Mariko Okada
Acting
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.
Born: January 11, 1933
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as Kazuko Izawa
as Ai Kawase
as Hanaman's owner
as Mitsuko Sugiura
as Spaghetti Teacher
as Sei Shimamura
as Self
as Teruko Momiji
as Kazuko Izawa
as Hiroko Tadokoro
as Kyoko Yasugi
as Riku Ohishi
as Kyoko Yasugi
as Hanako
as Riku
as Fujie Kaizuka
as Kyoko Ichimori
as Maki Kamijo
as Nanako Shoda
as Noe Ito / Mako Ito
as Naoko Toba
as Yuriko Anzai
as Tatsuko Ibuki
as 真山紀子
as Oriko
as Nagai Mura
as Miyako Mizuki
as Shizuka Matsutani
as Oiwa
as Tomoko
as Natsuko
as Kumi
as Mariko Okada
as Akiko
as Okatsu
as Shinko
as Yoriko Tsushima
as Eiko Kurita
as Midori Misugi
as Yukiko Sasaki
as Akie Tsugawa
as Aiko
as Chizuko Okudaira
as Akiko
as Junko Murai
as Yuri Ebihara
as Eiko Abe
as Michiko Saeki
as Matsuko Abe
as Rika
as Akiko Mizuhara
as Mayumi Shoji
as Nanako
as Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
as Miki
as Michiyo
as Komurasaki
as Kikuko Kamo
as Saeko
as Otaka
as Michiko
as Sei Mukai
as Sonoko
as Michiko
as Akemi
as Sumiko Komatsu
as Yoshi
as Kuniko
as Madonna
as Koto
as Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
as The young woman
as Yasukichi's Sister
as Mayumi Nishida
as Shinako