Acting
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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Filmography
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Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke Series
Three Sisters
The Story is about three daughters of a "Hatamoto" during the end of the Edo period and the Meiji Restoration.
Genroku Taiheiki
Downtown Story
The story revolves around a bar and a poor church in downtown Yokohama , a port town . Kazami Yobuko is a singe...
Tampopo
In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop sellin...
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typis...
An Autumn Afternoon
Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that M...
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun,...
Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from thr...
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samu...
The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of...
Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if rev...
Spring Dreams
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are...
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu w...
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptio...
A Story Written with Water
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but i...
Rebels on the High Sea
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
Appassionata
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura...
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
A.D. 2015: A virus has been spreading in many cities worldwide. It is a suicidal disease and the virus is infec...
Confessions Among Actresses
In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored....
A Taxing Woman
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a susp...
Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand tha...
Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to ta...
丹後・宮津殺人岬
Flowing
Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn'...
The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To s...
I Am a Cat
Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and te...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if rev...
Frozen River
A young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with one of the pat...
1750 Days of Turbulence
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
Two Wives
After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama...
Akitsu Hot Springs
Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.
Japanese Humanity and Justice
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as...
I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from...