Eiji Okada
Acting
- Born:
- 1920-06-13
- Died:
- 1995-09-14
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Secret Liaisons
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Traffic Jam
Heat Wave
Summer of the Lion Kings
Onihei Hankachō
Green Requiem
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
Spring Bell
Agi, the Fury of Evil
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Antarctica
Praying Mantis
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Cliff of Death
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
Crazed Fruit
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Magnitude 7.9
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Dog of Fortune
The Strangling
Blood Type: Blue
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
August Without Emperor
Take Me Away!
The Glacier Fox
Love and Faith
Lost Love
Utamaro's World
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Japanese Humanity and Justice
The Young
Yokomizo Seishi Series
The Gate of Youth Part 2
The Alaska Story
Love in the North
Stars and Storms
Permanent Blue
Cobra 2
Lullaby of the Earth
Frozen River
Manhunt
Oretachi no Tabi
なつかしき海の歌
Kyukei no Koya
I Am a Cat
Hadashi no seishun
ESPY
The Yakuza
Scalpel
My Way
Lady Snowblood
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
The Killing Game
Red Target
Silence
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The Earth is Born Again
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
This Transient Life
Records of Bloodshed
Rebel Against Glory
Vixen
Bullet Wound
夕陽の恋人
Secret Information
Devil in My Flesh
Tattooed Temptress
The Sands of Kurobe
Gambler's Farewell
The Will to Live
Portrait of Chieko
The Rose Colored Two
The X from Outer Space
Rebellion of Japan
The Face of Another
A Sky Full of Tears
Pretty Devil Yoko
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Samurai Spy
Sanshiro Sugata
Haigo no hito
The Scarlet Camellia
My Lover
Assassination
The Scent of Incense
Woman in the Dunes
She and He
The Ugly American
Rififi in Tokyo
Restoration Fire
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Festival of Swordsmen
An Edo Magistrate
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
Shinran, Part II
The Pirates
Shinran
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hawk of the North
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
The Nameless Man
Fearless Opposition
The Eleventh Hour
The Story of Pure Love
Showdown in Blood
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
恐怖の空中殺人
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
The Chop Professor
Avalanche
Five Paths to Revenge
Christ in Bronze
Hirado Pirates
Here Is a Spring
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
A Billionaire
Hana to hatō
The End of a Day
Hiroshima
At the End of the Clouds
Tower of Lilies
Vacuum Zone
Violence
Mother
A Ripple in a Morning
The Yamabiko School
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
Karate Sanshiro
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
The Love Letter Trial
Weeping Doll
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
White Beast
Till We Meet Again
A Woman's Face