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

Lady Snowblood
Lady Snowblood

1973

as Gishirō Tsukamoto

Woman in the Dunes
Woman in the Dunes

1964

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

Spring Bell
Spring Bell

1985

as Hachiro Ishimoto

The Face of Another
The Face of Another

1966

as The Boss

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Crazed Fruit
Crazed Fruit

1981

as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)

The Yakuza
The Yakuza

1974

as Tono

Lullaby of the Earth
Lullaby of the Earth

1976

as Evangelist

Antarctica
Antarctica

1983

as Ozawa Taicho

Manhunt
The Scarlet Camellia
The Scarlet Camellia

1964

as Genjirô Maruume

Heat Wave
Heat Wave

1991

as Masakichi Ono

ESPY
ESPY

1974

as Salabad

Praying Mantis
Praying Mantis

1983

as Taichi Dôjima

Magnitude 7.9
Magnitude 7.9

1980

as Professor Watanabe