Okada Yoshiko
- Name: Okada Yoshiko
- Native name: 岡田嘉子
- Nationality: Japanese
- Gender: Female
- Born: April 21, 1902
- Died: February 10, 1992
She made her film debut in 1923 at Nikkatsu in Eizo Tanaka's Dokuro no mai.
On 3 January 1938, Okada defected to the Soviet Union with her lover Ryokichi Sugimoto, seeking freedom from Japanese fascism and hoping to study theater with other Japanese in the USSR. Sugimoto, however, was arrested and executed as a spy and Okada spent the next ten years in a prison camp.
At the end of her confinement, Okada began to work for Radio Moscow and eventually got to study at the Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (Russian University of Theatre Arts), worked in Mayakovsky Theater.She helped stage a play and was selected to co-direct the film Ten Thousand Boys with Boris Buneyev, a work that has been called "the first Russian film about Japan not intended to be a depiction of the 'vicious Japanese enemy'."
Later played in Japanese films and dramas.
She died at age 89 in Moscow and later was buried in Japan. Edit Biography
Drama
Title | Rating |
---|---|
Oretachi no Asa
Japanese Drama, 1976, 48 eps
Junko Nonaka
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Movie
Title | Rating |
---|---|
August without Emperor
Japanese Movie, 1978,
Kaneda
(Support Role)
|
7.3
|
Orange Road Kyuko
Japanese Movie, 1978,
Tanaka Moto
(Main Role)
|
8.0
|
Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset
Japanese Movie, 1976,
Shiho
(Support Role)
|
7.5
|
An Inn in Tokyo
Japanese Movie, 1935,
Otaka
(Main Role)
|
7.4
|
Monogen Wanu Ane
Japanese Movie, 1935,
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Japanese Movie, 1934,
Kyouko
(Main Role)
|
7.2
|
The Lady Who Wept in Spring
Japanese Movie, 1933,
Ohama
(Support Role)
|
7.0
|
Woman of Tokyo
Japanese Movie, 1933,
Chikako
(Main Role)
|
7.1
|
No Blood Relation
Japanese Movie, 1932,
Kiyooka Tamae
(Main Role)
|
7.0
|
Mataafu Hi Made
Japanese Movie, 1932,
[Woman]
(Main Role)
|
3.0
|
Chikyodai
Japanese Movie, 1932,
(Unknown)
|
6.0
|
Ai no Kikoshi
Japanese Movie, 1926,
Mishima Ruriko
(Main Role)
|
0.0
|
For My Alma Matter
Japanese Movie, 1925,
Musume Sayoko
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Akutagawa Takako no Adauchi
Japanese Movie, 1925,
(Support Role)
|
0.0
|
Daichi wa Hohoemu: Dai San Hen
Japanese Movie, 1925,
(Unknown)
|
0.0
|
TV Show
Title | Rating |
---|---|
This Person Show
Japanese TV Show, 1982, 112 eps
(Ep. 83)
(Guest)
|
0.0
|
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