Mariko Okada

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1933-01-11 (91 years old)

Place of Birth Tokyo, Japan

Also Known As Марико Окада

Mariko Okada

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.

Known For

Actor

2004
Hakuro no Shibijin

as Kazuko Izawa

2003
Women in the Mirror

as Ai Kawase

1999
The Geisha House

as Hanaman's owner

1987
A Taxing Woman

as Mitsuko Sugiura

1985
Tampopo

as Spaghetti Teacher

1984
Appassionata

as Sei Shimamura

1983
1982
Domineering

as Hiroko Tadokoro

1978
The Fall of Ako Castle

as Riku Ohishi

1977
Proof of the Man

as Kyoko Yasugi

1975
I Am a Cat

as Hanako

1975
1972
Cross-Currents

as Fujie Kaizuka

1971
Confessions Among Actresses

as Kyoko Ichimori

1970
Waterfront Blues

as Maki Kamijo

1970
1969
Eros + Massacre

as Noe Ito / Mako Ito

1968
Affair in the Snow

as Yuriko Anzai

1967
Impasse

as Tatsuko Ibuki

1967
The Affair

as Oriko

1967
Three Sisters

as Nagai Mura

1966
Woman of the Lake

as Miyako Mizuki

1965
A Story Written with Water

as Shizuka Matsutani

1965
1964
1963
Double Wedding

as Natsuko

1963
1963
Sing, Young People

as Mariko Okada

1962
1962
1961
Enraptured

as Senya

1961
Women of Tokyo

as Eiko Kurita

1961
1961
Hunting Rifle

as Midori Misugi

1960
Late Autumn

as Yukiko Sasaki

1960
A Woman’s Uphill Slope

as Akie Tsugawa

1960
1960
Spring Dreams

as Chizuko Okudaira

1959
Umi no Chizu

as Akiko

1959
1957
The Adorable Trio

as Michiko Saeki

1957
1957
The Face

as Akiko Mizuhara

1956
Flowing

as Nanako

1956
Women in Prison

as Kazuko Hirai, prisoner

1956
Shirai Gonpachi

as Komurasaki

1956
Rainy Night Duel

as Kikuko Kamo

1955
1955
1955
Floating Clouds

as Sei Mukai

1955
Lovetide

as Sonoko

1955
A Man Among Men

as Michiko

1954
Farewell Rabaul

as Sumiko Komatsu

1953
The Lovers

as Yoshi

1953
White Fish

as Kuniko

1953
Bot-chan

as Madonna

1953
1953
Husband and Wife

as Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister

1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car

as The young woman

1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs

as Yasukichi's Sister

1952
Adolescence

as Mayumi Nishida

1951
Dancing Girl

as Shinako

Producer

1973
Coup d'Etat

as Producer

1962
Akitsu Hot Springs

as Producer

Costume & Make-Up

1962
Akitsu Hot Springs

as Costume Design