Mariko Okada
Mariko Okada was 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.
Mariko Okada

キネマ旬報社 · 『キネマ旬報』1962年10月上旬号 · Public domain
- Name
- Mariko Okada
- Born
- 11 January 1933
- Birthplace
- Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Occupation
- Actress, film producer
- Full name
- 田中 鞠子.
- Nationality
- Japan.
- Known for
- Late Autumn and Proof of the Man.
- Honours
- Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress.
- Languages
- Japanese.
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Mariko Okada. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Documentary basis
Authority files
wikidata · Q2053558 · wikipedia · Mariko Okada
In this article
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Mariko Okada • Born — 11 January 1933 • Birthplace — Yoyogi, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan • Parents — Tokihiko Okada (father) Sonoko Tazuru (mother) • Occupation — Actress, film producer • Years Active — 1951–present
Biography
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.
Television
Television
• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1978 — The Yagyu Conspiracy — Lady Kasuga • 1985-1986 — Sanada Taiheiki — Yodo-dono
Film
• Illustration — Mariko Okada and Yoko Sugi in Husband and Wife (1953) • Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1951 — Dancing Girl — Shinako • 1953 — Husband and Wife — Kumiko, Shigekichi's sister • 1954 — Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto — Akemi • 1955 — Floating Clouds — Sei Mukai • 1955 — The Lone Journey — Otaka • 1955 — Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple — Akemi • 1956 — Flowing — Nanako • 1956 — Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island — Akemi • 1957 — Yagyu Secret Scrolls — Rika • 1957 — When It Rains, It Pours — Matsuko Abe • 1960 — Spring Dreams — Chizuko Okudaira • 1960 — Late Autumn — Yuriko Sasaki • 1961 — Hunting Rifle — Midori • 1961 — Enraptured — Senya • 1962 — An Autumn Afternoon — Akiko Hirayama • 1962 — Akitsu Springs — Shinko — Also Producer • 1964 — The Scent of Incense — Tomoko • 1965 — A Story Written with Water — Shizuka, Shizuo's mother • 1965 — Illusion of Blood — Oiwa • 1966 — Woman of the Lake — Miyako Mizuki • 1967 — The Affair — Oriko • 1967 — Flame and Women — Ritsuko Ibuki • 1968 — Affair in the Snow — Yuriko Anzai • 1968 — Farewell to the Summer Light — Naoko Toba • 1969 — Eros + Massacre — Noe Ito • 1970 — Heroic Purgatory — Nanako, Rikiya's wife • 1971 — Confessions Among Actresses — Shoko Ichimori • 1977 — Proof of the Man — Kyoko Yasugi • 1978 — The Fall of Ako Castle — Riku • 1982 — Conquest — Hiroko Tadokoro • 1985 — Tampopo — "Spaghetti Sensei", the etiquette coach • 1987 — A Taxing Woman — Mitsuko Sugiura • 1998 — The Geisha House — Hanaman's owner • 2002 — Women in the Mirror — Ai Kawase • 2005 — My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? — Navi
Primary material
Context
Mariko Okada is recorded as having received Mainichi Film Award for Best Actress.
Awards
• 1958: 13th Mainichi Film Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Season of the Demon Girl • 1962: 36th Kinema Junpo Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Love This Year and Kiriko's Fate • 1962: 17th Mainichi Film Awards - Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for Love This Year and Akitsu Springs • 1998: Golden Glory Award and Platinum Grand Prize, 8th Japan Movie Critics Awards
田中鞠子
朝日新聞社 · 『 アサヒグラフ 』 1951年7月25日号

Mariko Okada and Yōko Sugi in Fūfu (夫婦) directed by Mikio Naruse - 1953
Tōhō Kabushiki-gaisha
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
Part of the biographical narrative on this page reuses licensed material. Its origin, revision and licence are recorded here.
The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Mariko Okada, revision 1357056003 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
Notes from the source article
Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.吉田喜重さんが死去 映画監督、「秋津温泉」. Yamagata Shimbun.
- 2.Jacoby, Alexander. Midnight Eye interview: Yoshishige Yoshida. Midnight Eye. 13 December 2010.
- 3.岡田時彦 (Okada Tokihiko). Kinenote.
- 4.岡田茉莉子 (Okada Mariko). Japanese Movie Database.
- 5.秋津温泉 (Akitsu Springs). Kotobank.
- 6.Jacoby, Alexander. Critical Handbook of Japanese Film Directors: From the Silent Era to the Present Day. Stone Bridge Press. 363. 2008. 978-1-933330-53-2.
- 7.Weissberg, Jay. Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachtani? - Variety. Variety. 18 May 2005.
- 8.岡田茉莉子 (Okada Mariko). Kinenote.
- 9.Mainichi Film Awards.
- 10.MovieWalker at Walkerplus.com. March 2020.
- 11.Mainichi Film Awards.
- 12.Japan Movie Critics Award. 日本映画批評家大賞 JAPAN MOVIE CRITICS AWARD.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Joyū Okada Mariko (2009)
References
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Secondary witnessreference work
Secondary witness
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 17 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Film memorabilia
38,713 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- Marika RökkPerson
- Marika ŠoposkáPerson
- Mariko KoudaPerson
- Mariko MiyagiPerson
- Mariko TsutsuiPerson
- Marília PêraPerson
- Marilina RossPerson
- Marilou BerryPerson
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own a work by Mariko Okada?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.