Known For
Acting
Born
Jan 11, 1933
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
153 titles
Mariko Okada
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.
Known For
Filmography
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Self
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Navi
Hakuro no Shibijin
Kazuko Izawa
Women in the Mirror
Ai Kawase
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
Tokiko Matsuzaki
The Geisha House
Hanaman's owner
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
Asakura Takako
1750 Days of Turbulence
丹後・宮津殺人岬
A Taxing Woman
Mitsuko Sugiura
Eavesdropping Woman
Tampopo
Spaghetti Teacher
Appassionata
Sei Shimamura
I Lived, But...
Self
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
Teruko Momiji
Domineering
Hiroko Tadokoro
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Kyoko Yasugi
The Fall of Ako Castle
Riku Ohishi
Proof of the Man
Kyoko Yasugi
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Niizuma no shitatari
Frozen River
I Am a Cat
Hanako
Genroku Taiheiki
Riku
Coup d'Etat
Producer
Cross-Currents
Fujie Kaizuka
Confessions Among Actresses
Kyoko Ichimori
Price of Life
Waterfront Blues
Maki Kamijo
Heroic Purgatory
Nanako Shoda
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
Eros + Massacre
Noe Ito / Mako Ito
Farewell to the Summer Light
Naoko Toba
The Time of Reckoning
Michiko Asai
Affair in the Snow
Yuriko Anzai
Impasse
Tatsuko Ibuki
The Stronger Sex
Family of Women
真山紀子
The Affair
Oriko
Two Wives
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Kyoko Otaguro
Three Sisters
Nagai Mura
Woman of the Lake
Miyako Mizuki
A Story Written with Water
Shizuka Matsutani
Retirement of a Train Engineer
Illusion of Blood
Oiwa
The Radish and the Carrot
The Scent of Incense
Tomoko
Tale of Scarlet Love