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