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.
The Whisper of Spring
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Runaway Bride
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 Shoda)
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 niece)
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)
Eavesdropping Woman
Shūkin ryokō
喜劇 各駅停車
ある落日
Netsuai sha
(Yoriko Tsushima)
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
(Yuri Ebihara)
Talkative Company President
(Mayumi Shoji)
Okinawa Interlude
Hibi no haishin
The Stronger Sex
女たちの庭
(真山紀子)
People Waiting for Spring
(Junko Murai)
Hanayome no o noroke
(Eiko Abe)
Young Love Conquers All
Genroku Taiheiki
(Riku)
Three Sisters
(Nagai Mura)
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
(Teruko Momiji)
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
(Kazuko Izawa)
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
丹後・宮津殺人岬
Downtown Story
