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