Eiji Okada
Acting
Born June 13, 1920 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.…
Known For · 40 titles
Onihei Hankachō
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Yokomizo Seishi Series
Woman in the Dunes
Praying Mantis
The Will to Live
Lady Snowblood
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Weeping Doll
Five Paths to Revenge
Tattooed Temptress
An Edo Magistrate
Spring Bell
The Chop Professor
Crazed Fruit
The Gate of Youth Part 2
The Face of Another
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
The Yamabiko School
The Yakuza
Green Requiem
Oretachi no Tabi
Manhunt
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
Heat Wave
Antarctica
This Transient Life
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Mother
The Ugly American
Gambler's Farewell
Lullaby of the Earth
Secret Information
Festival of Swordsmen
ESPY
The Story of Pure Love
Hawk of the North
August Without Emperor
The Scarlet Camellia
Zatoichi's Conspiracy