Eiji Okada
Acting
Born: June 13, 1920 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Died: September 14, 1995 (aged 75)
Highest Rated
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
Woman in the Dunes
1964
Lady Snowblood
1973
The Face of Another
1966
The Yakuza
1974
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
Antarctica
1983
Samurai Spy
1965
The X from Outer Space
1967
This Transient Life
1970
Assassination
1964
Silence
1971
Photos (2)
Movies (135)
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
The Yakuza
Tono
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Face of Another
The Boss
Manhunt
1976
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Ugly American
Deong
Silence
Inoue Chikugonokami
Vixen
Nobuyuki Ishido
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Lullaby of the Earth
Evangelist
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
An Edo Magistrate
1961
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Shinbei
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
ESPY
Salabad
Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
The Stairway to the Distant Past
White Man
Rififi in Tokyo
Danny Riquet
Five Paths to Revenge
Jun Mitani
Blood Type: Blue
1978
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
The Will to Live
1967
Green Requiem
1988
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
The Chop Professor
1956
The Scent of Incense
Nozawa
The Scarlet Camellia
Genjirô Maruume
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
The Yamabiko School
1952
Frozen River
1976
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
White Beast
1950
This Transient Life
Mori
Take Me Away!
Ryunosuke Tamaru
Weeping Doll
Ryuji
Tower of Lilies
Teacher Tamai
Vacuum Zone
Second Lieutenant Okamoto
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
Christ in Bronze
Hagiwara Yusa
Hiroshima
Kitagawa
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
The Strangling
Yoshio Morikawa
Cobra 2
Kudo
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Ensign Asakura
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
Till We Meet Again
Saburo Tajima
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
Shinran
1960
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
Pretty Devil Yoko
Asai
Sanshiro Sugata
Gennosuke / Tesshin
The Love Letter Trial
1951
Permanent Blue
1976
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Restoration Fire
Yamanami Keisuke
Traffic Jam
1991
Here Is a Spring
1955
My Way
Lawyer
恐怖の空中殺人
里見
At the End of the Clouds
1953
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
Bullet Wound
1969
Kyukei no Koya
1975
The Pirates
Shinzo Murakami
August Without Emperor
Assistant General Tokunaga
The Eleventh Hour
Shimano
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
The End of a Day
Leutnant Guni Hanata
Lost Love
Professor Kamiyama
A Billionaire
Monta
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
Magnitude 7.9
Professor Watanabe
Rebellion of Japan
1967
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
The Killing Game
1973
Love in the North
1976
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
Gambler's Farewell
Riichirô Maejima
Hawk of the North
1959
Avalanche
1956
Secret Liaisons
1995
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
Love and Faith
Ankokuji
Red Target
Mike Tachibana
The Earth is Born Again
Mitsuo Iwashita
Festival of Swordsmen
Kamio Shume
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
Records of Bloodshed
Seiichiro Machida
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Shuji Onoda
Stars and Storms
1976
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Omi-no-kami
A Sky Full of Tears
Nagai
Cliff of Death
1982
Shinran, Part II
1960
Secret Information
Toru Kijima
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
Hirado Pirates
1955
She and He
Eiichi Ishikawa
Haigo no hito
Masaaki Izumida
Hadashi no seishun
1975
Rebel Against Glory
1970
Fearless Opposition
1958
夕陽の恋人
1969
Hana to hatō
1954
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Kogoro Akechi
The Young
1977
My Lover
Emi Terunobu
Portrait of Chieko
Tsubaki
A Woman's Face
1949
The Alaska Story
Amaohka
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Kozo Hisamatsu
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
Reporter Saeki
Karate Sanshiro
1951
Scalpel
Kokubo
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Kogoro Akechi
Violence
1952
Showdown in Blood
1957
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(voice)
Devil in My Flesh
1968
The Rose Colored Two
Director Iwamoto
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
