Mariko Okada
Known for: Acting
Born: January 11, 1933
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
151 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
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Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008
7.4
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005
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Hakuro no Shibijin
2004
7.9
Women in the Mirror
2003NR
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
2000
7.7
The Geisha House
1999NR
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1998
8.3
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990NR
丹後・宮津殺人岬
1988
6.7
A Taxing Woman
1987
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Eavesdropping Woman
1986
7.8
Tampopo
1985
6.3
Appassionata
1984
6.8
I Lived, But...
1983
7.0
Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
1983
5.4
Domineering
1982NR
鮮やかな完全犯罪・女相続人
1979
6.4
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979
6.8
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
7.8
Proof of the Man
1977
7.0
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
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Niizuma no shitatari
1976
3.0
Frozen River
1976
4.0
I Am a Cat
1975
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Genroku Taiheiki
1975
6.5
Coup d'Etat
1973
6.3
Cross-Currents
1972
6.0
Confessions Among Actresses
1971
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Price of Life
1971
7.0
Waterfront Blues
1970
7.0
Heroic Purgatory
1970
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Tatakai sunde higa kurete
1970
7.3
Eros + Massacre
1969
6.9
Farewell to the Summer Light
1968
7.5
The Time of Reckoning
1968
6.9
Affair in the Snow
1968
6.4
Impasse
1967
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The Stronger Sex
1967
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Family of Women
1967
6.6
The Affair
1967
7.3
Two Wives
1967
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Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
1967
8.0
Three Sisters
1967
7.1
Woman of the Lake
1966
6.3
A Story Written with Water
1965
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Retirement of a Train Engineer
1965
6.4
Illusion of Blood
1965
9.0
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
7.2
The Scent of Incense
1964
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Tale of Scarlet Love
1963
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Double Wedding
1963
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The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
9.0
Futari dake no toride
1963
6.8
Escape from Hell
1963
6.2
Sing, Young People!
1963
7.9
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
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Zoku aizen katsura
1962
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Records of loyal vassals
1962
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Ai to kanashimi to
1962
6.5
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
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Kiriko no unmei
1962
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Flower in a Storm
1962
6.8
This Year's Love
1962
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A Roaring Trade
1962
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Love's Family Tree
1961
9.0
Netsuai sha
1961
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The Estuary
1961NR
Enraptured
1961
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Mizu tamari
1961
NR
Women of Tokyo
1961
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Uzu
1961
8.0
Hunting Rifle
1961
7.7
Late Autumn
1960
9.0
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960
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Banana
1960
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Hot Corner Murder
1960
6.0
Spring Dreams
1960
NR
Kiri aru jyoji
1959
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Tokyo Omnibus
1959
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Okinawa Interlude
1959
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Umi no Chizu
1959
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ある落日
1959
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Bridge
1959
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Ai no Noutan
1959
NR
People Waiting for Spring
1959
7.0
The Days of Evil Women
1958
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958
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Gendai Mushuku
1958
NR
Whirlpool of Flowers
1958
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Doronko tengoku
1958
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Hibi no haishin
1958
5.4
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
NR
Hanayome no o noroke
1958
NR
The Adorable Trio
1957
NR
Shūkin ryokō
1957
NR
Monkey Business
1957
NR
Her Hoodlum Lover
1957
NR
Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari
1957
6.0
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
NR
Ninjō misui
1957
NR
Turtledove
1957
6.5
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
NR
The Face
1957
NR
The Luckiest Dai
1957
9.0
Talkative Company President
1957
7.2
Flowing
1956
4.0
Women in Prison
1956
9.0
Rebels on the High Sea
1956
NR
Newlywed of the First Section
1956
NR
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
NR
Scoundrel
1956
NR
Housewives Are Suing
1956
NR
Runaway Bride
1956
NR
Shirai Gonpachi
1956
NR
Beyond The Stars
1956
8.0
Rainy Night Duel
1956
NR
All Sold Out
1956
7.2
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
7.0
Young Love Conquers All
1955
NR
To Love and Forgive
1955
8.0
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
9.0
The Lone Journey
1955
NR
The Tears of Geisha Konatsu
1955
7.2
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
9.0
House of Many Pleasures
1955
9.0
No Time for Tears
1955
7.7
Floating Clouds
1955
8.0
Lovetide
1955
8.0
A Man Among Men
1955
NR
Wedding Season
1954
NR
New Tengu Kurama Part II: Duel at Toji Temple
1954
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New Tengu Kurama: Tengu Appears
1954
7.2
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954NR
Love Express
1954
10.0
Yakuza bayashi
1954
NR
Geisha Konatsu
1954
8.1
Farewell Rabaul
1954
NR
Mama's Diary
1954
8.0
The Lovers
1953
8.0
Girls in the Orchard
1953
NR
A Song of Little Men
1953
7.0
White Fish
1953
10.0
Bot-chan
1953
10.0
The End of the Night
1953
NR
An Edoite Judge
1953
6.9
Husband and Wife
1953
7.0
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
NR
Town of Seven Colors
1952
10.0
The Whisper of Spring
1952
8.0
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952
NR
A Guide to Marriage
1952
10.0
Adolescence
1952
9.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
NR
Grease Paint Serenade
1952
NR
A Meeting of Youths
1952
6.4
Dancing Girl
1951
NR
Downtown Story
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