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.
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Movies (45)
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as Self
2008
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
as Navi
2005
Hakuro no Shibijin
as Kazuko Izawa
2004
Women in the Mirror
as Ai Kawase
2003
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
as Tokiko Matsuzaki
2000
The Geisha House
as Hanaman's owner
1999
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
as Asakura Takako
1998
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990
A Taxing Woman
as Mitsuko Sugiura
1987
Eavesdropping Woman
1986
Tampopo
as Spaghetti Teacher
1985
Appassionata
as Sei Shimamura
1984
I Lived, But...
as Self
1983
Domineering
as Hiroko Tadokoro
1982
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Kyoko Yasugi
1979
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Riku Ohishi
1978
Proof of the Man
as Kyoko Yasugi
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
Niizuma no shitatari
1976
Frozen River
1976
I Am a Cat
as Hanako
1975
Coup d'Etat
Producer (Production)
1973
Cross-Currents
as Fujie Kaizuka
1972
Confessions Among Actresses
as Kyoko Ichimori
1971
Price of Life
1971
Waterfront Blues
as Maki Kamijo
1970
Heroic Purgatory
as Nanako Shoda
1970
Eros + Massacre
as Noe Ito / Mako Ito
1969
Farewell to the Summer Light
as Naoko Toba
1968
The Time of Reckoning
1968
Affair in the Snow
as Yuriko Anzai
1968
Impasse
as Tatsuko Ibuki
1967
The Stronger Sex
1967
女たちの庭
as 真山紀子
1967
The Affair
as Oriko
1967
Two Wives
1967
Woman of the Lake
as Miyako Mizuki
1966
A Story Written with Water
as Shizuka Matsutani
1965
喜劇 各駅停車
1965
Illusion of Blood
as Oiwa
1965
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
The Scent of Incense
as Tomoko
1964
Tale of Scarlet Love
1963
Double Wedding
as Natsuko
1963
Futari dake no toride
1963
