
Story of a woman, Saiko, who divorces her doctor husband when she is given a baby by a stranger who claims it is the husband’s child. Read More »
Tag Archives: Mariko Okada
Juhyô no yoromeki / Affair in the Snow (1968) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Isao Kimura, Yukio Ninagawa

In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself Read More »
Miyamoto Musashi / Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto (1954) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentarô Mikuni

With his closest friend, Matahachi, Takezo (the town’s wild, orphan kid) leaves his village to join an army on its way to battle. Read More »
1750 Days of Turbulence (1990) Sadao Nakajima, Kiichi Nakai, Kiyoshi Nakajoe, Mariko Okada

Japan’s largest yakuza, boasting 12,000 members, splits apart, resulting in a bloody turmoil spanning Read More »
Confessions Among Actresses / Kokuhakuteki joyûron (1971) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Ruriko Asaoka, Ineko Arima

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses Read More »
Akitsu Springs / Akitsu onsen (1962) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Hiroyuki Nagato, Sô Yamamura

The day before Japan announces its defeat in WW2, a very ill Shusaku arrives in Okayama. Read More »
Floating Clouds / Ukigumo (1955) Mikio Naruse, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Mariko Okada

A tragic social drama set in post war Japan and concerns a lonely women Read More »
Two Wives / Tsuma futari (1967) Yasuzô Masumura, Ayako Wakao, Mariko Okada, Kôji Takahashi

After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate Read More »
The Affair / Jôen (1967) Yoshishige Yoshida, Mariko Okada, Yoshie Minami, Tadahiko Sugano

A woman, unhappily married to a cheating executive, starts meeting her dead mother’s lover Read More »
Appassionata AKA Jo no mai (1984) Sadao Nakajima, Mariko Okada, Yûko Natori, Morio Kazama, Kei Satô

Tsuya Shimamura, is born in Kyoto as the second daughter of a tea trader who dies before her birth. Read More »