Eiji Okada
Known for Acting · 140 credits
- Born
- 1920-06-13
- Died
- 1995-09-14
- Place of birth
- Choshi, Chiba, Japan
- 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.
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Known For
TV Shows (5)
Movies (135)
Spring Bell
1985
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Woman in the Dunes
1964
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
1973
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Face of Another
1966
as The Boss
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
as Lui
Magnitude 7.9
1980
as Professor Watanabe
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
as Ensign Asakura
Crazed Fruit
1981
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Yakuza
1974
as Tono
The Scarlet Camellia
1964
as Genjirô Maruume
Antarctica
1983
as Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
1983
as Taichi Dôjima
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
as Shogen Wakita
This Transient Life
1970
as Mori
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Pretty Devil Yoko
1966
as Asai
August Without Emperor
1978
as Assistant General Tokunaga
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
as Evangelist
ESPY
1974
as Salabad
Silence
1971
as Inoue Chikugonokami
Utamaro's World
1977
as Tanuma
Tattooed Temptress
1968
Manhunt
1976
The Chop Professor
1956
Mother
1952
as Shinjiro Hirai
Heat Wave
1991
as Masakichi Ono
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Dog of Fortune
1979
as Shuhei Agata
The Eleventh Hour
1957
as Shimano
Lost Love
1978
as Professor Kamiyama
Samurai Spy
1965
as Tatewaki Koriyama
Hawk of the North
1959
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
Till We Meet Again
1950
as Saburo Tajima
The Ugly American
1963
as Deong
The Scent of Incense
1964
as Nozawa
The Will to Live
1967
The X from Outer Space
1967
as Dr. Kato
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
as White Man
The Yamabiko School
1952
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
Blood Type: Blue
1978
Frozen River
1976
Assassination
1964
as Lord Matsudaira
A Billionaire
1954
as Monta
Weeping Doll
1951
as Ryuji
Kyukei no Koya
1975
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
Restoration Fire
1961
as Yamanami Keisuke
Secret Information
1968
as Toru Kijima
Portrait of Chieko
1967
as Tsubaki
Five Paths to Revenge
1956
as Jun Mitani
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
I Am a Cat
1975
as Bunmei
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
Green Requiem
1988
Vixen
1969
as Nobuyuki Ishido
The Pirates
1960
as Shinzo Murakami
Here Is a Spring
1955
Avalanche
1956
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
The Strangling
1979
as Yoshio Morikawa
Fearless Opposition
1958
My Way
1974
as Lawyer
Cliff of Death
1982
Permanent Blue
1976
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973
as Shinbei
Love and Faith
1978
as Ankokuji
The Glacier Fox
1978
as Narrator (voice)
An Edo Magistrate
1961
Japan's Most Chivalrous
1966
as Shuji Onoda
Cobra 2
1976
as Kudo
Hiroshima
1953
as Kitagawa
Tower of Lilies
1953
as Teacher Tamai
At the End of the Clouds
1953
Take Me Away!
1978
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
A Woman's Face
1949
Vacuum Zone
1952
Rebellion of Japan
1967
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
The End of a Day
1954
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
Karate Sanshiro
1951
Festival of Swordsmen
1961
as Kamio Shume
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
1957
as Kogoro Akechi
White Beast
1950
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
1956
as Kogoro Akechi
Rebel Against Glory
1970
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
Shinran, Part II
1960
Devil in My Flesh
1968
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
The Alaska Story
1977
as Amaohka
Traffic Jam
1991
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
The Earth is Born Again
1971
as Mitsuo Iwashita
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
Rififi in Tokyo
1963
as Danny Riquet
Bullet Wound
1969
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
Secret Liaisons
1995
Showdown in Blood
1957
Love in the North
1976
Shinran
1960
Christ in Bronze
1955
as Hagiwara Yusa
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
1956
as Kogoro Akechi
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
Violence
1952
Red Target
1972
as Mike Tachibana
Records of Bloodshed
1970
as Seiichiro Machida
Gambler's Farewell
1968
as Riichirô Maejima
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1982
as Kozo Hisamatsu
Scalpel
1974
as Kokubo
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984
as Omi-no-kami
The Killing Game
1973
About Eiji Okada
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 Was… With 140 credits spanning from 1949 to 1995, Eiji Okada has appeared in 135 films and 5 TV shows.
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- Spring Bell (1985) — as Hachiro Ishimoto
- Woman in the Dunes (1964) — as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- Lady Snowblood (1973) — as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- The Face of Another (1966) — as The Boss
- Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959) — as Lui
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