Mariko Okada

Mariko Okada

1933-01-11

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.

Also appears in

Flowing

Flowing

7.1

Dancing Girl

Dancing Girl

6.3

Proof of the Man

Proof of the Man

7.4

Farewell to the Summer Light

Farewell to the Summer Light

7.0

The Affair

The Affair

6.6

Bridge

Bridge

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Husband and Wife

Husband and Wife

6.6

Ai to kanashimi to

Ai to kanashimi to

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Spring Dreams

Spring Dreams

5.8

Yakuza bayashi

Yakuza bayashi

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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

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Escape from Hell

Escape from Hell

6.2

Appassionata

Appassionata

5.0

Two Wives

Two Wives

7.4

The Scent of Incense

The Scent of Incense

7.2

Uzu

Uzu

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Flower in a Storm

Flower in a Storm

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Morishige, where are you going?

Morishige, where are you going?

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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

5.3

The Lone Journey

The Lone Journey

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