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