
Mariko Okada
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.
145 acting credits
Acting · 145

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
1983

Three Sisters
1967

Genroku Taiheiki
1975

Downtown Story
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Tampopo
1985

Floating Clouds
1955

An Autumn Afternoon
1962

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956

Late Autumn
1960

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978

Proof of the Man
1977

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957

Spring Dreams
1960

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979

A Story Written with Water
1965

Rebels on the High Sea
1956

Appassionata
1984

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005

Confessions Among Actresses
1971

A Taxing Woman
1987

Farewell Rabaul
1954

Cross-Currents
1972
丹後・宮津殺人岬
1988

Flowing
1956

The Radish and the Carrot
1965

I Am a Cat
1975

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958

Frozen River
1976

1750 Days of Turbulence
1990

Two Wives
1967

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962

Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977

I Lived, But...
1983

The Geisha House
1999

Hakuro no Shibijin
2004

The End of the Night
1953

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955

Eros + Massacre
1969

Dancing Girl
1951

No Time for Tears
1955

The Affair
1967

Heroic Purgatory
1970

The Lone Journey
1955

Domineering
1982

A Man Among Men
1955

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

Husband and Wife
1953

The Time of Reckoning
1968

Escape from Hell
1963

Talkative Company President
1957

Sing, Young People!
1963

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008

Woman of the Lake
1966
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1998

The Scent of Incense
1964

Rainy Night Duel
1956

My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953

The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952

Double Wedding
1963

Women of Tokyo
1961

House of Many Pleasures
1955

Adolescence
1952

Tale of Scarlet Love
1963

Records of loyal vassals
1962

This Year's Love
1962
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
2000

Girls in the Orchard
1953

喜劇 各駅停車
1965

Tokyo Omnibus
1959

Ai to kanashimi to
1962

Eavesdropping Woman
1986

Affair in the Snow
1968

Morishige, where are you going?
1956
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
1979

Zoku aizen katsura
1962

Waterfront Blues
1970

Bot-chan
1953

The Estuary
1961

Illusion of Blood
1965

The Adorable Trio
1957

A Roaring Trade
1962

Futari dake no toride
1963

Umi no Chizu
1959

ある落日
1959

Price of Life
1971

Impasse
1967

Scoundrel
1956

White Fish
1953

Yakuza bayashi
1954

Kiriko no unmei
1962

Wedding Season
1954

Shirai Gonpachi
1956

Love's Family Tree
1961

An Edoite Judge
1953

Women in the Mirror
2003

Uzu
1961

The Lovers
1953

Okinawa Interlude
1959

Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958

Farewell to the Summer Light
1968

Hibi no haishin
1958

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960

Netsuai sha
1961

Bridge
1959

The Days of Evil Women
1958

Shūkin ryokō
1957

To Love and Forgive
1955

Runaway Bride
1956

Ai no Noutan
1959

Hunting Rifle
1961

Hot Corner Murder
1960

The Face
1957

Lovetide
1955

Flower in a Storm
1962

Women in Prison
1956

The Whisper of Spring
1952

When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Enraptured
1961

Niizuma no shitatari
1976

女たちの庭
1967

The Stronger Sex
1967

People Waiting for Spring
1959

All Sold Out
1956

New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
1954

Young Love Conquers All
1955

Whirlpool of Flowers
1958
Love Express
1954

Grease Paint Serenade
1952

Newlywed of the First Section
1956

Hanayome no o noroke
1958

The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963

Gendai Mushuku
1958

Geisha Konatsu
1954

Monkey Business
1957

Doronko tengoku
1958

Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
1967

A Meeting of Youths
1952

Mama's Diary
1954

The Luckiest Dai
1957

A Song of Little Men
1953

Beyond The Stars
1956

Kiri aru jyoji
1959

Banana
1960