Eiji Okada

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-06-13 (75 years old)

Deathday

1995-09-14

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...

Acting

1968

Gambler's Farewell

as Riichirô Maejima

1973

Lady Snowblood

as Gishirō Tsukamoto

1974

The Yakuza

as Tono

1952

Mother

as Shinjiro Hirai

1966

1967

1964

Woman in the Dunes

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

1983

Antarctica

as Ozawa Taicho

1965

Samurai Spy

as Tatewaki Koriyama

1977

1973

1963

1985

Spring Bell

as Hachiro Ishimoto

1964

Assassination

as Lord Matsudaira

1970

Records of Bloodshed

as Seiichiro Machida

1975

I Am a Cat

as Bunmei

1991

Heat Wave

as Masakichi Ono

1963

She and He

as Eiichi Ishikawa

1978

Lost Love

as Professor Kamiyama

1978

The Glacier Fox

as Narrator (voice)

1954

1974

My Way

as Lawyer

1963

Rififi in Tokyo

as Danny Riquet

1974

ESPY

as Salabad

1953

Hiroshima

as Kitagawa

1955

Christ in Bronze

as Hagiwara Yusa

1978

August without Emperor

as Assistant General Tokunaga

1965

Sanshiro Sugata

as Gennosuke / Tesshin

1976

1978

Love and Faith

as Ankokuji

1979

Dog of Fortune

as Shuhei Agata

1977

1971

Silence

as Inoue Chikugonokami

1969

Vixen

as Nobuyuki Ishido

1976

Cobra 2

as Kudo

1950

Till We Meet Again

as Saburo Tajima

1953

Tower of Lilies

as Teacher Tamai

1954

The End of a Day

as Leutnant Guni Hanata

1979

The Strangling

as Yoshio Morikawa

1968

Secret Information

as Toru Kijima

1967

1961

Festival of Swordsmen

as Kamio Shume

1964

The Scarlet Camellia

as Genjirô Maruume

1972

Red Target

as Mike Tachibana

1981

Crazed Fruit

as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)

1956

1951

Weeping Doll

as Ryuji

1983

Praying Mantis

as Taichi Dôjima

1984

Agi, the Fury of Evil

as Omi-no-kami

1957

1980

Magnitude 7.9

as Professor Watanabe

1961

Restoration Fire

as Yamanami Keisuke

1960

The Pirates

as Shinzo Murakami

1966

1978

Take Me Away!

as Ryunosuke Tamaru

1971

The Earth is Born Again

as Mitsuo Iwashita

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