Mariko Okada

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	Acting
Most Rating	11.18
Birthday	1933-01-11
Place of Birth	Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As	Марико Окада,

Late Autumn

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Tampopo

Proof of the Man

Flowing

Illusion of Blood

An Autumn Afternoon

Floating Clouds

Eros + Massacre

Heroic Purgatory

Farewell to the Summer Light

Affair in the Snow

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

A Story Written with Water

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

The Affair

Enraptured

Love's Family Tree

The Scent of Incense

Hunting Rifle

Impasse

Woman of the Lake

Akitsu Hot Springs

Confessions Among Actresses

Women in the Mirror

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?

When It Rains, It Pours

Husband and Wife

Hakuro no Shibijin

I Am a Cat

Two Wives

Spring Dreams

Bot-chan

The Time of Reckoning

Appassionata

Domineering

A Taxing Woman

No Time for Tears

The Lovers

Dancing Girl

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?

Farewell Rabaul

I Lived, But...

Sing, Young People

The Fall of Ako Castle

The Geisha House

The Face

Escape from Hell

The Days of Evil Women

The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder

The Adorable Trio

Hot Corner Murder

Cross-Currents

The Radish and the Carrot

Tokyo Omnibus

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

1750 Days of Turbulence

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

To Love and Forgive

The Lone Journey

Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide

Lovetide

Japanese Humanity and Justice

This Year's Love

Women in Prison

Double Wedding

Scoundrel

Adolescence

My Wonderful Yellow Car

A Man Among Men

Girls in the Orchard

Rainy Night Duel

Price of Life

Umi no Chizu

The Whisper of Spring

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Futari dake no toride

An Edoite Judge