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Mariko Okada
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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 e…
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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.
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Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
as Self
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
as Navi
Hakuro no Shibijin
as Kazuko Izawa
Women in the Mirror
as Ai Kawase
No Poster
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
as Tokiko Matsuzaki
The Geisha House
as Hanaman's owner
No Poster
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
as Asakura Takako
1750 Days of Turbulence
The Inugami Family
A Taxing Woman
as Mitsuko Sugiura
Eavesdropping Woman
Tampopo
as Spaghetti Teacher
Appassionata
as Sei Shimamura
I Lived, But...
as Self
Domineering
as Hiroko Tadokoro
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
as Kyoko Yasugi
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Riku Ohishi
Proof of the Man
as Kyoko Yasugi
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Niizuma no shitatari
Frozen River
I Am a Cat
as Hanako
Cross-Currents
as Fujie Kaizuka
Confessions Among Actresses
as Kyoko Ichimori
Price of Life
Waterfront Blues
as Maki Kamijo
Heroic Purgatory
as Nanako Shoda
Tatakai sunde higa kurete
Eros + Massacre
as Noe Ito / Mako Ito
Farewell to the Summer Light
as Naoko Toba
The Time of Reckoning
as Michiko Asai
Affair in the Snow
as Yuriko Anzai
Impasse
as Tatsuko Ibuki
The Stronger Sex
Family of Women
as 真山紀子
The Affair
as Oriko
Two Wives
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
as Kyoko Otaguro
Woman of the Lake
as Miyako Mizuki
A Story Written with Water
as Shizuka Matsutani
Retirement of a Train Engineer
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
Illusion of Blood
as Oiwa
The Radish and the Carrot
The Scent of Incense
as Tomoko
Tale of Scarlet Love
Double Wedding
as Natsuko
The House Where Flowers Bloom
Futari dake no toride
Escape from Hell
as Kumi
Sing, Young People!
as Mariko Okada
An Autumn Afternoon
as Akiko
Zoku aizen katsura
Records of loyal vassals
as Okatsu
Ai to kanashimi to
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Shinko
Kiriko no unmei
Flower in a Storm
This Year's Love
A Roaring Trade
Love's Family Tree
Netsuai sha
as Yoriko Tsushima
The Estuary
No Poster
Enraptured
as Senya
Mizu tamari
Women of Tokyo
as Eiko Kurita
Uzu
Hunting Rifle
as Midori Misugi
Late Autumn
as Yuriko Sasaki
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
as Akie Tsugawa
Banana
Hot Corner Murder
as Aiko
Spring Dreams
as Chizuko Okudaira
Kiri aru jyoji
Tokyo Omnibus
Okinawa Interlude
Umi no Chizu
as Akiko
ある落日
Bridge
Ai no Noutan
People Waiting for Spring
as Junko Murai
The Days of Evil Women
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
as Yuri Ebihara
Gendai Mushuku
as Rie Kitami
Whirlpool of Flowers
Doronko tengoku
Hibi no haishin
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Rika
Hanayome no o noroke
as Eiko Abe
The Adorable Trio
as Michiko Saeki
Shūkin ryokō
Monkey Business
as Chie Katsura
Her Hoodlum Lover
as Ruiko Miyahara
Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari
When It Rains, It Pours
as Matsuko Abe
Ninjō misui
Turtledove
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Rika
The Face
as Akiko Mizuhara
The Luckiest Dai
Talkative Company President
as Mayumi Shoji
Flowing
as Nanako
Women in Prison
as Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
Rebels on the High Sea
as Miki
Newlywed of the First Section
Morishige, where are you going?
as Michiyo
Scoundrel
Housewives Are Suing
Runaway Bride
Shirai Gonpachi
as Komurasaki
Beyond The Stars
as Kosuzu
Rainy Night Duel
as Kikuko Kamo
All Sold Out
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Akemi
Young Love Conquers All
To Love and Forgive
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Saeko
The Lone Journey
as Otaka
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Akemi
House of Many Pleasures
as Suzuyo
No Time for Tears
as Michiko
Floating Clouds
as Sei Mukai
Lovetide
as Sonoko
A Man Among Men
as Michiko
Wedding Season
New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple
New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Akemi
No Poster
Love Express
Yakuza bayashi
Geisha Konatsu
as Natsuko
Farewell Rabaul
as Sumiko Komatsu
Mama's Diary
The Lovers
as Yoshi
Girls in the Orchard
A Song of Little Men
White Fish
as Kuniko
Bot-chan
as Madonna
The End of the Night
An Edoite Judge
as Koto
Husband and Wife
as Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The young woman
Town of Seven Colors
The Whisper of Spring
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi's niece
A Guide to Marriage
Adolescence
as Mayumi Nishida
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Grease Paint Serenade
as Matsuko Takasuna
A Meeting of Youths
as Sadako Takagi
Dancing Girl
as Shinako