Person
Eiji Okada
Acting · 1920–1995 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
Onihei Hankachō
1989
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
The Face of Another
The Boss
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Oretachi no Tabi
1975
Filmography
- 1995Secret Liaisons
- 1995The Stairway to the Distant PastWhite Man
- 1991Traffic Jam
- 1991Heat WaveMasakichi Ono
- 1991Summer of the Lion Kings
- 1989Onihei Hankachō
- 1988Green Requiem
- 1987Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
- 1985Spring BellHachiro Ishimoto
- 1984Agi, the Fury of EvilOmi-no-kami
- 1984不倫 この愛が裁けますか
- 1983AntarcticaOzawa Taicho
- 1983Praying MantisTaichi Dôjima
- 1982Lady on 6th Street: Taste of HoneyKozo Hisamatsu
- 1982Cliff of Death
- 1981Kamikaze, the Adventurer
- 1981Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
- 1981Crazed FruitTôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- 1980The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
- 1980Magnitude 7.9Professor Watanabe
- 1980A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
- 1980Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
- 1979Dog of FortuneShuhei Agata
- 1979The StranglingYoshio Morikawa
- 1978Blood Type: Blue
- 1978The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
- 1978August Without EmperorAssistant General Tokunaga
- 1978Take Me Away!Ryunosuke Tamaru
- 1978The Glacier FoxNarrator (voice)
- 1978Love and FaithAnkokuji
- 1978Lost LoveProfessor Kamiyama
- 1977Utamaro's WorldTanuma
- 1977Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
- 1977Japanese Humanity and Justice
- 1977The Young
- 1977Yokomizo Seishi Series
- 1977The Gate of Youth Part 2
- 1977The Alaska StoryAmaohka
- 1976Love in the North
- 1976Stars and Storms
- 1976Permanent Blue
- 1976Cobra 2Kudo
- 1976Lullaby of the EarthEvangelist
- 1976Frozen River
- 1976Manhunt
- 1975Oretachi no Tabi
- 1975Kyukei no Koya
- 1975I Am a CatBunmei
- 1975Hadashi no seishun
- 1974ESPYSalabad
- 1974The YakuzaTono
- 1974ScalpelKokubo
- 1974My WayLawyer
- 1973Lady SnowbloodGishirō Tsukamoto
- 1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of DemonsShogen Wakita
- 1973Zatoichi's ConspiracyShinbei
- 1973The Killing Game
- 1972Red TargetMike Tachibana
- 1971SilenceInoue Chikugonokami
- 1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- 1971The Earth is Born AgainMitsuo Iwashita
- 1971Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple(voice)
- 1970This Transient LifeMori
- 1970Records of BloodshedSeiichiro Machida
- 1970Rebel Against Glory
- 1969VixenNobuyuki Ishido
- 1969Bullet Wound
- 1969夕陽の恋人
- 1968Secret InformationToru Kijima
- 1968Devil in My Flesh
- 1968Tattooed Temptress
- 1968The Sands of Kurobe
- 1968Gambler's FarewellRiichirô Maejima
- 1967The Will to Live
- 1967Portrait of ChiekoTsubaki
- 1967The Rose Colored TwoDirector Iwamoto
- 1967The X from Outer SpaceDr. Kato
- 1967Rebellion of Japan
- 1966The Face of AnotherThe Boss
- 1966Pretty Devil YokoAsai
- 1966Japan's Most ChivalrousShuji Onoda
- 1965Samurai SpyTatewaki Koriyama
- 1965Sanshiro SugataGennosuke / Tesshin
- 1965Haigo no hitoMasaaki Izumida
- 1964The Scarlet CamelliaGenjirô Maruume
- 1964AssassinationLord Matsudaira
- 1964The Scent of IncenseNozawa
- 1964Woman in the DunesEntomologist Niki Jumpei
- 1963She and HeEiichi Ishikawa
- 1963The Ugly AmericanDeong
- 1963Rififi in TokyoDanny Riquet
- 1961Restoration FireYamanami Keisuke
- 1961Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
- 196120 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
- 1961A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
- 1961Festival of SwordsmenKamio Shume
- 1961An Edo Magistrate
- 1961Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
- 1960Shinran, Part II
- 1960The PiratesShinzo Murakami
- 1960Shinran
- 1960Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
- 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
- 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
- 1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
- 1959Hiroshima Mon AmourLui
- 1959Hawk of the North
- 1959Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
- 1958Fearless Opposition
- 1957The Eleventh HourShimano
- 1957The Story of Pure Love
- 1957Showdown in Blood
- 1957The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron FiendKogoro Akechi
- 1957Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no YokiKogoro Akechi
- 1956恐怖の空中殺人里見
- 1956The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty FacesKogoro Akechi
- 1956The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor PhantomKogoro Akechi
- 1956The Chop Professor
- 1956Avalanche
- 1956Five Paths to RevengeJun Mitani
- 1955Christ in BronzeHagiwara Yusa
- 1955Hirado Pirates
- 1955Here Is a Spring
- 1955The Sacrifice of the Human TorpedoesEnsign Asakura
- 1954A BillionaireMonta
- 1954Hana to hatō
- 1954The End of a DayLeutnant Guni Hanata
- 1953HiroshimaKitagawa
- 1953At the End of the Clouds
- 1953Tower of LiliesTeacher Tamai
- 1952Vacuum Zone
- 1952Violence
- 1952MotherShinjiro Hirai
- 1952A Ripple in a Morning
- 1952The Yamabiko School
- 1952August 15, 1945, New Dawn For JapanReporter Saeki
- 1951Karate Sanshiro
- 1951The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
- 1951The Love Letter Trial
- 1951Weeping DollRyuji
- 1950White Beast
- 1950Till We Meet AgainSaburo Tajima
- 1949A Woman's Face
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