Eiji Okada
Born
June 13, 1920
Died
September 14, 1995 (75 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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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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Known For
Secret Liaisons
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
White Man
1995
Traffic Jam
1991
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
1991
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
Onihei Hankachō
(1 episode)
1989
Green Requiem
1988
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
(6 episodes)
1987
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
1985
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Omi-no-kami
1984
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
1983
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
1983
Shi no dangai
1982
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1981
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Magnitude 7.9
Professor Watanabe
1980
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
1979
The Strangling
Yoshio Morikawa
1979
Blood Type: Blue
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
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
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
(1 episode)
1977
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
Yokomizo Seishi Series
(1 episode)
1977
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
The Alaska Story
Amaohka
1977
Love in the North
1976
Permanent Blue
1976
Cobra 2
Kudo
1976
Lullaby of the Earth
Evangelist
1976
Frozen River
1976
Manhunt
1976
Oretachi no Tabi
(2 episodes)
1975
Kyukei no Koya
1975
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
1975
Hadashi no seishun
1975
ESPY
Salabad
1974
The Yakuza
Tono
1974
My Way
Lawyer
1974
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Shinbei
1973
The Killing Game
1973
Red Target
Mike Tachibana
1972
Silence
Inoue Chikugonokami
1971
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
The Earth is Born Again
Mitsuo Iwashita
1971
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(voice)
1971
This Transient Life
Mori
1970
Records of Bloodshed
Seiichiro Machida
1970
Rebel Against Glory
1970
Vixen
Nobuyuki Ishido
1969
Bullet Wound
1969
Secret Information
Toru Kijima
1968
Devil in My Flesh
1968
Tattooed Temptress
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Gambler's Farewell
Riichirô Maejima
1968
The Will to Live
1967
Portrait of Chieko
Tsubaki
1967
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
1967
Rebellion of Japan
1967
The Face of Another
The Boss
1966
Pretty Devil Yoko
Asai
1966
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Shuji Onoda
1966
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
1965
Sanshiro Sugata
Gennosuke / Tesshin
1965
The Scarlet Camellia
Genjirô Maruume
1964
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
1964
The Scent of Incense
Nozawa
1964
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1964
She and He
Eiichi Ishikawa
1963
The Ugly American
Deong
1963
Rififi in Tokyo
Danny Riquet
1963
Restoration Fire
Yamanami Keisuke
1961
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
1961
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
Festival of Swordsmen
Kamio Shume
1961
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
Shinran, Part II
1960
The Pirates
Shinzo Murakami
1960
Shinran
1960
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
1959
Hawk of the North
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
Fearless Opposition
1958
The Eleventh Hour
Shimano
1957
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Showdown in Blood
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Kogoro Akechi
1957
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Kogoro Akechi
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Kogoro Akechi
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
Kogoro Akechi
1956
The Chop Professor
1956
Avalanche
1956
Five Paths to Revenge
Jun Mitani
1956
Christ in Bronze
Hagiwara Yusa
1955
Hirado Pirates
1955
Here Is a Spring
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Ensign Asakura
1955
A Billionaire
Monta
1954
The End of a Day
Leutnant Guni Hanata
1954
Hiroshima
Kitagawa
1953
At the End of the Clouds
1953
Tower of Lilies
Teacher Tamai
1953
Vacuum Zone
1952
Violence
1952
Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
The Yamabiko School
1952
Karate Sanshiro
1951
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951
Weeping Doll
Ryuji
1951
White Beast
1950
Till We Meet Again
Saburo Tajima
1950
A Woman's Face
1949