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Eiji Okada

Acting

Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada is an actor born on June 13, 1920 in Choshi, Chiba, Japan. He died on September 14, 1995, aged 75. He is known for Hiroshima Mon Amour, Woman in the Dunes and The Face of Another. GloboWatch shows where to watch one of his movies and TV shows, country by country.

Known for
Acting
Born
June 13, 1920
Place of birth
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Died
September 14, 1995
Also known as
Okada Eiji · Эйдзи Окада

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.​

Filmography

  1. 1995The Stairway to the Distant Pastas White Man
  2. 1991Traffic Jam
  3. 1991Heat Waveas Masakichi Ono
  4. 1989Onihei Hankachō1 episode
  5. 1985Spring Bellas Hachiro Ishimoto
  6. 1983Antarcticaas Ozawa Taicho
  7. 1983Praying Mantisas Taichi Dôjima
  8. 1981Kamikaze, the Adventurer
  9. 1981Crazed Fruitas Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
  10. 1980Magnitude 7.9as Professor Watanabe
  11. 1979The Stranglingas Yoshio Morikawa
  12. 1979Dog of Fortuneas Shuhei Agata
  13. 1978Blood Type: Blueas Dr. Hyodo
  14. 1978August Without Emperoras Assistant General Tokunaga
  15. 1978Take Me Away!as Ryunosuke Tamaru
  16. 1978The Glacier Foxas Narrator (voice)
  17. 1978Love and Faithas Ankokuji
  18. 1978Lost Loveas Professor Kamiyama
  19. 1977Utamaro's Worldas Tanuma
  20. 1976Lullaby of the Earthas Evangelist
  21. 1976Manhunt
  22. 1975I Am a Catas Bunmei
  23. 1974ESPYas Salabad
  24. 1974The Yakuzaas Tono
  25. 1974My Wayas Lawyer
  26. 1973Lady Snowbloodas Gishirō Tsukamoto
  27. 1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demonsas Shogen Wakita
  28. 1973Zatoichi's Conspiracyas Shinbei
  29. 1971Silenceas Inoue Chikugonokami
  30. 1970This Transient Lifeas Mori
  31. 1969Vixenas Nobuyuki Ishido
  32. 1968The Sands of Kurobe
  33. 1967The X from Outer Spaceas Dr. Kato
  34. 1966The Face of Anotheras The Boss
  35. 1966Pretty Devil Yokoas Asai
  36. 1965Samurai Spyas Tatewaki Koriyama
  37. 1965Sanshiro Sugataas Gennosuke / Tesshin
  38. 1964The Scarlet Camelliaas Genjirô Maruume
  39. 1964Assassinationas Lord Matsudaira
  40. 1964The Scent of Incenseas Nozawa
  41. 1964Woman in the Dunesas Entomologist Niki Jumpei
  42. 1963She and Heas Eiichi Ishikawa
  43. 1963The Ugly Americanas Deong
  44. 1963Rififi in Tokyoas Danny Riquet
  45. 1961A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
  46. 1961Festival of Swordsmenas Kamio Shume
  47. 1961An Edo Magistrate
  48. 1960The Piratesas Shinzo Murakami
  49. 1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
  50. 1959Hiroshima Mon Amouras Lui
  51. 1959Hawk of the North
  52. 1957The Eleventh Houras Shimano
  53. 1957The Story of Pure Love
  54. 1955Here Is a Spring
  55. 1954A Billionaireas Monta
  56. 1953Hiroshimaas Kitagawa
  57. 1953Tower of Liliesas Teacher Tamai
  58. 1952Motheras Shinjiro Hirai
  59. 1950White Beast
  60. 1950Till We Meet Againas Saburo Tajima