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, i...
An Autumn Afternoon
1962
Hibi no haishin
1958
The Stronger Sex
1967
女たちの庭
1967
A Taxing Woman
1987
Tokyo Omnibus
1959
Women in the Mirror
2003
Tampopo
1985
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
1955
Appassionata
1984
A Man Among Men
1955
The Affair
1967
Ai to kanashimi to
1962
Shirai Gonpachi
1956
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
The Geisha House
1999
The Estuary
1961
Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
1958
The Radish and the Carrot
1965
Spring Dreams
1960
I Lived, But...
1983
Illusion of Blood
1965
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
The Scent of Incense
1964
Records of loyal vassals
1962
Futari dake no toride
1963
Frozen River
1976
Wedding Season
1954
Bot-chan
1953
Uzu
1961
Bridge
1959
Runaway Bride
1956
Rainy Night Duel
1956
White Fish
1953
Kiriko no unmei
1962
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1956
Umi no Chizu
1959
Escape from Hell
1963
The Time of Reckoning
1968
A Story Written with Water
1965