Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

6/13/1920 – 9/14/1995Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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 (143 titles)

Secret Liaisons7.0Movie

Secret Liaisons

1995

The Stairway to the Distant Past7.2Movie

The Stairway to the Distant Past

White Man · 1995

Traffic Jam5.6Movie

Traffic Jam

1991

Heat Wave5.9Movie

Heat Wave

Masakichi Ono · 1991

Summer of the Lion Kings8.0Movie

Summer of the Lion Kings

1991

Onihei Hankachō7.8Show

Onihei Hankachō

1989

Green Requiem9.0Movie

Green Requiem

1988

Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa IemitsuShow

Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

1987

Spring Bell7.3Movie

Spring Bell

Hachiro Ishimoto · 1985

Agi, the Fury of Evil8.5Movie

Agi, the Fury of Evil

Omi-no-kami · 1984

Movie

不倫　この愛が裁けますか

1984

Antarctica7.2Movie

Antarctica

Ozawa Taicho · 1983

Praying Mantis5.0Movie

Praying Mantis

Taichi Dôjima · 1983

Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey2.0Movie

Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey

Kozo Hisamatsu · 1982

Cliff of DeathMovie

Cliff of Death

1982

Kamikaze, the Adventurer6.3Movie

Kamikaze, the Adventurer

1981

Movie

Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer

1981

Crazed Fruit5.7Movie

Crazed Fruit

Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦) · 1981

Movie

The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

1980

Magnitude 7.95.8Movie

Magnitude 7.9

Professor Watanabe · 1980

Movie

A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead

1980

Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.16.0Movie

Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

1980

Dog of Fortune5.7Movie

Dog of Fortune

Shuhei Agata · 1979

The Strangling4.8Movie

The Strangling

Yoshio Morikawa · 1979

Blood Type: Blue6.1Movie

Blood Type: Blue

1978

The Beauty of the Black NarcissusMovie

The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

1978

August Without Emperor7.3Movie

August Without Emperor

Assistant General Tokunaga · 1978

Take Me Away!8.0Movie

Take Me Away!

Ryunosuke Tamaru · 1978

The Glacier Fox7.8Movie

The Glacier Fox

Narrator (voice) · 1978

Love and Faith6.4Movie

Love and Faith

Ankokuji · 1978