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 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.
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Acting
Movie
Tampopo
as Spaghetti Teacher
1985
Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
as Akiko
1962
Movie
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
as Akemi
1954
Movie
Late Autumn
as Yuriko Sasaki
1960
Movie
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
as Akemi
1955
Movie
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
as Akemi
1956
Movie
Floating Clouds
as Sei Mukai
1955
Movie
Eros + Massacre
as Noe Ito / Mako Ito
1969
Movie
A Taxing Woman
as Mitsuko Sugiura
1987
Movie
Heroic Purgatory
as Nanako Shoda
1970
Movie
Flowing
as Nanako
1956
Movie
Woman of the Lake
as Miyako Mizuki
1966
Movie
The Fall of Ako Castle
as Riku Ohishi
1978
Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Shinko
1962
Movie
The Affair
as Oriko
1967
Movie
A Story Written with Water
as Shizuka Matsutani
1965
Movie
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
as Navi
2005
Movie
Farewell to the Summer Light
as Naoko Toba
1968
Movie
Proof of the Man
as Kyoko Yasugi
1977
Movie
Affair in the Snow
as Yuriko Anzai
1968
Movie
Impasse
as Tatsuko Ibuki
1967
Movie
Confessions Among Actresses
as Kyoko Ichimori
1971
Movie
Illusion of Blood
as Oiwa
1965
Movie
Dancing Girl
as Shinako
1951
