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