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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Full filmography
- Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series (1983) as Teruko Momiji
- Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series (1983) as Kazuko Izawa
- Three Sisters (1967) as Nagai Mura
- Genroku Taiheiki (1975) as Riku
- Tampopo (1985) as Spaghetti Teacher
- Downtown Story
- Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) as Akemi
- The Fall of Ako Castle (1978) as Riku Ohishi
- Proof of the Man (1977) as Kyoko Yasugi
- Floating Clouds (1955) as Sei Mukai
- Late Autumn (1960) as Yuriko Sasaki
- Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island (1956) as Akemi
- Appassionata (1984) as Sei Shimamura
- An Autumn Afternoon (1962) as Akiko
- A Taxing Woman (1987) as Mitsuko Sugiura
- Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955) as Akemi
- A Woman’s Uphill Slope (1960) as Akie Tsugawa
- Confessions Among Actresses (1971) as Kyoko Ichimori
- My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005) as Navi
- 丹後・宮津殺人岬 (1988)
- The Geisha House (1999) as Hanaman's owner
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957) as Rika
- Japanese Humanity and Justice (1977)
- I Am a Cat (1975) as Hanako