Eiji Okada

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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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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
1984	不倫　この愛が裁けますか MOVIE	Self
1983	Antarctica MOVIE	Ozawa Taicho
1983	Praying Mantis MOVIE	Taichi Dôjima
1982	Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey MOVIE	Kozo Hisamatsu
1982	Cliff of Death MOVIE	Self
1981	Kamikaze, the Adventurer MOVIE	Self
1981	Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer MOVIE	Self
1981	Crazed Fruit MOVIE	Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1980	The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail MOVIE	Self
1980	Magnitude 7.9 MOVIE	Professor Watanabe
1980	A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead MOVIE	Self
1980	Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 MOVIE	Self
1979	Dog of Fortune MOVIE	Shuhei Agata
1979	The Strangling MOVIE	Yoshio Morikawa
1978	Blood Type: Blue MOVIE	Self
1978	The Beauty of the Black Narcissus MOVIE	Self
1978	August Without Emperor MOVIE	Assistant General Tokunaga
1978	Take Me Away! MOVIE	Ryunosuke Tamaru
1978	The Glacier Fox MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1978	Love and Faith MOVIE	Ankokuji
1978	Lost Love MOVIE	Professor Kamiyama
1977	Utamaro's World MOVIE	Tanuma
1977	Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu TV	Self
1977	Japanese Humanity and Justice MOVIE	Self
1977	The Young MOVIE	Self
1977	Yokomizo Seishi Series TV	Self
1977	The Gate of Youth Part 2 MOVIE	Self
1977	The Alaska Story MOVIE	Amaohka
1976	Love in the North MOVIE	Self
1976	Stars and Storms MOVIE	Self
1976	Permanent Blue MOVIE	Self
1976	Cobra 2 MOVIE	Kudo
1976	Lullaby of the Earth MOVIE	Evangelist
1976	Frozen River MOVIE	Self
1976	Manhunt MOVIE	Self
1975	Oretachi no Tabi TV	Self
1975	なつかしき海の歌 TV	Self
1975	Kyukei no Koya MOVIE	Self
1975	I Am a Cat MOVIE	Bunmei
1975	Hadashi no seishun MOVIE	Self
1974	ESPY MOVIE	Salabad
1974	The Yakuza MOVIE	Tono
1974	Scalpel MOVIE	Kokubo
1974	My Way MOVIE	Lawyer
1973	Lady Snowblood MOVIE	Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973	Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons MOVIE	Shogen Wakita
1973	Zatoichi's Conspiracy MOVIE	Shinbei
1973	The Killing Game MOVIE	Self
1972	Red Target MOVIE	Mike Tachibana
1971	Silence MOVIE	Inoue Chikugonokami
1971	Evil Spirits in the Darkness MOVIE	Self
1971	The Earth is Born Again MOVIE	Mitsuo Iwashita
1971	Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple MOVIE	(voice)
1970	This Transient Life MOVIE	Mori
1970	Records of Bloodshed MOVIE	Seiichiro Machida
1970	Rebel Against Glory MOVIE	Self
1969	Vixen MOVIE	Nobuyuki Ishido
1969	Bullet Wound MOVIE	Self
1969	夕陽の恋人 MOVIE	Self
1968	Secret Information MOVIE	Toru Kijima
1968	Devil in My Flesh MOVIE	Self
1968	Tattooed Temptress MOVIE	Self
1968	The Sands of Kurobe MOVIE	Self
1968	Gambler's Farewell MOVIE	Riichirô Maejima
1967	The Will to Live MOVIE	Self
1967	Portrait of Chieko MOVIE	Tsubaki
1967	The Rose Colored Two MOVIE	Director Iwamoto
1967	The X from Outer Space MOVIE	Dr. Kato
1967	Rebellion of Japan MOVIE	Self
1966	The Face of Another MOVIE	The Boss
1966	A Sky Full of Tears MOVIE	Nagai
1966	Pretty Devil Yoko MOVIE	Asai
1966	Japan's Most Chivalrous MOVIE	Shuji Onoda
1965	Samurai Spy MOVIE	Tatewaki Koriyama
1965	Sanshiro Sugata MOVIE	Gennosuke / Tesshin
1965	Haigo no hito MOVIE	Masaaki Izumida
1964	The Scarlet Camellia MOVIE	Genjirô Maruume
1964	My Lover MOVIE	Emi Terunobu
1964	Assassination MOVIE	Lord Matsudaira
1964	The Scent of Incense MOVIE	Nozawa
1964	Woman in the Dunes MOVIE	Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1963	She and He MOVIE	Eiichi Ishikawa
1963	The Ugly American MOVIE	Deong
1963	Rififi in Tokyo MOVIE	Danny Riquet
1961	Restoration Fire MOVIE	Yamanami Keisuke
1961	Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku MOVIE	Self
1961	20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2 MOVIE	Self
1961	A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji MOVIE	Self
1961	Festival of Swordsmen MOVIE	Kamio Shume
1961	An Edo Magistrate MOVIE	Self
1961	Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen MOVIE	Self
1960	Shinran, Part II MOVIE	Self
1960	The Pirates MOVIE	Shinzo Murakami
1960	Shinran MOVIE	Self
1960	Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy MOVIE	Self
1960	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4 MOVIE	Self
1960	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3 MOVIE	Self
1960	Return of the One-Armed Swordsman MOVIE	Self
1959	Hiroshima Mon Amour MOVIE	Lui
1959	Hawk of the North MOVIE	Self
1959	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 MOVIE	Self
1958	Fearless Opposition MOVIE	Self
1957	The Eleventh Hour MOVIE	Shimano
1957	The Story of Pure Love MOVIE	Self
1957	Showdown in Blood MOVIE	Self
1957	The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1957	Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1956	恐怖の空中殺人 MOVIE	里見
1956	The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1956	The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom MOVIE	Kogoro Akechi
1956	The Chop Professor MOVIE	Self
1956	Avalanche MOVIE	Self
1956	Five Paths to Revenge MOVIE	Jun Mitani
1955	Christ in Bronze MOVIE	Hagiwara Yusa
1955	Hirado Pirates MOVIE	Self
1955	Here Is a Spring MOVIE	Self
1955	The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes MOVIE	Ensign Asakura
1954	A Billionaire MOVIE	Monta
1954	Hana to hatō MOVIE	Self
1954	The End of a Day MOVIE	Leutnant Guni Hanata
1953	Hiroshima MOVIE	Kitagawa
1953	At the End of the Clouds MOVIE	Self
1953	Tower of Lilies MOVIE	Teacher Tamai
1952	Vacuum Zone MOVIE	Second Lieutenant Okamoto
1952	Violence MOVIE	Self
1952	Mother MOVIE	Shinjiro Hirai
1952	A Ripple in a Morning MOVIE	Self
1952	The Yamabiko School MOVIE	Self
1952	August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan MOVIE	Reporter Saeki
1951	Karate Sanshiro MOVIE	Self
1951	The Stormy Era of Twenty Years MOVIE	Self
1951	The Love Letter Trial MOVIE	Self
1951	Weeping Doll MOVIE	Ryuji
1950	Escape Between Midnight and Dawn MOVIE	Self
1950	Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha MOVIE	Self
1950	White Beast MOVIE	Self
1950	Till We Meet Again MOVIE	Saburo Tajima
1949	A Woman's Face MOVIE	Self

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