Eiji Okada
June 13, 1920 (104 years old) in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, 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.
Known For
Credits
- 1995 · Secret Liaisons as
- 1995 · The Stairway to the Distant Past as White Man
- 1991 · Traffic Jam as
- 1991 · Heat Wave as Masakichi Ono
- 1991 · Summer of the Lion Kings as
- 1989 · Onihei Hankachō as
- 1988 · Green Requiem as
- 1987 · Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu as
- 1985 · Spring Bell as Hachiro Ishimoto
- 1984 · Agi, the Fury of Evil as Omi-no-kami
- 1983 · Antarctica as Ozawa Taicho
- 1983 · Praying Mantis as Taichi Dôjima
- 1982 · Shi no dangai as
- 1981 · Kamikaze, the Adventurer as
- 1981 · Crazed Fruit as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- 1980 · The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail as
- 1980 · Magnitude 7.9 as Professor Watanabe
- 1980 · Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 as
- 1979 · Dog of Fortune as Shuhei Agata
- 1979 · The Strangling as Yoshio Morikawa
- 1978 · Blood Type: Blue as
- 1978 · The Beauty of the Black Narcissus as
- 1978 · August without Emperor as Assistant General Tokunaga
- 1978 · Take Me Away! as Ryunosuke Tamaru
- 1978 · The Glacier Fox as Narrator (voice)
- 1978 · Love and Faith as Ankokuji
- 1978 · Lost Love as Professor Kamiyama
- 1977 · Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu as
- 1977 · Yokomizo Seishi Series as
- 1977 · Utamaro's World as Tanuma
- 1977 · The Gate of Youth Part 2 as
- 1977 · The Alaska Story as Amaohka
- 1976 · Love in the North as
- 1976 · Permanent Blue as
- 1976 · Cobra 2 as Kudo
- 1976 · Lullaby of the Earth as Evangelist
- 1976 · Frozen River as
- 1976 · Manhunt as
- 1975 · Oretachi no Tabi as
- 1975 · Kyukei no Koya as
- 1975 · I Am a Cat as Bunmei
- 1975 · Hadashi no seishun as
- 1974 · ESPY as Salabad
- 1974 · The Yakuza as Tono
- 1974 · My Way as Lawyer
- 1973 · Lady Snowblood as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- 1973 · Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as Shogen Wakita
- 1973 · Zatoichi's Conspiracy as Shinbei
- 1973 · The Killing Game as
- 1972 · Red Target as Mike Tachibana
- 1971 · Silence as Inoue Chikugonokami
- 1971 · Evil Spirits in the Darkness as
- 1971 · The Earth is Born Again as Mitsuo Iwashita
- 1971 · Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple as (voice)
- 1970 · This Transient Life as Mori
- 1970 · Records of Bloodshed as Seiichiro Machida
- 1970 · Rebel Against Glory as
- 1969 · Vixen as Nobuyuki Ishido
- 1969 · Bullet Wound as
- 1968 · Secret Information as Toru Kijima
- 1968 · Devil in My Flesh as
- 1968 · Tattooed Temptress as
- 1968 · The Sands of Kurobe as
- 1968 · Gambler's Farewell as Riichirô Maejima
- 1967 · The Will to Live as
- 1967 · Portrait of Chieko as Tsubaki
- 1967 · The X from Outer Space as Dr. Kato
- 1967 · Rebellion of Japan as
- 1966 · The Face of Another as The Boss
- 1966 · Pretty Devil Yoko as Asai
- 1966 · Japan's Most Chivalrous as Shuji Onoda
- 1965 · Samurai Spy as Tatewaki Koriyama
- 1965 · Sanshiro Sugata as Gennosuke / Tesshin
- 1964 · The Scarlet Camellia as Genjirô Maruume
- 1964 · Assassination as Lord Matsudaira
- 1964 · The Scent of Incense as Nozawa
- 1964 · Woman in the Dunes as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- 1963 · She and He as Eiichi Ishikawa
- 1963 · The Ugly American as Deong
- 1963 · Rififi in Tokyo as Danny Riquet
- 1961 · Restoration Fire as Yamanami Keisuke
- 1961 · Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku as
- 1961 · 20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2 as
- 1961 · A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji as
- 1961 · Festival of Swordsmen as Kamio Shume
- 1960 · Shinran, Part II as
- 1960 · The Pirates as Shinzo Murakami
- 1960 · Shinran as
- 1960 · Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy as
- 1960 · Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4 as
- 1960 · Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3 as
- 1959 · Hiroshima Mon Amour as Lui
- 1959 · Hawk of the North as
- 1959 · Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 as
- 1958 · Fearless Opposition as
- 1957 · The Eleventh Hour as Shimano
- 1957 · The Story of Pure Love as
- 1957 · Showdown in Blood as
- 1957 · The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend as Kogoro Akechi
- 1957 · Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956 · The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956 · The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956 · The Chop Professor as
- 1956 · Avalanche as
- 1956 · Five Paths to Revenge as Jun Mitani
- 1955 · Christ in Bronze as Hagiwara Yusa
- 1955 · Hirado Pirates as
- 1955 · Here Is a Spring as
- 1955 · The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Asakura
- 1954 · A Billionaire as Monta
- 1954 · The End of a Day as Leutnant Guni Hanata
- 1953 · Hiroshima as Kitagawa
- 1953 · At the End of the Clouds as
- 1953 · Tower of Lilies as Teacher Tamai
- 1952 · Vacuum Zone as
- 1952 · Violence as
- 1952 · Mother as Shinjiro Hirai
- 1952 · A Ripple in a Morning as
- 1952 · The Yamabiko School as
- 1951 · Karate Sanshiro as
- 1951 · The Stormy Era of Twenty Years as
- 1951 · Weeping Doll as Ryuji
- 1950 · White Beast as
- 1950 · Till We Meet Again as Saburo Tajima
- 1949 · A Woman's Face as