Eiji Okada
- Acting
- June 13, 1920 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan
- September 14, 1995
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Secret Liaisons
- The Stairway to the Distant Past · White Man
- Traffic Jam
- Heat Wave · Masakichi Ono
- Summer of the Lion Kings
- Onihei Hankachō
- Green Requiem
- Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
- Spring Bell · Hachiro Ishimoto
- Agi, the Fury of Evil · Omi-no-kami
- 不倫 この愛が裁けますか
- Antarctica · Ozawa Taicho
- Praying Mantis · Taichi Dôjima
- Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey · Kozo Hisamatsu
- Cliff of Death
- Kamikaze, the Adventurer
- Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
- Crazed Fruit · Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
- Magnitude 7.9 · Professor Watanabe
- A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
- Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
- Dog of Fortune · Shuhei Agata
- The Strangling · Yoshio Morikawa
- Blood Type: Blue · Dr. Hyodo
- The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
- August Without Emperor · Assistant General Tokunaga
- Take Me Away! · Ryunosuke Tamaru
- The Glacier Fox · Narrator (Voice)
- Love and Faith · Ankokuji
- Lost Love · Professor Kamiyama
- Utamaro's World · Tanuma
- Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
- Japanese Humanity and Justice
- The Young
- Yokomizo Seishi Series
- The Gate of Youth Part 2
- The Alaska Story · Amaohka
- Love in the North
- Stars and Storms
- Permanent Blue
- Cobra 2 · Kudo
- Lullaby of the Earth · Evangelist
- Frozen River
- Manhunt
- Oretachi no Tabi
- なつかしき海の歌
- Kyukei no Koya
- I Am a Cat · Bunmei
- Hadashi no seishun
- ESPY · Salabad
- The Yakuza · Tono
- Scalpel · Kokubo
- My Way · Lawyer
- Lady Snowblood · Gishirō Tsukamoto
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons · Shogen Wakita
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy · Shinbei
- The Killing Game
- Red Target · Mike Tachibana
- Silence · Inoue Chikugonokami
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- The Earth is Born Again · Mitsuo Iwashita
- Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple · Voice
- This Transient Life · Mori
- Records of Bloodshed · Seiichiro Machida
- Rebel Against Glory
- Vixen · Nobuyuki Ishido
- Bullet Wound
- 夕陽の恋人
- Secret Information · Toru Kijima
- Devil in My Flesh
- Tattooed Temptress
- The Sands of Kurobe
- Gambler's Farewell · Riichirô Maejima
- The Will to Live
- Portrait of Chieko · Tsubaki
- The Rose Colored Two · Director Iwamoto
- The X from Outer Space · Dr. Kato
- Rebellion of Japan
- The Face of Another · The Boss