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.

Cast

The Whisper of Spring

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Nigetekita hanayome

Late Autumn

(Yukiko Sasaki)

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

(Akemi)

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

(Akemi)

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

(Akemi)

Tampopo

(Spaghetti Teacher)

Futari dake no toride

An Edoite Judge

(Koto)

White Fish

(Kuniko)

Flower in a Storm

Zoku aizen katsura

Flowing

(Nanako)

A Roaring Trade

Illusion of Blood

(Oiwa)

An Autumn Afternoon

(Akiko)

The Estuary

Shirai Gonpachi

(Komurasaki)

Eros + Massacre

(Noe Ito / Mako Ito)

Floating Clouds

(Sei Mukai)

Yakuza bayashi

Bridge

Tale of Scarlet Love

Farewell to the Summer Light

(Naoko Toba)

Heroic Purgatory

(Nanako)

Affair in the Snow

(Yuriko Anzai)

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

(Rika)

Frozen River

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

(Rika)

A Story Written with Water

(Shizuka Matsutani)

Kiriko no unmei

The Affair

(Oriko)

Spring Dreams

(Chizuko Okudaira)

Enraptured

(Senya)

Niizuma no shitatari

Love's Family Tree

Hunting Rifle

(Midori Misugi)

Ai to kanashimi to

Impasse

(Tatsuko Ibuki)

Woman of the Lake

(Miyako Mizuki)

Confessions Among Actresses

(Kyoko Ichimori)

Women in the Mirror

(Ai Kawase)

Akitsu Hot Springs

(Shinko)

Women of Tokyo

(Eiko Kurita)

Dancing Girl

(Shinako)

Records of loyal vassals

(Okatsu)

The Scent of Incense

(Tomoko)

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

(Navi)

Rebels on the High Sea

(Miki)

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

(Saeko)

Proof of the Man

(Kyoko Yasugi)

Ai no Noutan

When It Rains, It Pours

(Matsuko Abe)

Wedding Season

(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home

(Suzuyo)

Husband and Wife

(Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister)

Waterfront Blues

(Maki Kamijo)

Hakuro no Shibijin

(Kazuko Izawa)

I Am a Cat

(Hanako)

Two Wives

Uzu

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

(Akie Tsugawa)

Bot-chan

(Madonna)

Appassionata

(Sei Shimamura)

The Time of Reckoning

The End of the Night

Domineering

(Hiroko Tadokoro)

The Lovers

(Yoshi)

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?

(Self)

A Taxing Woman

(Mitsuko Sugiura)

No Time for Tears

(Michiko)

Farewell Rabaul

(Sumiko Komatsu)

Sing, Young People

(Mariko Okada)

I Lived, But...

(Self)

The Geisha House

(Hanaman's owner)

The Fall of Ako Castle

(Riku Ohishi)

The Face

(Akiko Mizuhara)

Escape from Hell

(Kumi)

The Days of Evil Women

The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder

(Asakura Takako)

The Adorable Trio

(Michiko Saeki)

Cross-Currents

(Fujie Kaizuka)

Tokyo Omnibus

Hot Corner Murder

(Aiko)

The Radish and the Carrot

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi

(Kyoko Yasugi)

1750 Days of Turbulence

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

(Yasukichi's Sister)

To Love and Forgive

The Lone Journey

(Otaka)

Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide

(Tokiko Matsuzaki)

Lovetide

(Sonoko)

Japanese Humanity and Justice

This Year's Love

Women in Prison

(Kazuko Hirai, prisoner)

Double Wedding

(Natsuko)

Scoundrel

Adolescence

(Mayumi Nishida)

My Wonderful Yellow Car

(The young woman)

A Man Among Men

(Michiko)

Girls in the Orchard

Rainy Night Duel

(Kikuko Kamo)

Price of Life

Umi no Chizu

(Akiko)

Morishige, where are you going?

(Michiyo)

Genroku Taiheiki

(Riku)

Three Sisters

(Nagai Mura)

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

(Teruko Momiji)

古谷一行の名探偵・金田一耕助シリーズ

(Kazuko Izawa)

鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人

丹後・宮津殺人岬

Downtown Story