Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 13, 1920
Died
Sep 14, 1995
Place of Birth
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Credits
146 titles
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
Secret Liaisons
The Stairway to the Distant Past
White Man
Traffic Jam
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
Summer of the Lion Kings
Onihei Hankachō
Green Requiem
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Omi-no-kami
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Kozo Hisamatsu
Cliff of Death
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Magnitude 7.9
Professor Watanabe
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
The Strangling
Yoshio Morikawa
Blood Type: Blue
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
August Without Emperor
Assistant General Tokunaga
Take Me Away!
Ryunosuke Tamaru
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
Love and Faith
Ankokuji
Lost Love
Professor Kamiyama
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Japanese Humanity and Justice
The Young
Yokomizo Seishi Series
The Gate of Youth Part 2
The Alaska Story
Amaohka
Love in the North
Stars and Storms
Permanent Blue
Cobra 2
Kudo
Lullaby of the Earth
Evangelist
Frozen River
Manhunt
Oretachi no Tabi
なつかしき海の歌
Kyukei no Koya
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
Hadashi no seishun