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.
146 movies · 5 shows
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008·0.0
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005·7.3
Hakuro no Shibijin
2004·0.0
Women in the Mirror
2003·7.9
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
2000·0.0
The Geisha House
1999·7.7
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1998·0.0
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990·8.3
A Taxing Woman
1987·6.7
Eavesdropping Woman
1986·0.0
Tampopo
1985·7.8
Appassionata
1984·6.3
I Lived, But...
1983·6.8
Domineering
1982·6.0
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979·6.3
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978·6.8
Proof of the Man
1977·7.8
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977·7.0
Niizuma no shitatari
1976·0.0
Frozen River
1976·3.0
I Am a Cat
1975·4.0
Cross-Currents
1972·6.3
Confessions Among Actresses
1971·6.0
Price of Life
1971·0.0
Waterfront Blues
1970·7.0
Heroic Purgatory
1970·7.0
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
1970·0.0
Eros + Massacre
1969·7.3
Farewell to the Summer Light
1968·6.9
The Time of Reckoning
1968·7.5
Affair in the Snow
1968·6.9
Impasse
1967·6.4
The Stronger Sex
1967·0.0
Family of Women
1967·0.0
The Affair
1967·6.5
Two Wives
1967·7.3
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
1967·0.0
Woman of the Lake
1966·7.0
A Story Written with Water
1965·6.2
Retirement of a Train Engineer
1965·0.0
Illusion of Blood
1965·6.4
The Radish and the Carrot
1965·9.0
The Scent of Incense
1964·7.2
Tale of Scarlet Love
1963·0.0
Double Wedding
1963·0.0
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963·0.0
Futari dake no toride
1963·9.0
Escape from Hell
1963·6.8
Sing, Young People!
1963·6.2
An Autumn Afternoon
1962·7.9
Zoku aizen katsura
1962·0.0
Records of loyal vassals
1962·0.0
Ai to kanashimi to
1962·0.0
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962·6.6
Kiriko no unmei
1962·0.0
Flower in a Storm
1962·0.0
This Year's Love
1962·6.8
A Roaring Trade
1962·0.0
Love's Family Tree
1961·0.0
Netsuai sha
1961·9.0
The Estuary
1961·0.0
Enraptured
1961·0.0
Women of Tokyo
1961·0.0
Uzu
1961·0.0
Hunting Rifle
1961·8.0
Late Autumn
1960·7.7
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960·9.0
Banana
1960·0.0
Hot Corner Murder
1960·0.0
Spring Dreams
1960·6.0
Kiri aru jyoji
1959·0.0
Tokyo Omnibus
1959·0.0
Okinawa Interlude
1959·0.0
Umi no Chizu
1959·0.0
ある落日
1959·0.0
Bridge
1959·0.0
Ai no Noutan
1959·0.0
People Waiting for Spring
1959·0.0
The Days of Evil Women
1958·7.0
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958·0.0
Gendai Mushuku
1958·0.0
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958·0.0
Doronko tengoku
1958·0.0
Hibi no haishin
1958·0.0
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958·5.4
Hanayome no o noroke
1958·0.0
The Adorable Trio
1957·0.0
Shūkin ryokō
1957·0.0
Monkey Business
1957·0.0
Her Hoodlum Lover
1957·0.0
Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari
1957·0.0
When It Rains, It Pours
1957·6.0
Ninjō misui
1957·0.0
Turtledove
1957·0.0
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957·6.5
The Face
1957·0.0
The Luckiest Dai
1957·0.0
Talkative Company President
1957·9.0
Flowing
1956·7.2
Women in Prison
1956·4.0
Rebels on the High Sea
1956·9.0
Newlywed of the First Section
1956·0.0
Morishige, where are you going?
1956·0.0
Scoundrel
1956·0.0
Runaway Bride
1956·0.0
Shirai Gonpachi
1956·0.0
Beyond The Stars
1956·0.0
Rainy Night Duel
1956·8.0
All Sold Out
1956·0.0
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956·7.2
Young Love Conquers All
1955·7.0
To Love and Forgive
1955·0.0
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955·8.0
The Lone Journey
1955·9.0
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955·7.2
House of Many Pleasures
1955·9.0
No Time for Tears
1955·9.0
Floating Clouds
1955·7.7
Lovetide
1955·8.0
A Man Among Men
1955·8.0
Wedding Season
1954·0.0
New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
1954·0.0
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954·7.2
Love Express
1954·0.0
Yakuza bayashi
1954·10.0
Geisha Konatsu
1954·0.0
Farewell Rabaul
1954·8.1
Mama's Diary
1954·0.0
The Lovers
1953·8.0
Girls in the Orchard
1953·8.0
A Song of Little Men
1953·0.0
White Fish
1953·7.0
Bot-chan
1953·10.0
The End of the Night
1953·10.0
An Edoite Judge
1953·0.0
Husband and Wife
1953·6.9
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953·7.0
Town of Seven Colors
1952·0.0
The Whisper of Spring
1952·10.0
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952·8.0
A Guide to Marriage
1952·0.0
Adolescence
1952·10.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952·9.0
Grease Paint Serenade
1952·0.0
A Meeting of Youths
1952·0.0
Dancing Girl
1951·6.4