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

Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood

1973

as Gishirō Tsukamoto

Crazed Fruit
Crazed Fruit

1981

as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)

The Face of Another
The Face of Another

1966

as The Boss

Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
The Yakuza
The Yakuza

1974

as Tono

ESPY
ESPY

1974

as Salabad

Spring Bell
Spring Bell

1985

as Hachiro Ishimoto

Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis

1983

as Taichi Dôjima

Manhunt
The X from Outer Space
The X from Outer Space

1967

as Dr. Kato

August Without Emperor
August Without Emperor

1978

as Assistant General Tokunaga

Antarctica
Antarctica

1983

as Ozawa Taicho

Utamaro's World
Utamaro's World

1977

as Tanuma

The Glacier Fox
The Glacier Fox

1978

as Narrator (voice)

Mother
Mother

1952

as Shinjiro Hirai