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Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Actor · Born 1920-06-13 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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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.​

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) — Lui
  2. Woman in the Dunes (1964) — Entomologist Niki Jumpei
  3. Lady Snowblood (1973) — Gishirō Tsukamoto
  4. The Face of Another (1966) — The Boss
  5. The Yakuza (1974) — Tono
  6. Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) — Shogen Wakita
  7. Antarctica (1983) — Ozawa Taicho
  8. Samurai Spy (1965) — Tatewaki Koriyama
  9. The X from Outer Space (1967) — Dr. Kato
  10. This Transient Life (1970) — Mori
  11. Assassination (1964) — Lord Matsudaira
  12. Silence (1971) — Inoue Chikugonokami
  13. The Ugly American (1963) — Deong
  14. Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973) — Shinbei
  15. Hiroshima (1953) — Kitagawa
  16. Manhunt (1976)
  17. Mother (1952) — Shinjiro Hirai
  18. Crazed Fruit (1981) — Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
  19. Lullaby of the Earth (1976) — Evangelist
  20. Heat Wave (1991) — Masakichi Ono
  21. Rififi in Tokyo (1963) — Danny Riquet
  22. White Beast (1950)
  23. She and He (1963) — Eiichi Ishikawa
  24. The Scent of Incense (1964) — Nozawa
  25. Sanshiro Sugata (1965) — Gennosuke / Tesshin
  26. Till We Meet Again (1950) — Saburo Tajima
  27. Utamaro's World (1977) — Tanuma
  28. ESPY (1974) — Salabad
  29. The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995) — White Man
  30. Blood Type: Blue (1978)
  31. Tower of Lilies (1953) — Teacher Tamai
  32. The Strangling (1979) — Yoshio Morikawa
  33. Festival of Swordsmen (1961) — Kamio Shume
  34. Onihei Hankachō (1989)
  35. The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
  36. The Eleventh Hour (1957) — Shimano
  37. Love and Faith (1978) — Ankokuji
  38. Vixen (1969) — Nobuyuki Ishido
  39. Kamikaze, the Adventurer (1981)
  40. The Scarlet Camellia (1964) — Genjirô Maruume