Mariko Okada

occupation = Actress, film producer years_active = 1951–present

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. 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. 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. her last film role to date. She also regularly performed on stage and on television. 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