Mariko Okada
Mariko Okada ( Japanese 岡田 茉莉 子 , Okada Mariko , actually Mariko Yoshida 鞠 子 ; born January 11, 1933 in Tokyo Prefecture ) is a Japanese actress who has appeared in over 140 films and television series since 1951.
Life
Mariko Okada was born in Tokyo Prefecture in 1933, but later grew up in Niigata Prefecture . Her father was the silent film actor Tokihiko Okada , who died of tuberculosis just a year after the birth of his daughter in January 1934 at the age of 30 . In 1951, the now eighteen-year-old Mariko Okada was discovered by the film director Yasujiro Ozu , who had already worked with her father on the film Tokyo no kōrasu in 1931 , and was launched at the Tōhō film company . She got her first film role in Mikio Naruse's Maihime that same year . In 1957 she moved to Shōchiku , where she preferred to appear in melodramatic roles of tragic heroines. Her role as an emancipating woman in patriarchal society in Keisuke Kinoshita's Kōge (1964) is one of her outstanding representations.
Mariko Okada married the film director Yoshishige Yoshida in the Bavarian town of Aschau im Chiemgau in 1966 in the style of a traditional Alpine wedding, after they had been received in Munich beforehand . The couple later founded the Gendai Eiga-sha film company together. From then on she could be seen in several of his films. She played an incestuous mother in Mizu de kakareta monogatari from 1965, impersonated the anarchist Noe Ito in Erosu purasu gyakusatsu in 1970 and the following year an actress suffering from aphasia in Kokuhakuteki joyūron . She was also the producer of the 1973 biographical film Kaigenrei about the life of Kita Ikki . Mariko Okada is still active as an actress and has received several awards for her achievements.
Awards
- 1959: Mainichi Eiga Concours award for best supporting actress
- 1963: Kinema Junpo Award for best actress
- 1963: Mainichi Eiga Concours award for best leading actress
- 1998: Golden Glory Award and Platinum Grand Prize at the Japanese Movie Critics Awards
- 2019: Special Prize from the Chairman of the Japanese Academy Award
Filmography (selection)
- 1951: Maihime
- 1954: Samurai (Miyamoto Musashi)
- 1955: Ukigumo
- 1955: Tabiji
- 1955: Zoku Miyamoto Musashi: Ichijōji no Kettō
- 1956: Nagareru
- 1956: Miyamoto Musashi kanketsuhe: kettō Ganryūjima
- 1957: Yagyu Bugeicho
- 1957: Doshaburi
- 1960: late autumn (Akibiyori)
- 1962: An autumn afternoon (Samma no aji)
- 1962: Akitsu Onsen
- 1964: Kōge
- 1968: Juhyô no yoromeki
- 1969: Erosu purasu gyakusatsu
- 1970: Rengoku eroica
- 1971: Admitted theory of the actress (Kokuhakuteki joyûron)
- 1977: Death in the elevator ( Ningen no Shōmei )
- 1978: Akō-jō danzetsu
- 1985: Tampopo
- 1987: The tax investigator ( Marusa no onna )
- 1998: Omocha
- 2002: Kagami no onnatachi
- 2005: Eri Eri Rema Sabakutani?
Web links
- Mariko Okada in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Entry on Mariko Okada in the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
- Articles Mariko Okada and her husband in Harvard Film Archive (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 岡田 茉莉 子 . In: デ ジ タ ル 版 日本人 名 大 辞典 + Plus at kotobank.jp. Retrieved May 28, 2017 (Japanese).
- ↑ With flowers on the Kampenwand. In: Upper Bavarian Volksblatt . July 6, 2016, accessed July 6, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Okada, Mariko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 岡田 茉莉 子 (Japanese, stage name); 岡田 鞠 子 (Japanese, real name); Yoshida, Mariko; 吉田 鞠 子 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tokyo Prefecture , Japan |