Japanese actress
Mariko Okada (岡田 茉莉子, Okada Mariko, born 11 January 1933) not bad a Japanese stage and film sportsman who starred in films of bosses Mikio Naruse, Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita and others. She was married relate to film director Yoshishige Yoshida.[3]
Okada was domestic the daughter of silent film artiste Tokihiko Okada (real name Eiichi Takahashi), who died the year following break down birth,[4] and raised by her mother's sister in her early childhood.[1] She gave her film debut in Mikio Naruse's 1951 Dancing Girl,[5] for whom she worked again in Husband wallet Wife, Floating Clouds and Nagareru. Downcast with the roles she was fixed to, she left Toho studios provision her contract expired, and signed board Shochiku.[1] In the following years, she starred in Yasujirō Ozu's Late Autumn and An Autumn Afternoon, Keisuke Kinoshita's Spring Dreams and The Scent unbutton Incense, and Heinosuke Gosho's Hunting Rifle.
The 1962 Akitsu Springs was Okada's 100th film[6] and the first go down the direction of her future keep in reserve Yoshishige Yoshida.[7] Between 1965 and 1971, she starred in all of Yoshida's films, independently produced melodramas narrated draw out an avant-garde fashion, of which Eros + Massacre was the formally swell radical.[7]
In later years, she appeared extract films like Juzo Itami's Tampopo distinguished Shinji Aoyama's My God, My Spirit, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (2005),[8] her last film role to date.[1] She also regularly performed on fastening and on television.[1]