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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 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.​


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Born:
Jun 13, 1920 In Chōshi, Chiba, Japan
Movie/TV Credits:
68
First Appeared:
In the movie Till We Meet Again 1950-03-21
Latest Project:
Movie Shin Usagi Yasei No Touhai 2013-07-06
Known For
Filmography
Movie Shin Usagi Yasei No Touhai 2013-07-06
Movie The Stairway to the Distant Past White Man 1995-03-18
Movie Secret Liaisons 1995-10-28
Movie Heat Wave Masakichi Ono 1991-02-09
Movie Traffic Jam 1991-04-27
Movie Antarctica Ozawa Taicho 1983-07-23
Movie Shi no dangai 1982-01-26
Movie Crazed Fruit Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦) 1981-04-24
Movie Kamikaze, the Adventurer 1981-11-07
Movie Dog of Fortune Shuhei Agata 1979-06-02
Movie Love and Faith Ankokuji 1978-06-03
Movie Lost Love Professor Kamiyama 1978-02-24
Movie Take Me Away! Ryunosuke Tamaru 1978-07-22
Movie August without Emperor Assistant General Tokunaga 1978-09-23
Movie Blood Type: Blue 1978-11-23
Movie The Alaska Story Amaohka 1977-01-22
Movie Utamaro's World Tanuma 1977-02-20
Movie The Gate of Youth Part 2 1977-02-11
Movie Manhunt 1976-02-11
Movie Lullaby of the Earth Evangelist 1976-06-12
Movie Cobra 2 Kudo 1976-06-26
Movie Permanent Blue 1976-09-23
Movie I Am a Cat Bunmei 1975-05-31
Movie My Way Lawyer 1974-09-07
Movie The Yakuza Tono 1974-12-21
Movie ESPY Salabad 1974-12-28
Movie Zatoichi's Conspiracy Shinbei 1973-04-21
Movie Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons Shogen Wakita 1973-08-11
Movie Evil Spirits in the Darkness 1971-06-07
Movie Silence Inoue Chikugonokami 1971-11-13
Movie Vixen Nobuyuki Ishido 1969-10-18
Movie Gambler's Farewell Riichirô Maejima 1968-02-09
Movie The Sands of Kurobe 1968-03-01
Movie Tattooed Temptress 1968-04-13
Movie Secret Information Toru Kijima 1968-05-14
Movie The X from Outer Space Dr. Kato 1967-03-25
Movie Rebellion of Japan 1967-01-14
Movie Portrait of Chieko Tsubaki 1967-06-22
Movie The Face of Another The Boss 1966-07-15
Movie Samurai Spy Tatewaki Koriyama 1965-07-10
Movie The Scent of Incense Nozawa 1964-05-24
Movie Woman in the Dunes Entomologist Niki Jumpei 1964-02-15
Movie Assassination Lord Matsudaira 1964-07-04
Movie The Scarlet Camellia Genjirô Maruume 1964-11-21
Movie The Ugly American Deong 1963-04-02
Movie Rififi in Tokyo Danny Riquet 1963-03-29
Movie She and He Eiichi Ishikawa 1963-10-18
Movie Festival of Swordsmen Kamio Shume 1961-03-21
Movie Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku 1961-07-18
Movie Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy 1960-05-10
Movie Hiroshima Mon Amour Lui 1959-06-10
Movie Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki Kogoro Akechi 1957-05-20
Movie The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend Kogoro Akechi 1957-05-28
Movie The Story of Pure Love 1957-10-15
Movie The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom Kogoro Akechi 1956-11-07
Movie The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces Kogoro Akechi 1956-11-14
Movie The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes Ensign Asakura 1955-01-09
Movie Here Is a Spring 1955-02-12
Movie Christ in Bronze Hagiwara Yusa 1955-10-11
Movie The End of a Day Leutnant Guni Hanata 1954-02-03
Movie A Billionaire Monta 1954-11-22
Movie Hiroshima Kitagawa 1953-10-07
Movie Tower of Lilies Teacher Tamai 1953-01-09
Movie A Ripple in a Morning 1952-05-01
Movie Mother Shinjiro Hirai 1952-06-12
Movie Vacuum Zone 1952-12-10
Movie Till We Meet Again Saburo Tajima 1950-03-21
Movie White Beast 1950-06-03
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