kiriko no unmei
Movie • 1962
The Affair
Movie • 1967
Oriko
Spring Dreams
Movie • 1960
Chizuko Okudaira
Enraptured
Movie • 1961
Senya
Niizuma no shitatari
Movie • 1976
Love's Family Tree
Movie • 1961
Hunting Rifle
Movie • 1961
Midori Misugi
Ai to kanashimi to
Movie • 1962
Impasse
Movie • 1967
Tatsuko Ibuki
Woman of the Lake
Movie • 1966
Miyako Mizuki
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie • 1962
Shinko
Confessions Among Actresses
Movie • 1971
Kyoko Ichimori
Women in the Mirror
Movie • 2003
Ai Kawase
Women of Tokyo
Movie • 1961
Eiko Kurita
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1951
Shinako
Records of loyal vassals
Movie • 1962
Okatsu
The Scent of Incense
Movie • 1964
Tomoko
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Movie • 2005
Navi
Rebels on the High Sea
Movie • 1956
Miki
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie • 1955
Saeko
Proof of the Man
Movie • 1977
Kyoko Yasugi
Ai no Noutan
Movie • 1959
When It Rains, It Pours
Movie • 1957
Matsuko Abe
Wedding Season
Movie • 1954
House of Many Pleasures
Movie • 1955
Suzuyo
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
Waterfront Blues
Movie • 1970
Maki Kamijo
Hakuro no Shibijin
Movie • 2004
Kazuko Izawa
I Am a Cat
Movie • 1975
Hanako
Two Wives
Movie • 1967
Uzu
Movie • 1961
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Movie • 1960
Akie Tsugawa
Bot-chan
Movie • 1953
Madonna
Appassionata
Movie • 1984
Sei Shimamura
The Time of Reckoning
Movie • 1968
The End of the Night
Movie • 1953
Domineering
Movie • 1982
Hiroko Tadokoro
The Lovers
Movie • 1953
Yoshi
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Movie • 2008
Self
A Taxing Woman
Movie • 1987
Mitsuko Sugiura
No Time for Tears
Movie • 1955
Michiko
Farewell Rabaul
Movie • 1954
Sumiko Komatsu
Sing, Young People!
Movie • 1963
Mariko Okada
I Lived, But...
Movie • 1983
Self
The Geisha House
Movie • 1999
Hanaman's owner
The Fall of Ako Castle
Movie • 1978
Riku Ohishi
The Face
Movie • 1957
Akiko Mizuhara
Escape from Hell
Movie • 1963
Kumi
The Days of Evil Women
Movie • 1958
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
Movie • 1998
Asakura Takako
The Adorable Trio
Movie • 1957
Michiko Saeki
Cross-Currents
Movie • 1972
Fujie Kaizuka
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie • 1959
Hot Corner Murder
Movie • 1960
Aiko
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie • 1965
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Movie • 1952
Yasukichi's niece
1750 Days of Turbulence
Movie • 1990
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Movie • 1979
Kyoko Yasugi
To Love and Forgive
Movie • 1955
The Lone Journey
Movie • 1955
Otaka
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
Movie • 2000
Tokiko Matsuzaki
Lovetide
Movie • 1955
Sonoko
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Movie • 1977
This Year's Love
Movie • 1962
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
Double Wedding
Movie • 1963
Natsuko
Scoundrel
Movie • 1956
Adolescence
Movie • 1952
Mayumi Nishida
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie • 1953
The young woman
A Man Among Men
Movie • 1955
Michiko
Girls in the Orchard
Movie • 1953
Rainy Night Duel
Movie • 1956
Kikuko Kamo
Price of Life
Movie • 1971
Umi no Chizu
Movie • 1959
Akiko
Morishige, where are you going?
Movie • 1956
Michiyo
Eavesdropping Woman
Movie • 1986
Shūkin ryokō
Movie • 1957
喜劇 各駅停車
Movie • 1965
ある落日
Movie • 1959
Netsuai sha
Movie • 1961
Yoriko Tsushima
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Movie • 1958
Yuri Ebihara
Talkative Company President
Movie • 1957
Mayumi Shoji
Okinawa Interlude
Movie • 1959
Hibi no haishin
Movie • 1958
The Stronger Sex
Movie • 1967
女たちの庭
Movie • 1967
真山紀子
People Waiting for Spring
Movie • 1959
Junko Murai
Hanayome no o noroke
Movie • 1958
Eiko Abe
Young Love Conquers All
Movie • 1955
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Movie • 1967
Kyoko Otaguro
Genroku Taiheiki
TV • 1975
Riku
Three Sisters
TV • 1967
Nagai Mura
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV • 1983
Teruko Momiji
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
TV • 1983
Kazuko Izawa
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
TV • 1979
丹後・宮津殺人岬
TV • 1988
Downtown Story
TV