Eiji Okada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eiji Okada (13 June 1920 Chōshi, Chiba, Japan – 14 September 1995 Japan) was a Japanese film actor. Okada served in the Japanese army during World War II, and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him," in French) in the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959), directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's Woman in the Dunes (1964), an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on September 14, 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Jun 13, 1920 In Chōshi, Chiba, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 105
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Till We Meet Again 1950-03-21
- Latest Project:
- Movie Secret Liaisons 1995-10-28
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Secret Liaisons | 1995-10-28 | |
| Movie | The Stairway to the Distant Past | White Man | 1995-03-18 |
| Movie | Summer of the Lion Kings | 1991-01-12 | |
| Movie | Traffic Jam | 1991-04-27 | |
| Movie | Heat Wave | Masakichi Ono | 1991-02-09 |
| Movie | Green Requiem | 1988-08-20 | |
| Series | Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu | 1987-01-02 | |
| Movie | Agi, the Fury of Evil | Omi-no-kami | 1984-12-04 |
| Movie | Praying Mantis | Taichi Dôjima | 1983-04-08 |
| Movie | Antarctica | Ozawa Taicho | 1983-07-23 |
| Movie | Shi no dangai | 1982-01-26 | |
| Movie | Crazed Fruit | Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦) | 1981-04-24 |
| Movie | Kamikaze, the Adventurer | 1981-11-07 | |
| Movie | Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 | 1980-04-17 | |
| Movie | Magnitude 7.9 | Professor Watanabe | 1980-08-30 |
| Movie | The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail | 1980-11-15 | |
| Movie | The Strangling | Yoshio Morikawa | 1979-06-02 |
| Movie | Dog of Fortune | Shuhei Agata | 1979-06-02 |
| Movie | Love and Faith | Ankokuji | 1978-06-03 |
| Movie | Lost Love | Professor Kamiyama | 1978-02-24 |
| Movie | Take Me Away! | Ryunosuke Tamaru | 1978-07-22 |
| Movie | Blood Type: Blue | 1978-11-23 | |
| Movie | August without Emperor | Assistant General Tokunaga | 1978-09-23 |
| Movie | The Beauty of the Black Narcissus | 1978-10-14 | |
| Movie | The Alaska Story | Amaohka | 1977-01-22 |
| Movie | The Gate of Youth Part 2 | 1977-02-11 | |
| Movie | Utamaro's World | Tanuma | 1977-02-20 |
| Movie | Manhunt | 1976-02-11 | |
| Movie | Lullaby of the Earth | Evangelist | 1976-06-12 |
| Movie | Cobra 2 | Kudo | 1976-06-26 |
| Movie | Love in the North | 1976-11-06 | |
| Movie | Permanent Blue | 1976-09-23 | |
| Movie | Hadashi no seishun | 1975-04-12 | |
| Series | Oretachi no Tabi | 1975-10-05 | |
| Movie | I Am a Cat | Bunmei | 1975-05-31 |
| Movie | My Way | Lawyer | 1974-09-07 |
| Movie | The Yakuza | Tono | 1974-12-21 |
| Movie | ESPY | Salabad | 1974-12-28 |
| Movie | Zatoichi's Conspiracy | Shinbei | 1973-04-21 |
| Movie | Lady Snowblood | Gishirō Tsukamoto | 1973-12-01 |
| Movie | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | Shogen Wakita | 1973-08-11 |
| Movie | Red Target | Mike Tachibana | 1972-04-05 |
| Movie | Evil Spirits in the Darkness | 1971-06-07 | |
| Movie | Silence | Inoue Chikugonokami | 1971-11-13 |
| Movie | Rebel Against Glory | 1970-04-04 | |
| Movie | Records of Bloodshed | Seiichiro Machida | 1970-06-10 |
| Movie | This Transient Life | Mori | 1970-08-08 |
| Movie | Bullet Wound | 1969-09-10 | |
| Movie | Vixen | Nobuyuki Ishido | 1969-10-18 |
| Movie | Tattooed Temptress | 1968-04-13 | |
| Movie | Gambler's Farewell | Riichirô Maejima | 1968-02-09 |
| Movie | The Sands of Kurobe | 1968-03-01 | |
| Movie | Devil in My Flesh | 1968-05-01 | |
| Movie | Secret Information | Toru Kijima | 1968-05-14 |
| Movie | The X from Outer Space | Dr. Kato | 1967-03-25 |
| Movie | Rebellion of Japan | 1967-01-14 | |
| Movie | The Will to Live | 1967-07-08 | |
| Movie | Portrait of Chieko | Tsubaki | 1967-06-22 |
| Movie | Pretty Devil Yoko | Asai | 1966-03-19 |
| Movie | The Face of Another | The Boss | 1966-07-15 |
| Movie | Sanshiro Sugata | Gennosuke / Tesshin | 1965-05-29 |
| Movie | Samurai Spy | Tatewaki Koriyama | 1965-07-10 |
| Movie | The Scent of Incense | Nozawa | 1964-05-24 |
| Movie | Woman in the Dunes | Entomologist Niki Jumpei | 1964-02-15 |
| Movie | Assassination | Lord Matsudaira | 1964-07-04 |
| Movie | The Scarlet Camellia | Genjirô Maruume | 1964-11-21 |
| Movie | Rififi in Tokyo | Danny Riquet | 1963-03-29 |
| Movie | The Ugly American | Deong | 1963-04-02 |
| Movie | She and He | Eiichi Ishikawa | 1963-10-18 |
| Movie | A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji | 1961-04-09 | |
| Movie | Festival of Swordsmen | Kamio Shume | 1961-03-21 |
| Movie | 20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2 | 1961-07-09 | |
| Movie | Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku | 1961-07-18 | |
| Movie | Restoration Fire | Yamanami Keisuke | 1961-10-14 |
| Movie | Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy | 1960-05-10 | |
| Movie | Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4 | 1960-04-16 | |
| Movie | Shinran | 1960-06-21 | |
| Movie | The Pirates | Shinzo Murakami | 1960-09-18 |
| Movie | Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 | 1959-01-01 | |
| Movie | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Lui | 1959-06-10 |
| Movie | Hawk of the North | 1959-05-25 | |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend | Kogoro Akechi | 1957-05-28 |
| Movie | Showdown in Blood | 1957-08-28 | |
| Movie | Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki | Kogoro Akechi | 1957-05-20 |
| Movie | The Story of Pure Love | 1957-10-15 | |
| Movie | The Eleventh Hour | Shimano | 1957-11-24 |
| Movie | The Chop Professor | 1956-04-04 | |
| Movie | Five Paths to Revenge | Jun Mitani | 1956-01-22 |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom | Kogoro Akechi | 1956-11-07 |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces | Kogoro Akechi | 1956-11-14 |
| Movie | The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes | Ensign Asakura | 1955-01-09 |
| Movie | Here Is a Spring | 1955-02-12 | |
| Movie | Christ in Bronze | Hagiwara Yusa | 1955-10-11 |
| Movie | Hirado Pirates | 1955-06-07 | |
| Movie | The End of a Day | Leutnant Guni Hanata | 1954-02-03 |
| Movie | A Billionaire | Monta | 1954-11-22 |
| Movie | Tower of Lilies | Teacher Tamai | 1953-01-09 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Kitagawa | 1953-10-07 |
| Movie | The Yamabiko School | 1952-05-01 | |
| Movie | A Ripple in a Morning | 1952-05-01 | |
| Movie | Vacuum Zone | 1952-12-10 | |
| Movie | Mother | Shinjiro Hirai | 1952-06-12 |
| Movie | Weeping Doll | Ryuji | 1951-05-19 |
| Movie | Till We Meet Again | Saburo Tajima | 1950-03-21 |
| Movie | White Beast | 1950-06-03 |