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