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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...
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Furuya Ikkou's Great Detective Kindaichi Kousuke SeriesSeries • 1983
TampopoMovie • 1985
A Taxing WomanMovie • 1987
An Autumn AfternoonMovie • 1962
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu IslandMovie • 1956
Late AutumnMovie • 1960
Floating CloudsMovie • 1955
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji TempleMovie • 1955
Proof of the ManMovie • 1977
Coup d'EtatMovie • 1973
Eros + MassacreMovie • 1969
Samurai I: Musashi MiyamotoMovie • 1954
The Fall of Ako CastleMovie • 1978
Heroic PurgatoryMovie • 1970
Akitsu Hot SpringsMovie • 1962
The AffairMovie • 1967
My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?Movie • 2005
FlowingMovie • 1956
A Story Written with WaterMovie • 1965
Woman of the LakeMovie • 1966