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 Prefecture, Japan
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 114
- 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 |
| Series | Onihei Hankachō | Unknown | 1989-07-12 |
| Movie | Green Requiem | 1988-08-20 | |
| Series | Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu | Unknown | 1987-01-02 |
| Movie | Spring Bell | Hachiro Ishimoto | 1985-11-09 |
| Movie | Agi, the Fury of Evil | Omi-no-kami | 1984-12-04 |
| Movie | Antarctica | Ozawa Taicho | 1983-07-23 |
| Movie | Praying Mantis | Taichi Dôjima | 1983-04-08 |
| 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 | Unknown | 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 | The Glacier Fox | Narrator (voice) | 1978-07-15 |
| Movie | The Beauty of the Black Narcissus | Unknown | 1978-10-14 |
| Movie | Blood Type: Blue | 1978-11-23 | |
| Movie | Take Me Away! | 1978-07-22 | |
| Movie | August without Emperor | Assistant General Tokunaga | 1978-09-23 |
| 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 |
| Series | Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu | Unknown | 1977-08-20 |
| Movie | Frozen River | Unknown | 1976-04-24 |
| Movie | Lullaby of the Earth | Evangelist | 1976-06-12 |
| Movie | Manhunt | 1976-02-11 | |
| Movie | Love in the North | 1976-11-06 | |
| Movie | Permanent Blue | 1976-09-23 | |
| Movie | Cobra 2 | Kudo | 1976-06-26 |
| Movie | Hadashi no seishun | 1975-04-12 | |
| Movie | I Am a Cat | Bunmei | 1975-05-31 |
| Series | Oretachi no Tabi | 1975-10-05 | |
| 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 | Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple | (voice) | 1971-01-01 |
| Movie | Silence | Inoue Chikugonokami | 1971-11-13 |
| Movie | Evil Spirits in the Darkness | 1971-06-07 | |
| Movie | Rebel Against Glory | Unknown | 1970-04-04 |
| Movie | This Transient Life | Mori | 1970-08-08 |
| Movie | Records of Bloodshed | Seiichiro Machida | 1970-06-10 |
| 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 | Devil in My Flesh | 1968-05-01 | |
| Movie | Secret Information | Toru Kijima | 1968-05-14 |
| Movie | Rebellion of Japan | 1967-01-14 | |
| Movie | The X from Outer Space | Dr. Kato | 1967-03-25 |
| Movie | Portrait of Chieko | Tsubaki | 1967-06-22 |
| Movie | The Will to Live | 1967-07-08 | |
| Movie | Japan's Most Chivalrous | Shuji Onoda | 1966-03-19 |
| Movie | The Face of Another | The Boss | 1966-07-15 |
| Movie | Pretty Devil Yoko | Asai | 1966-03-19 |
| 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 | Unknown | 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 | Unknown | 1961-07-18 |
| Movie | Restoration Fire | Yamanami Keisuke | 1961-10-14 |
| Movie | Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4 | Unknown | 1960-04-16 |
| Movie | Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3 | Unknown | 1960-03-27 |
| Movie | Shinran | 1960-06-21 | |
| Movie | Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy | Unknown | 1960-05-10 |
| Movie | The Pirates | Shinzo Murakami | 1960-09-18 |
| Movie | Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 | Unknown | 1959-01-01 |
| Movie | Hiroshima Mon Amour | Lui | 1959-06-10 |
| Movie | Hawk of the North | 1959-05-25 | |
| Movie | Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki | Kogoro Akechi | 1957-05-20 |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend | Kogoro Akechi | 1957-05-28 |
| Movie | Showdown in Blood | Unknown | 1957-08-28 |
| Movie | The Eleventh Hour | Shimano | 1957-11-24 |
| Movie | The Story of Pure Love | 1957-10-15 | |
| Movie | Five Paths to Revenge | Jun Mitani | 1956-01-22 |
| Movie | The Chop Professor | Unknown | 1956-04-04 |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces | Kogoro Akechi | 1956-11-14 |
| Movie | The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom | Kogoro Akechi | 1956-11-07 |
| 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 | 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 | At the End of the Clouds | Unknown | 1953-06-09 |
| Movie | Hiroshima | Kitagawa | 1953-10-07 |
| Movie | The Yamabiko School | 1952-05-01 | |
| Movie | A Ripple in a Morning | Unknown | 1952-05-01 |
| Movie | Mother | Shinjiro Hirai | 1952-06-12 |
| Movie | Vacuum Zone | 1952-12-10 | |
| Movie | Weeping Doll | Ryuji | 1951-05-19 |
| Movie | The Stormy Era of Twenty Years | 1951-11-16 | |
| Movie | Karate Sanshiro | 1951-12-28 | |
| Movie | Till We Meet Again | Saburo Tajima | 1950-03-21 |
| Movie | White Beast | 1950-06-03 |
