Akitsu Springs / Akitsu onsen (1962)

For Euro/Americans, Mariko Okada is one of the great unknowns of Japanese cinema, not unlike Kinnosuke Nakamura. Tracing her career back through IMDB, we can see that she was the top-credited female in most of her films, almost from the beginning of her career. The only time her name drops down to second or third …