
Mariko Okada
Biography
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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.
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Acting (116 movies)

The Whisper of Spring
1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

Runaway Bride
1956

Late Autumn
1960

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956

Tampopo
1985

Futari dake no toride
1963

An Edoite Judge
1953

White Fish
1953

Flower in a Storm
1962

Zoku aizen katsura
1962

Flowing
1956

A Roaring Trade
1962

Illusion of Blood
1965

An Autumn Afternoon
1962

The Estuary
1961

Shirai Gonpachi
1956

Eros + Massacre
1969

Floating Clouds
1955

Yakuza bayashi
1954

Bridge
1959

Tale of Scarlet Love
1963

Farewell to the Summer Light
1968

Heroic Purgatory
1970

Affair in the Snow
1968

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957

Frozen River
1976

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958

A Story Written with Water
1965

Kiriko no unmei
1962

The Affair
1967

Spring Dreams
1960

Niizuma no shitatari
1976

Love's Family Tree
1961

Hunting Rifle
1961

Ai to kanashimi to
1962

Impasse
1967

Woman of the Lake
1966

Confessions Among Actresses
1971

Women in the Mirror
2003

Akitsu Hot Springs
1962

Women of Tokyo
1961

Dancing Girl
1951

Records of loyal vassals
1962

The Scent of Incense
1964

My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005

Rebels on the High Sea
1956

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955

Proof of the Man
1977

Ai no Noutan
1959

When It Rains, It Pours
1957

Wedding Season
1954

(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
1955

Husband and Wife
1953

Waterfront Blues
1970

Hakuro no Shibijin
2004

I Am a Cat
1975

Two Wives
1967

Uzu
1961

A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960

Bot-chan
1953

Appassionata
1984

The Time of Reckoning
1968

The End of the Night
1953

Domineering
1982

The Lovers
1953

Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008

A Taxing Woman
1987

No Time for Tears
1955

Farewell Rabaul
1954

Sing, Young People!
1963

I Lived, But...
1983

The Geisha House
1999

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978

The Face
1957

Escape from Hell
1963

The Days of Evil Women
1958

The Adorable Trio
1957

Cross-Currents
1972

Tokyo Omnibus
1959

Hot Corner Murder
1960

The Radish and the Carrot
1965

The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979

1750 Days of Turbulence
1990

The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952

To Love and Forgive
1955

The Lone Journey
1955

Lovetide
1955

Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977

This Year's Love
1962

Women in Prison
1956

Double Wedding
1963

Scoundrel
1956

Adolescence
1952

My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953

A Man Among Men
1955

Girls in the Orchard
1953

Rainy Night Duel
1956
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Netsuai sha | 1961 | Producer | 
| Akitsu Hot Springs | 1962 | Producer | 
| Coup d'Etat | 1973 | Producer |