Mariko Okada
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1933-01-11 (92 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Known For
Acting
(2008)
(2005)
(2004)
Hakuro no Shibijin
as Kazuko Izawa
(2003)
Women in the Mirror
as Ai Kawase
(2000)
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
as Tokiko Matsuzaki
(1999)
The Geisha House
as Hanaman's owner
(1998)
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
as Asakura Takako
(1990)
(1987)
A Taxing Woman
as Mitsuko Sugiura
(1986)
(1985)
Tampopo
as Spaghetti Teacher
(1984)
Appassionata
as Sei Shimamura
(1983)
I Lived, But...
as Self
(1982)
Domineering
as Hiroko Tadokoro
(1979)
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Kyoko Yasugi
(1978)
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Riku Ohishi
(1977)
Proof of the Man
as Kyoko Yasugi
(1977)
(1976)
(1976)
(1975)
I Am a Cat
as Hanako
(1972)
Cross-Currents
as Fujie Kaizuka
(1971)
Confessions Among Actresses
as Kyoko Ichimori
(1971)
(1970)
Heroic Purgatory
as Nanako Shoda
(1970)
Waterfront Blues
as Maki Kamijo
(1969)
Eros + Massacre
as Noe Ito / Mako Ito
(1968)
Affair in the Snow
as Yuriko Anzai
(1968)
(1968)
Farewell to the Summer Light
as Naoko Toba
(1967)
(1967)
The Affair
as Oriko
(1967)
Impasse
as Tatsuko Ibuki
(1966)
Woman of the Lake
as Miyako Mizuki
(1965)
A Story Written with Water
as Shizuka Matsutani
(1965)
(1965)
(1965)
Illusion of Blood
as Oiwa
(1964)
The Scent of Incense
as Tomoko
(1963)
Sing, Young People
as Mariko Okada
(1963)
Double Wedding
as Natsuko
(1963)
Escape from Hell
as Kumi
(1963)
(1963)
(1962)
An Autumn Afternoon
as Akiko
(1962)
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Shinko
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
(1962)
Records of loyal vassals
as Okatsu
(1962)
(1962)
(1961)
Women of Tokyo
as Eiko Kurita
(1961)
Netsuai sha
as Yoriko Tsushima
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
Enraptured
as Senya
(1961)
(1961)
Hunting Rifle
as Midori Misugi
(1960)
Late Autumn
as Yukiko Sasaki
(1960)
Spring Dreams
as Chizuko Okudaira
(1960)
Hot Corner Murder
as Aiko
(1960)
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
as Akie Tsugawa
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
Umi no Chizu
as Akiko
(1959)
(1959)
(1959)
(1958)
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
as Yuri Ebihara
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
(1957)
The Adorable Trio
as Michiko Saeki
(1957)
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Rika
(1957)
Talkative Company President
as Mayumi Shoji
(1957)
(1957)
When It Rains, It Pours
as Matsuko Abe
(1957)
The Face
as Akiko Mizuhara
(1956)
(1956)
Flowing
as Nanako
(1956)
Rainy Night Duel
as Kikuko Kamo
(1956)
Rebels on the High Sea
as Miki
(1956)
Shirai Gonpachi
as Komurasaki
(1956)
(1956)
Morishige, where are you going?
as Michiyo
(1956)
Women in Prison
as Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
(1956)
(1955)
Floating Clouds
as Sei Mukai
(1955)
(1955)
No Time for Tears
as Michiko
(1955)
A Man Among Men
as Michiko
(1955)
The Lone Journey
as Otaka
(1955)
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Saeko
(1955)
(1955)
Lovetide
as Sonoko
(1955)
(1954)
(1954)
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Akemi
(1954)
Farewell Rabaul
as Sumiko Komatsu
(1954)
(1953)
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The young woman
(1953)
(1953)
White Fish
as Kuniko
(1953)
Husband and Wife
as Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
(1953)
(1953)
Bot-chan
as Madonna
(1953)
An Edoite Judge
as Koto
(1953)
The Lovers
as Yoshi
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
Adolescence
as Mayumi Nishida
(1952)
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi's Sister
(1951)
Dancing Girl
as Shinako
Crew
(1973)
Coup d'Etat
Producer
(1962)
Akitsu Hot Springs
Costume Design, Producer
(1961)
Netsuai sha
Producer