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.
Biography 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.
The 1962 Akitsu Springs was Okada's 100th film and the first under the direction of her future husband Yoshishige Yoshida. Between 1965 and 1971, she starred in all of Yoshida's films, independently produced melodramas narrated in an avant-garde fashion, of which Eros + Massacre was the formally most radical.
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.
Partial filmography Film
YearTitleRoleNotes1951Dancing GirlShinako1953Husband and Wife Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister1954Samurai I: Musashi MiyamotoAkemi1955Floating CloudsSei Mukai1955The Lone JourneyOtaka1955Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji TempleAkemi1956FlowingNanako1956Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island Akemi1957Yagyu Secret ScrollsRika1957When It Rains, It PoursMatsuko Abe1960Spring DreamsChizuko Okudaira1960Late AutumnYuriko Sasaki1961Hunting RifleMidori1961EnrapturedSenya1962An Autumn AfternoonAkiko Hirayama1962Akitsu SpringsShinkoAlso Producer1964The Scent of IncenseTomoko1965A Story Written with WaterShizuka, Shizuo's mother1965Illusion of BloodOiwa1966Woman of the LakeMiyako Mizuki1967The AffairOriko1967Flame and WomenRitsuko Ibuki1968Affair in the SnowYuriko Anzai1968Farewell to the Summer LightNaoko Toba1969Eros + MassacreNoe Ito1970Heroic PurgatoryNanako, Rikiya's wife1971Confessions Among ActressesShoko Ichimori1977Proof of the ManKyoko Yasugi1978The Fall of Ako CastleRiku1982ConquestHiroko Tadokoro1985Tampopo"Spaghetti Sensei", the etiquette coach1987A Taxing WomanMitsuko Sugiura1998The Geisha HouseHanaman's owner2002Women in the MirrorAi Kawase2005My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?Navi
Television YearTitleRoleNotes1978The Yagyu ConspiracyLady Kasuga1985-1986Sanada TaiheikiYodo-dono
Bibliography Joyū Okada Mariko (2009)
Awards 1958: 13th Mainichi Film Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for 1962: 36th Kinema Junpo Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for and 1962: 17th Mainichi Film Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Love This Year and 1998: Golden Glory Award and Platinum Grand Prize, 8th Japan Movie Critics Awards
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