Eiji Okada
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1920-06-13
Day of Death
1995-09-14 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Eiji Okada
Biography
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.
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Known For
Acting
(1995)
The Stairway to the Distant Past
as White Man
(1995)
(1991)
Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
(1991)
(1991)
(1988)
(1985)
Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
(1984)
(1984)
Agi, the Fury of Evil
as Omi-no-kami
(1983)
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
(1983)
Praying Mantis
as Taichi Dôjima
(1982)
(1981)
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
(1981)
(1980)
Magnitude 7.9
as Professor Watanabe
(1980)
(1980)
(1979)
Dog of Fortune
as Shuhei Agata
(1979)
The Strangling
as Yoshio Morikawa
(1978)
August without Emperor
as Assistant General Tokunaga
(1978)
(1978)
Love and Faith
as Ankokuji
(1978)
Take Me Away!
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
(1978)
The Glacier Fox
as Narrator (voice)
(1978)
Lost Love
as Professor Kamiyama
(1978)
(1977)
(1977)
(1977)
Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
(1977)
The Alaska Story
as Amaohka
(1976)
Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
(1976)
(1976)
(1976)
Cobra 2
as Kudo
(1976)
(1976)
(1975)
I Am a Cat
as Bunmei
(1975)
(1975)
(1974)
The Yakuza
as Tono
(1974)
ESPY
as Salabad
(1974)
My Way
as Lawyer
(1973)
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
(1973)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
(1973)
(1973)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
(1972)
Red Target
as Mike Tachibana
(1971)
Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
(1971)
(1971)
The Earth is Born Again
as Mitsuo Iwashita
(1971)
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
as (voice)
(1970)
This Transient Life
as Mori
(1970)
(1970)
Records of Bloodshed
as Seiichiro Machida
(1969)
(1969)
Vixen
as Nobuyuki Ishido
(1968)
(1968)
(1968)
Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô Maejima
(1968)
Secret Information
as Toru Kijima
(1968)
(1967)
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
(1967)
(1967)
Portrait of Chieko
as Tsubaki
(1967)
(1966)
The Face of Another
as The Boss
(1966)
Pretty Devil Yoko
as Asai
(1966)
Japan's Most Chivalrous
as Shuji Onoda
(1965)
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
(1965)
Sanshiro Sugata
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
(1964)
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
(1964)
The Scent of Incense
as Nozawa
(1964)
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
(1964)
The Scarlet Camellia
as Genjirô Maruume
(1963)
The Ugly American
as Deong
(1963)
Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny Riquet
(1963)
She and He
as Eiichi Ishikawa
(1961)
(1961)
Restoration Fire
as Yamanami Keisuke
(1961)
(1961)
(1961)
Festival of Swordsmen
as Kamio Shume
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
The Pirates
as Shinzo Murakami
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1960)
(1959)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
(1959)
(1959)
(1958)
(1957)
(1957)
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
as Kogoro Akechi
(1957)
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
as Kogoro Akechi
(1957)
(1957)
The Eleventh Hour
as Shimano
(1956)
(1956)
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
as Kogoro Akechi
(1956)
Five Paths to Revenge
as Jun Mitani
(1956)
(1956)
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
as Kogoro Akechi
(1955)
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
as Ensign Asakura
(1955)
Christ in Bronze
as Hagiwara Yusa
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
A Billionaire
as Monta
(1954)
The End of a Day
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
(1953)
Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
(1953)
Tower of Lilies
as Teacher Tamai
(1953)
(1952)
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
Weeping Doll
as Ryuji
(1950)
Till We Meet Again
as Saburo Tajima
(1950)
(1949)