Eiji Okada
Biography
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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.
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Known For
Acting
1961
as
1968
asRiichirô Maejima
1973
asGishirō Tsukamoto
1971
as(voice)
1959
asLui
1960
as
1974
asTono
1952
asShinjiro Hirai
1966
asThe Boss
1978
as
1967
asDr. Kato
1964
asEntomologist Niki Jumpei
1960
as
1983
asOzawa Taicho
1965
asTatewaki Koriyama
1959
as
1977
asTanuma
1970
as
1973
asShinbei
1963
asDeong
1985
asHachiro Ishimoto
1950
as
1964
asLord Matsudaira
1970
asMori
1970
asSeiichiro Machida
1975
asBunmei
1991
asMasakichi Ono
1976
as
1963
asEiichi Ishikawa
1978
asProfessor Kamiyama
1978
asNarrator (voice)
1954
asMonta
1957
as
1974
asLawyer
1963
asDanny Riquet
1974
asSalabad
1953
asKitagawa
1955
asHagiwara Yusa
1964
asNozawa
1978
asAssistant General Tokunaga
1956
as
1965
asGennosuke / Tesshin
1995
asWhite Man
1949
as
1980
as
1960
as
1978
as
1955
as1995
as
1976
asEvangelist
1977
as
1978
asAnkokuji
1979
asShuhei Agata
1977
asAmaohka
1968
as
1971
asInoue Chikugonokami
1969
asNobuyuki Ishido
1955
as1976
asKudo
1952
as
1967
as1968
as
1950
asSaburo Tajima
1956
asKogoro Akechi
1956
asKogoro Akechi
1957
asKogoro Akechi
1957
asKogoro Akechi
1971
as
1955
asEnsign Asakura
1980
as
1953
asTeacher Tamai
1968
as
1960
as
1976
as
1954
asLeutnant Guni Hanata
1979
asYoshio Morikawa
1968
asToru Kijima
1981
as
1961
as
1967
asTsubaki
1961
asKamio Shume
1960
as
1976
as
1964
asGenjirô Maruume
1976
as
1972
asMike Tachibana
1959
as
1981
asTôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1956
asJun Mitani
1951
asRyuji
1973
asShogen Wakita
1961
as
1957
as
1952
as
1983
asTaichi Dôjima
1975
as
1991
as
1967
as
1984
asOmi-no-kami
1957
asShimano
1952
as
1980
asProfessor Watanabe
1988
as
1961
asYamanami Keisuke
1966
asAsai
1951
as
1960
asShinzo Murakami
1966
asShuji Onoda
1969
as
1956
as
1982
as
1951
as
1978
asRyunosuke Tamaru
1953
as
1991
as
1952
as
1958
as
1975
as
1973
as
1971
asMitsuo Iwashita
1984
as
1960
as
1977
as
1961
as
1961
as1980
as
1982
asKozo Hisamatsu
as
as
as
as
asProduction
Crew
Directing
