List of the best Mariko Okada movies: Eros Plus Massacre(1969), Heroic Purgatory(1970), Confessions Among Actresses(1971), Late Autumn(1960), Samurai I(1955) ... ...
Biography, Drama
Japan
1969
165 Minutes
Noe Ito
Mariko Okada Toshiyuki Hosokawa Yûko Kusunoki Kazuko Inano Etsushi Takahashi Daijiro Harada
Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers around two 1960s' students researching Osugi's theories.
Fantasy, Drama
Japan
1970
118 Minutes
Nanako
Mariko Okada Naho Kimura Yoshiaki Makita Kaneko Iwasaki Tôru Takeuchi
An engineer's wife returns home with a lost teenager. A man posing as her dad tries to get her back, causing the engineer to recall his youth as a revolutionary, obscured by dreamlike disruptions of time and space, fantasy and reality.
Drama
Japan
1971
124 Minutes
Kyoko Ichimori
Mariko Okada Ruriko Asaoka Ineko Arima Miyoko Akaza Kazuko Inano Isao Kimura Rentarô Mikuni Kiwako Taichi
The lives of three movie actresses unfold, transform and get exposed. Each of them owes their choice of profession to a respective traumatic event.
Drama
Japan
1960
128 Minutes
Yukiko Sasaki
Setsuko Hara Yoko Tsukasa Mariko Okada Keiji Sada Miyuki Kuwano Shinichiro Mikami Shin Saburi Chishu Ryu Nobuo Nakamura Kuniko Miyake Sadako Sawamura
A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the help of her late husband's three friends.
Adventure, Sports & Fitness
1955
92 Minutes
Akemi
Toshirô Mifune Kaoru Yachigusa Rentarô Mikuni Mariko Okada Kuroemon Onoe Mitsuko Mito Eiko Miyoshi
warrior wife mother girlfriend samurai spectacular suspenseful intense japan war forbidden love martial arts transformation quest escape 17th century
The first part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's trilogy based on 17th-century Japanese warrior Musashi Miyamoto.