Mariko Okada
Acting
- Born:
- 1933-01-11
- Place of birth:
- Tokyo, Japan
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?
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Hakuro no Shibijin
Women in the Mirror
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
The Geisha House
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1750 Days of Turbulence
The Inugami Family
丹後・宮津殺人岬
A Taxing Woman
Eavesdropping Woman
Tampopo
Appassionata
I Lived, But...
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
Domineering
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
The Fall of Ako Castle
Proof of the Man
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Niizuma no shitatari
Frozen River
I Am a Cat
Genroku Taiheiki
Cross-Currents
Confessions Among Actresses
Price of Life
Waterfront Blues
Heroic Purgatory
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
Eros + Massacre
Farewell to the Summer Light
The Time of Reckoning
Affair in the Snow
Impasse
The Stronger Sex
Family of Women
The Affair
Two Wives
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Three Sisters
Woman of the Lake
A Story Written with Water
Retirement of a Train Engineer
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Illusion of Blood
The Radish and the Carrot
The Scent of Incense
Tale of Scarlet Love
Double Wedding
The House Where Flowers Bloom
Futari dake no toride
Escape from Hell
Sing, Young People!
An Autumn Afternoon
Zoku aizen katsura
Records of loyal vassals
Ai to kanashimi to
Akitsu Hot Springs
Kiriko no unmei
Flower in a Storm
This Year's Love
A Roaring Trade
Love's Family Tree
Netsuai sha
The Estuary
Enraptured
Mizu tamari
Women of Tokyo
Uzu
Hunting Rifle
Late Autumn
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
Banana
Hot Corner Murder
Spring Dreams
Kiri aru jyoji
Tokyo Omnibus
Okinawa Interlude
Umi no Chizu
ある落日
Bridge
Ai no Noutan
People Waiting for Spring
The Days of Evil Women
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Gendai Mushuku
Whirlpool of Flowers
Doronko tengoku
Hibi no haishin
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Hanayome no o noroke
The Adorable Trio
Shūkin ryokō
Monkey Business
Her Hoodlum Lover
Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari
When It Rains, It Pours
Ninjō misui
Turtledove
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
The Face
The Luckiest Dai
Talkative Company President
Flowing
Women in Prison
Rebels on the High Sea
Newlywed of the First Section
Morishige, where are you going?
Scoundrel
Housewives Are Suing
Runaway Bride
Shirai Gonpachi
Beyond The Stars
Rainy Night Duel
All Sold Out
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Young Love Conquers All
To Love and Forgive
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
The Lone Journey
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
House of Many Pleasures
No Time for Tears
Floating Clouds
Lovetide
A Man Among Men
Wedding Season
New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple
New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Love Express
Yakuza bayashi
Geisha Konatsu
Farewell Rabaul
Mama's Diary
The Lovers
Girls in the Orchard
A Song of Little Men
White Fish
Bot-chan
The End of the Night
An Edoite Judge
Husband and Wife
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Town of Seven Colors
The Whisper of Spring
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
A Guide to Marriage
Adolescence
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Grease Paint Serenade
A Meeting of Youths
Dancing Girl
Downtown Story