Mariko Okada
Date of birth: 1933-01-11
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Марико Окада, ماریکو اوکادا
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.
Movie Credits
The Whisper of Spring
1952-12-10
After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952-05-14
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to
Runaway Bride
1956-02-12
Late Autumn
1960-11-13
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
1954-09-25
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955-07-12
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956-01-03
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal
Tampopo
1985-11-23
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside
Futari dake no toride
1963-03-24
An Edoite Judge
1953-02-05
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
White Fish
1953-08-05
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor
Flower in a Storm
1962-04-01
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie
Zoku aizen katsura
1962-10-24
1962 Japanese movie
Flowing
1956-11-20
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Kat
A Roaring Trade
1962-01-03
Illusion of Blood
1965-07-25
The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
An Autumn Afternoon
1962-11-18
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh
The Estuary
1961-07-26
Shirai Gonpachi
1956-02-12
The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the bea
Eros + Massacre
1969-03-13
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relation
Floating Clouds
1955-01-15
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap
Yakuza bayashi
1954-06-30
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
Bridge
1959-03-04
A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.
Tale of Scarlet Love
1963-08-11
Assistant Police Inspector Saburo Tatsuno, a former jazz pianist, is assigned to uncover a narcotics
Farewell to the Summer Light
1968-12-31
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woma
Heroic Purgatory
1970-09-26
Rikiya Shoda is an engineer working for the Atomic Agency in Japan. One day, his wife Nanako returns
Affair in the Snow
1968-01-31
In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volati
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957-04-14
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh
Frozen River
1976-04-24
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958-01-03
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh
A Story Written with Water
1965-11-23
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to m
Kiriko no unmei
1962-05-27
1962 Japanese movie
The Affair
1967-05-13
As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger
Spring Dreams
1960-01-03
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home
Enraptured
1961-04-18
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a
Niizuma no shitatari
1976-06-26
Love's Family Tree
1961-11-22
Hunting Rifle
1961-01-03
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who
Ai to kanashimi to
1962-07-29
1962 Japanese movie
Impasse
1967-12-01
Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to
Woman of the Lake
1966-08-27
A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962-06-15
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s
Confessions Among Actresses
1971-11-17
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is
Women in the Mirror
2003-04-02
Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that
Women of Tokyo
1961-03-01
Dancing Girl
1951-08-17
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot
Records of loyal vassals
1962-09-09
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of
The Scent of Incense
1964-05-24
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her moth
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
2005-05-18
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the vir
Rebels on the High Sea
1956-08-08
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955-10-05
Proof of the Man
1977-10-08
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of
Ai no Noutan
1959-01-28
When It Rains, It Pours
1957-06-11
Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h
Wedding Season
1954-11-16
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and
(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
1955-06-21
Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is tak
Husband and Wife
1953-01-22
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba
Waterfront Blues
1970-10-03
Based on Shinichi Mori song
Hakuro no Shibijin
2004-04-26
The wife of a famous resident of Kamakura awakens to carnal passion . . . And when her blood cools d
I Am a Cat
1975-05-31
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of f
Two Wives
1967-04-15
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-
Uzu
1961-01-15
1961 Japanese movie
A Woman’s Uphill Slope
1960-06-17
Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.
Bot-chan
1953-06-15
1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
Appassionata
1984-01-14
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter S
The Time of Reckoning
1968-06-29
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful busine
The End of the Night
1953-04-08
Walking home late one night, a down-on-his-luck sewage worker runs into a drunk businessman with a b
Domineering
1982-10-29
When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the p
The Lovers
1953-11-10
Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and
Kijû Yoshida: What Is a Filmmaker?
2008-04-09
An overview of the life and work of legendary Japanese filmmaker Kijû Yoshida, a notable figure of t
A Taxing Woman
1987-02-07
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Go
No Time for Tears
1955-05-10
Coach Shimamura of the hapless Sparrows baseball team is pleased to obtain a hot new pitcher named O
Farewell Rabaul
1954-02-10
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und
Sing, Young People!
1963-01-06
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the
I Lived, But...
1983-10-29
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f
The Geisha House
1999-01-15
Set in a Kyoto geisha house during the post-WWII era, the young Omocha begins her rigorous apprentic
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978-10-28
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells
The Face
1957-01-22
A notorious abortion doctor fell down from a night train and he was dead. A man who knows the truth
Escape from Hell
1963-01-27
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number o
The Days of Evil Women
1958-11-30
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with
The Young Mistress Plays Detective in the Spa Murder
1998-03-14
Akane is the young mistress of Notoraku Inn in Ishikawa Prefecture. She is trained by her mother-in-
The Adorable Trio
1957-12-28
Japanese romantic comedy film.
Cross-Currents
1972-09-09
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o
Tokyo Omnibus
1959-10-30
The story tells of Tsuchiya, a university professor and a widower who is in love with a widow who ru
Hot Corner Murder
1960-02-12
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.
The Radish and the Carrot
1965-01-03
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
1979-07-14
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous mo
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952-11-02
A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990-09-15
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
To Love and Forgive
1955-11-08
The Lone Journey
1955-08-31
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p
Young Madam's Interference in a Homicide
2000-12-30
Nami, the young madam of a well-established hot spring hotel in Kotohira, is reunited with her child
Lovetide
1955-01-09
An Ishiro Honda film.
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977-05-28
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to thei
This Year's Love
1962-01-14
Hikaru and Ichiro are close friends in high school. Hikaru's elder brother Tadashi fell in love with
Women in Prison
1956-09-11
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is
Double Wedding
1963-07-13
Scoundrel
1956-05-10
Adolescence
1952-08-28
Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953-01-15
A Man Among Men
1955-01-03
Gangsters Ken and Maki are rivals in the ticket-scalping game. They make an uneasy truce, but Ken wr
Girls in the Orchard
1953-09-15
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t
Rainy Night Duel
1956-01-29
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Desp
Price of Life
1971-07-24
Comedy of a phony doctor.
Umi no Chizu
1959-06-30
Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team a
Morishige, where are you going?
1956-06-14
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets
Eavesdropping Woman
1986-12-16
Yoko Shintani, an instructor at an aerobics school, secretly enjoys eavesdropping on the rooms next
Shūkin ryokō
1957-10-29
喜劇 各駅停車
1965-09-18
ある落日
1959-04-28
Netsuai sha
1961-08-29
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958-07-13
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.
Talkative Company President
1957-01-03
A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold
Okinawa Interlude
1959-08-30
1959 Japanese movie
Hibi no haishin
1958-02-16
Hiroyuki, a married executive, falls madly in love with Ikuko, the mistress of a ruthless jeweler. T
The Stronger Sex
1967-10-26
1967 Japanese movie
女たちの庭
1967-07-19
People Waiting for Spring
1959-01-09
This drama centers on an elderly politician and depicts how humans can return to their true selves w
Hanayome no o noroke
1958-01-03
A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Brid
Young Love Conquers All
1955-11-29
In a seaside town, local boys run each morning to glimpse wealthy Miyako, sparking a prank-filled ri