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Eiji Okada
Actor
Died September 14, 1995 (75 years)
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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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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
Filmography
| 1995 | |
| 1995 | The Stairway to the Distant Past · as White Man |
| 1991 | |
| 1991 | Heat Wave · as Masakichi Ono |
| 1991 | |
| 1989 | Onihei Hankachō (1989) (TV Series) |
| 1983 | Antarctica · as Ozawa Taicho |
| 1983 | Wicked Woman Mantis · as Taichi Dôjima |
| 1981 | |
| 1981 | Crazed Fruit · as Tôno, Chika's Step Father(東野保彦) |
| 1980 | Deathquake · as Professor Watanabe |
| 1979 | The Strangling · as Yoshio Morikawa |
| 1979 | Dog of Fortune · as Shuhei Agata |
| 1978 | |
| 1978 | Monkey (TV Series) · as Venus |
| 1978 | August Without Emperor · as Assistant General Tokunaga |
| 1978 | Take Me Away! · as Ryunosuke Tamaru |
| 1978 | The Glacier Fox · as Narrator (voice) |
| 1978 | Love and Faith · as Ankokuji |
| 1978 | Lost Love · as Professor Kamiyama |
| 1977 | Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu (TV Series) |
| 1977 | Nihon no jingi · as Yohei Inada |
| 1977 | Seishi Yokomizo (TV Series) · as Cast |
| 1977 | Utamaro's World · as Tanuma |
| 1977 | |
| 1977 | The Alaska Story · as Amaohka |
| 1976 | Lullaby of the Earth · as Evangelist |
| 1976 | |
| 1975 | I Am a Cat · as Bunmei |
| 1974 | Esupai · as Salabad |
| 1974 | The Yakuza · as Tono |
| 1973 | Lady Snowblood · as Gishirō Tsukamoto |
| 1973 | Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons · as Shogen Wakita |
| 1973 | Zatoichi's Conspiracy · as Shinbei |
| 1973 | Lone Wolf and Cub (TV Series) · as Lord Sakai |
| 1971 | Silence · as Inoue Chikugonokami |
| 1971 | Yomigaeru daichi · as Mitsuo Iwashita |
| 1970 | This Transient Life · as Mori |
| 1969 | Vixen · as Nobuyuki Ishido |
| 1969 | Tarekomi · as Toru Kijima |
| 1968 | |
| 1968 | Gambler's Farewell · as Riichirô Maejima |
| 1967 | Portrait of Chieko · as Tsubaki |
| 1967 | The X from Outer Space · as Dr. Kato |
| 1967 | |
| 1966 | The Face of Another · as The Boss |
| 1966 | Hikô shôjo Yôko · as Asai |
| 1965 | Samurai Spy · as Tatewaki Koriyama |
| 1965 | Sanshiro Sugata · as Gennosuke / Tesshin |
| 1964 | The Scarlet Camellia · as Genjirô Maruume |
| 1964 | Woman in the Dunes · as Entomologist Niki Jumpei |
| 1964 | Assassination · as Lord Matsudaira |
| 1964 | The Scent of Incense · as Nozawa |
| 1963 | She and He · as Eiichi Ishikawa |
| 1963 | The Ugly American · as Deong |
| 1963 | Rififi in Tokyo · as Danny Riquet |
| 1961 | |
| 1961 | Festival of Swordsmen · as Kamio Shume |
| 1959 | Hiroshima Mon Amour · as Lui |
| 1959 | |
| 1958 | Hijô-sen · as Cast |
| 1957 | They Are Buried Alive · as Shimano |
| 1957 | |
| 1957 | The Boy Detectives Club - The Iron Fiend · as Kogoro Akechi |
| 1957 | Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki · as Kogoro Akechi |
| 1956 | Shônen tantei-dan: Dai ni bu: Nijû mensô no akuma · as Kogoro Akechi |
| 1956 | |
| 1955 | |
| 1953 | Hiroshima · as Kitagawa |
| 1953 | Himeyuri no tô · as Teacher Tamai |
| 1952 | |
| 1952 | Mother · as Shinjiro Hirai |
| 1950 | |
| 1950 | Till We Meet Again · as Saburo Tajima |