Mariko Okada
Birthday: 1933-01-11
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Late Autumn
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Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto
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Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
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Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
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Tampopo
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White Fish
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An Autumn Afternoon
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Shirai Gonpachi
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Eros + Massacre
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Floating Clouds
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Tale of Scarlet Love
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Farewell to the Summer Light
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Heroic Purgatory
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Affair in the Snow
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A Story Written with Water
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The Affair
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Spring Dreams
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Enraptured
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Hunting Rifle
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Impasse
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Woman of the Lake
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Akitsu Hot Springs
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Confessions Among Actresses
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Women in the Mirror
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Dancing Girl
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Records of loyal vassals
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The Scent of Incense
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My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
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Proof of the Man
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When It Rains, It Pours
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Wedding Season
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(Street of Wandering Pigeons) When Will the Birds Come Home
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A Woman’s Uphill Slope
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Appassionata
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The Time of Reckoning
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The End of the Night
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The Lovers
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I Lived, But...
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The Geisha House
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The Face
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Hot Corner Murder
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The Radish and the Carrot
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The Woman Who Touched the Legs
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1750 Days of Turbulence
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The Lone Journey
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Adolescence
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A Man Among Men
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Girls in the Orchard
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Rainy Night Duel
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Umi no Chizu
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Morishige, where are you going?
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Eavesdropping Woman
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Modan dôchû: Sono koi matta nashi
A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido....
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Talkative Company President
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Hibi no haishin
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People Waiting for Spring
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Hanayome no o noroke
A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Brid...
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Young Love Conquers All
In a seaside town, local boys run each morning to glimpse wealthy Miyako, sparking a prank-filled ri...
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