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Quick Facts

Born:
1920-06-13

Birthplace:
Choshi, Chiba, Japan

Credits:
138 Total Roles

Eiji Okada

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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.

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Known For

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

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