Quick Facts
Born:
1920-06-13
Birthplace:
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Credits:
138 Total Roles
Eiji Okada
Acting
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Biography
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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.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Face of Another
The Boss
The Yakuza
Tono
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
Full Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Secret Liaisons MOVIE | Self |
| 1995 | The Stairway to the Distant Past MOVIE | White Man |
| 1991 | Traffic Jam MOVIE | Self |
| 1991 | Heat Wave MOVIE | Masakichi Ono |
| 1991 | Summer of the Lion Kings MOVIE | Self |
| 1989 | Onihei Hankachō TV | Self |
| 1988 | Green Requiem MOVIE | Self |
| 1987 | Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu TV | Self |
| 1985 | Spring Bell MOVIE | Hachiro Ishimoto |
| 1984 | Agi, the Fury of Evil MOVIE | Omi-no-kami |