Mariko Okada

Known for ActingBorn 1933-01-11 (age 93)Tokyo, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Yakuza bayashi

Bot-chan

The End of the Night

The Whisper of Spring

Adolescence

The Radish and the Carrot

Futari dake no toride

Netsuai sha

A Woman’s Uphill Slope

Talkative Company President

Rebels on the High Sea

House of Many Pleasures

No Time for Tears

The Lone Journey

The Lovers

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1750 Days of Turbulence

Farewell Rabaul

Women in the Mirror

The Geisha House

Three Sisters

Tampopo

Hunting Rifle

Proof of the Man

Rainy Night Duel

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Lovetide

A Man Among Men

Girls in the Orchard

An Autumn Afternoon

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

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

Late Autumn

Floating Clouds

The Time of Reckoning

Eros + Massacre

Two Wives

The Scent of Incense

Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series

Japanese Humanity and Justice

Flowing

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto

Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

Heroic Purgatory

Waterfront Blues

Woman of the Lake

A Taxing Woman