Yoshiko Okada

Okada Yoshiko

  • Name: Okada Yoshiko
  • Native name: 岡田嘉子
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Female
  • Born: April 21, 1902
  • Died: February 10, 1992
Yoshiko Okada was a Japanese film and stage actress who was most famous for her defection to the Soviet Union.
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
Year Title # Role Rating
1976 Oretachi no Asa
Japanese Drama, 1976, 48 eps
Junko Nonaka (Support Role)
48
Junko Nonaka
Support Role
0.0
Movie
Year Title Role Rating
1978 August without Emperor
Japanese Movie, 1978,
Kaneda (Support Role)
Kaneda
Support Role
7.2
1978 Orange Road Kyuko
Japanese Movie, 1978,
Tanaka Moto (Main Role)
Tanaka Moto
Main Role
8.0
1976 Tora-san 17: Sunrise and Sunset
Japanese Movie, 1976,
Shiho (Support Role)
Shiho
Support Role
7.4
1935 An Inn in Tokyo
Japanese Movie, 1935,
Otaka (Main Role)
Otaka
Main Role
7.2
1935 Monogen Wanu Ane
Japanese Movie, 1935,
(Main Role)
Main Role
0.0
1934 Our Neighbor, Miss Yae
Japanese Movie, 1934,
Kyouko (Main Role)
Kyouko
Main Role
7.1
1933 The Lady Who Wept in Spring
Japanese Movie, 1933,
Ohama (Support Role)
Ohama
Support Role
7.0
1933 Woman of Tokyo
Japanese Movie, 1933,
Chikako (Main Role)
Chikako
Main Role
7.1
1932 No Blood Relation
Japanese Movie, 1932,
Kiyooka Tamae (Main Role)
Kiyooka Tamae
Main Role
7.0
1932 Mataafu Hi Made
Japanese Movie, 1932,
[Woman] (Main Role)
[Woman]
Main Role
3.0
1932 Chikyodai
Japanese Movie, 1932,
(Unknown)
Unknown
6.0
1926 Ai no Kikoshi
Japanese Movie, 1926,
Mishima Ruriko (Main Role)
Mishima Ruriko
Main Role
0.0
1925 For My Alma Matter
Japanese Movie, 1925,
Musume Sayoko (Support Role)
Musume Sayoko
Support Role
0.0
1925 Akutagawa Takako no Adauchi
Japanese Movie, 1925,
(Support Role)
Support Role
0.0
1925 Daichi wa Hohoemu: Dai San Hen
Japanese Movie, 1925,
(Unknown)
Unknown
0.0
TV Show
Year Title # Role Rating
1982 This Person Show
Japanese TV Show, 1982, 112 eps
(Ep. 83) (Guest)
112
(Ep. 83)
Guest
0.0
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  • First Name: Yoshiko
  • Family Name: Okada
  • Native name: 岡田嘉子
  • Nationality: Japanese
  • Gender: Female
  • Born: April 21, 1902
  • Died: February 10, 1992

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