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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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Born
Sunday, 13 June 1920
Died
Thursday, 14 September 1995
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Stairway to the Distant Past | White man | 1995 |
Traffic Jam | Ichimatsu, Grandfather | 1991 |
Heat Wave | Masakichi Ono | 1991 |
Ôidippsu no katana | Shunsuke's uncle | 1986 |
Wicked Woman Mantis | Taichi Dôjima | 1983 |
Antarctica | Chief Ozawa / Ozawa Taicho | 1983 |
Bôkensha kamikaze | Yuzo Dojima | 1981 |
Crazed Fruit | Tôno, Chika's step father | 1981 |
Deathquake | Professor Watanabe | 1980 |
Dog of Fortune | Shuhei Agata | 1979 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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The Stairway to the Distant Past | White man | 1995 |
Traffic Jam | Ichimatsu, Grandfather | 1991 |
Heat Wave | Masakichi Ono | 1991 |
Ôidippsu no katana | Shunsuke's uncle | 1986 |
Wicked Woman Mantis | Taichi Dôjima | 1983 |
Antarctica | Chief Ozawa / Ozawa Taicho | 1983 |
Bôkensha kamikaze | Yuzo Dojima | 1981 |
Crazed Fruit | Tôno, Chika's step father | 1981 |
Deathquake | Professor Watanabe | 1980 |
Dog of Fortune | Shuhei Agata | 1979 |
The Strangling | Yoshio Morikawa | 1979 |
Blue Christmas | Teruhiko Hyodo | 1978 |
Monkey | Venus | 1978 |
August Without Emperor | Tokunaga / Assistant General Tokunaga | 1978 |
Take Me Away! | Ryunosuke Tamaru | 1978 |
The Glacier Fox | Original Japanese narrator / Narrator (voice) | 1978 |
Love and Faith | Ankokuji | 1978 |
Lost Love | Professor Kamiyama | 1978 |
Nihon no jingi | Yohei Inada | 1977 |
Utamaro's World | Tanuma | 1977 |
The Gate of Youth Part 2 | Minoru Yuki | 1977 |
The Alaska Story | Amaohka | 1977 |
Cobra 2 | President Kudo / Kudo | 1976 |
Lullaby of the Earth | Evangelist | 1976 |
Manhunt | 1976 | |
I Am a Cat | Bunmei | 1975 |
Esupai | Salabad | 1974 |
The Yakuza | Tono | 1974 |
My Way | Lawyer | 1974 |
Lady Snowblood | Gishirô Tsukamoto / Gishirō Tsukamoto | 1973 |
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons | Wakita / Shogen Wakita | 1973 |
Zatoichi's Conspiracy | Shinbei of Hitachiya / Shinbei | 1973 |
Silence | Inoue Chikugonokami | 1971 |
Yami no naka no chimimoryo | Ikezoe | 1971 |
Yomigaeru daichi | Mitsuo iwashita | 1971 |
This Transient Life | Mori / sculptor | 1970 |
Vixen | Nobuyuki Ishido | 1969 |
Bullet Wound | George Kitabayashi | 1969 |
New Cruel Tattoo Story: Code of the Sword | 1968 | |
Tarekomi | Toru Kijima | 1968 |
Tattooed Temptress | 1968 | |
The Sands of Kurobe | Yoshino | 1968 |
Gambler's Farewell | Riichirô Maejima | 1968 |
Showa no inochi | 1968 | |
Chieko-sho | Tsubaki | 1967 |
The X from Outer Space | Dr. Kato | 1967 |
Rebellion of Japan | Captain Andô | 1967 |
Barairo no futari | 1967 | |
The Face of Another | The Boss | 1966 |
Hikô shôjo Yôko | Asai | 1966 |
Bosû wa ore no kenjû de | 1966 | |
Samurai Spy | Tatewaki Koriyama | 1965 |
The Scarlet Camellia | Genjirô Maruume | 1964 |
Assassination | Lord Matsudaira | 1964 |
The Scent of Incense | 1964 | |
Woman in the Dunes | Entomologist Niki Jumpei / Niki Jumpei | 1964 |
She and He | Eiichi Ishikawa | 1963 |
The Ugly American | Deong | 1963 |
Rififi in Tokyo | Danny Riquet | 1963 |
Restoration, Inc | Yamanami Keisuke | 1961 |
Festival of Swordsmen | Kamio Shume | 1961 |
Shinran | Shiro Amagi | 1960 |
Ôzora no muhômono | 1960 | |
Hiroshima Mon Amour | Lui | 1959 |
Shingo juban-shobu | Shozaburo Masaki | 1959 |
They Are Buried Alive | Shimano | 1957 |
Jun'ai monogatari | Shitayama | 1957 |
Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki | Kogoro Akechi | 1957 |
Christ in Bronze | Hagiwara Yusa | 1955 |
Ningen gyorai kaiten | 1955 | |
A Billionaire | Monta | 1954 |
Hi No Hate | Hanada, military doctor | 1954 |
Hiroshima | Kitagawa | 1953 |
Himeyuri no tô | Teacher Tamai | 1953 |
Shinkû chitai | Okamoto | 1952 |
Mother | Shinjiro / Shinjiro Hirai | 1952 |
School of Echoes | 1952 | |
Asa no hamon | Kajigoro | 1952 |
Reimei hachigatsu jûgo-nichi | 1952 | |
Koibumi saiban | 1951 | |
Till We Meet Again | Tajima Saburo / Saburo Tajima | 1950 |
Hana no sugao | 1949 |