Eiji Okada

Acting

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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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Fullname:

Eiji Okada

Date of Birth:

1920-06-13

Country:

Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Media of

Eiji Okada

Photos (21)

Filmography of

Eiji Okada

Found 128 movies in total

... 1995

... 1991

Heat Wave

Masakichi Ono

... 1991

... 1988

Spring Bell

Hachiro Ishimoto

... 1985

Agi, the Fury of Evil

Omi-no-kami

... 1984

Antarctica

Ozawa Taicho

... 1983

Praying Mantis

Taichi Dôjima

... 1983

... 1982

... 1982

Crazed Fruit

Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)

... 1981

Magnitude 7.9

Professor Watanabe

... 1980

Dog of Fortune

Shuhei Agata

... 1979

The Strangling

Yoshio Morikawa

... 1979

... 1978

August without Emperor

Assistant General Tokunaga

... 1978

Take Me Away!

Ryunosuke Tamaru

... 1978

The Glacier Fox

Narrator (voice)

... 1978

Love and Faith

Ankokuji

... 1978

Lost Love

Professor Kamiyama

... 1978

... 1977

... 1977

... 1976

Cobra 2

Kudo

... 1976

... 1976

... 1976

... 1976

... 1975

I Am a Cat

Bunmei

... 1975

ESPY

Salabad

... 1974

The Yakuza

Tono

... 1974

Scalpel

Kokubo

... 1974

My Way

Lawyer

... 1974

Lady Snowblood

Gishirō Tsukamoto

... 1973

... 1973

... 1973

Red Target

Mike Tachibana

... 1972

Silence

Inoue Chikugonokami

... 1971

The Earth is Born Again

Mitsuo Iwashita

... 1971

... 1970

Records of Bloodshed

Seiichiro Machida

... 1970

Vixen

Nobuyuki Ishido

... 1969

... 1969

Secret Information

Toru Kijima

... 1968

Gambler's Farewell

Riichirô Maejima

... 1968

... 1967

... 1967

... 1967

... 1966

... 1966

... 1966

Samurai Spy

Tatewaki Koriyama

... 1965

Sanshiro Sugata

Gennosuke / Tesshin

... 1965

The Scarlet Camellia

Genjirô Maruume

... 1964

Assassination

Lord Matsudaira

... 1964

... 1964

Woman in the Dunes

Entomologist Niki Jumpei

... 1964

She and He

Eiichi Ishikawa

... 1963

... 1963

Rififi in Tokyo

Danny Riquet

... 1963

Restoration Fire

Yamanami Keisuke

... 1961

Festival of Swordsmen

Kamio Shume

... 1961

... 1960

The Pirates

Shinzo Murakami

... 1960

... 1960

... 1959

... 1957

... 1956

... 1956

Christ in Bronze

Hagiwara Yusa

... 1955

... 1955

... 1955

... 1955

... 1954

The End of a Day

Leutnant Guni Hanata

... 1954

Hiroshima

Kitagawa

... 1953

Tower of Lilies

Teacher Tamai

... 1953

... 1952

... 1952

Mother

Shinjiro Hirai

... 1952

... 1951

Weeping Doll

Ryuji

... 1951

... 1950

Till We Meet Again

Saburo Tajima

... 1950

... 1949