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Aliases: Марико Окада

Gender: Female

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

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Movie Involvements: 61

TV Involvements: 2


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

An Autumn Afternoon
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8

An Autumn Afternoon

(1962) Akiko
Three Sisters
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Three Sisters

(1967) Nagai Mura
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
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7
Genroku Taiheiki
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Genroku Taiheiki

(1975) Riku
Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
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7
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
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7
Floating Clouds
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8

Floating Clouds

(1955) Sei Mukai
Flowing
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7

Flowing

(1956) Nanako

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2008 Self
2005 Navi
2004 伊沢加寿子
2003 Ai Kawase
2000 Tokiko Matsuzaki
1999 Hanaman's owner
1998 Asakura Takako
1990 N/A
1987 Mitsuko Sugiura
1985 Spaghetti Teacher
1984 Sei Shimamura
1983 Self
1982 Hiroko Tadokoro
1979 Kyoko Yasugi
1978 Riku Ohishi
1977 Kyoko Yasugi
N/A
1976 N/A
N/A
1975 Hanako
Riku
1972 Fujie Kaizuka
1971 Kyoko Ichimori
N/A
1970 Maki Kamijo
Nanako
1969 Noe Ito / Mako Ito
1968 Naoko Toba
N/A
Yuriko Anzai
1967 Tatsuko Ibuki
Oriko
N/A
Nagai Mura
1966 Miyako Mizuki
1965 Shizuka Matsutani
Oiwa
N/A
1964 Tomoko
1963 N/A
Natsuko
N/A
Kumi
Mariko Okada
1962 Akiko
N/A
Okatsu
N/A
Shinko
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
1961 N/A
N/A
Senya
Eiko Kurita
Midori Misugi
1960 Yukiko Sasaki
Aiko
Chizuko Okudaira
1959 N/A
Akiko
N/A
N/A
1958 N/A
Rika
1957 Michiko Saeki
Matsuko Abe
Rika
Akiko Mizuhara
1956 Nanako
Kazuko Hirai, prisoner
Miki
N/A
Komurasaki
N/A
Kikuko Kamo
Akemi
1955 N/A
Saeko
Otaka
Akemi
N/A
Sei Mukai
Sonoko
Michiko
1954 N/A
Akemi
N/A
Sumiko Komatsu
1953 Yoshi
N/A
Kuniko
Madonna
Koto
Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister
The young woman
1952 N/A
Yasukichi's Sister
Mayumi Nishida
N/A
1951 Shinako
Year Character Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1973 Producer
1962 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Costume & Make-Up

Year Role Movie/Tv
1962 Costume Design
Year Role Movie/Tv

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