Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

1920-06-13 – 1995-09-14 (age 75) Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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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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Known For

Woman in the Dunes
Woman in the Dunes

1964

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Yakuza
The Yakuza

1974

as Tono

The Face of Another
The Face of Another

1966

as The Boss

Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood

1973

as Gishirō Tsukamoto

Spring Bell
Spring Bell

1985

as Hachiro Ishimoto

Heat Wave
Heat Wave

1991

as Masakichi Ono

Crazed Fruit
Crazed Fruit

1981

as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)

Manhunt
Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis

1983

as Taichi Dôjima

Antarctica
Antarctica

1983

as Ozawa Taicho

The Ugly American
The Ugly American

1963

as Deong

Silence
Silence

1971

as Inoue Chikugonokami

An Edo Magistrate
Green Requiem
Rififi in Tokyo
Rififi in Tokyo

1963

as Danny Riquet

The X from Outer Space
The X from Outer Space

1967

as Dr. Kato

Vixen
Vixen

1969

as Nobuyuki Ishido

Five Paths to Revenge
Five Paths to Revenge

1956

as Jun Mitani