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.
Acted in 150
2000s
- 2005
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Navi
- 2004
- 2003
Women in the Mirror
Ai Kawase
1990s
- 1999
The Geisha House
Hanaman's owner
- 1990
The Inugami Family
Movie
1980s
- 1987
- 1986
Eavesdropping Woman
Movie
- 1985
- 1984
- 1983
- 1982
1970s
- 1979
- 1978
- 1977
- 1976
Niizuma no shitatari
Movie
Frozen River
Movie
- 1975
Genroku Taiheiki
Riku · 52 episodes
- 1972
- 1971
Confessions Among Actresses
Kyoko Ichimori
- 1970
Waterfront Blues
Maki Kamijo
Heroic Purgatory
Nanako Shoda
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
Movie
1960s
- 1969
Eros + Massacre
Noe Ito / Mako Ito
- 1968
Farewell to the Summer Light
Naoko Toba
The Time of Reckoning
Michiko Asai
Affair in the Snow
Yuriko Anzai
- 1967
Impasse
Tatsuko Ibuki
The Stronger Sex
Movie
The Affair
Oriko
Two Wives
Movie
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Kyoko Otaguro
- 1966
Woman of the Lake
Miyako Mizuki
- 1965
A Story Written with Water
Shizuka Matsutani
Retirement of a Train Engineer
Movie
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Movie
Illusion of Blood
Oiwa
The Radish and the Carrot
Movie
- 1964
- 1963
Tale of Scarlet Love
Movie
Double Wedding
Natsuko
The House Where Flowers Bloom
Movie
Futari dake no toride
Movie
Escape from Hell
Kumi
- 1962
Zoku aizen katsura
Movie
Records of loyal vassals
Okatsu
Ai to kanashimi to
Movie
Kiriko no unmei
Movie
Flower in a Storm
Movie
This Year's Love
Movie
A Roaring Trade
Movie
- 1961
Love's Family Tree
Movie
Netsuai sha
Yoriko Tsushima
The Estuary
Movie
Mizu tamari
Movie
Women of Tokyo
Eiko Kurita
- 1960
Banana
Movie
Hot Corner Murder
Aiko
Spring Dreams
Chizuko Okudaira
1950s
- 1959
Kiri aru jyoji
Movie
Tokyo Omnibus
Movie
Okinawa Interlude
Movie
Umi no Chizu
Akiko
ある落日
Movie
Bridge
Movie
Ai no Noutan
Movie
People Waiting for Spring
Junko Murai
- 1958
The Days of Evil Women
Movie
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
Yuri Ebihara
Gendai Mushuku
Rie Kitami
Whirlpool of Flowers
Movie
Doronko tengoku
Movie
Hibi no haishin
Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Rika
Hanayome no o noroke
Eiko Abe
- 1957
The Adorable Trio
Michiko Saeki
Shūkin ryokō
Movie
Monkey Business
Chie Katsura
Her Hoodlum Lover
Ruiko Miyahara
Ninjō misui
Movie
Turtledove
Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Rika
The Luckiest Dai
Movie
Talkative Company President
Mayumi Shoji
- 1956
Flowing
Nanako
Women in Prison
Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
Rebels on the High Sea
Miki
Newlywed of the First Section
Movie
Morishige, where are you going?
Michiyo
Scoundrel
Movie
Housewives Are Suing
Movie
Runaway Bride
Movie
Shirai Gonpachi
Komurasaki
Beyond The Stars
Kosuzu
All Sold Out
Movie
- 1955
Young Love Conquers All
Movie
To Love and Forgive
Movie
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Saeko
The Lone Journey
Otaka
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
Movie
House of Many Pleasures
Suzuyo
No Time for Tears
Michiko
Floating Clouds
Sei Mukai
Lovetide
Sonoko
A Man Among Men
Michiko
- 1954
Wedding Season
Movie
New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple
Movie
New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
Movie
Yakuza bayashi
Movie
Geisha Konatsu
Natsuko
Farewell Rabaul
Sumiko Komatsu
Mama's Diary
Movie
- 1953
Girls in the Orchard
Movie
A Song of Little Men
Movie
White Fish
Kuniko
Bot-chan
Madonna
The End of the Night
Movie
An Edoite Judge
Koto
Husband and Wife
Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The young woman
- 1952
Town of Seven Colors
Movie
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Yasukichi's niece
A Guide to Marriage
Movie
Adolescence
Mayumi Nishida
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie
Grease Paint Serenade
Matsuko Takasuna
A Meeting of Youths
Sadako Takagi
- 1951
Dancing Girl
Shinako
No release date
Downtown Story
TV
Produced 3
1970s
- 1973
Coup d'Etat
Producer
1960s
- 1962
- 1961
Netsuai sha
Producer
Costume and makeup 1
1960s
- 1962
Appearances2
2000s
- 2008
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
Self
1980s
- 1983
I Lived, But...
Self