Eiji Okada
Acting • Born 1920-06-13 – Died 1995-09-14
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.
Filmography
138 credits
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Movie • 1961
Gambler's Farewell
Movie • 1968
Riichirô Maejima
Lady Snowblood
Movie • 1973
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
Movie • 1971
(voice)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Movie • 1959
Lui
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Movie • 1960
The Yakuza
Movie • 1974
Tono
Mother
Movie • 1952
Shinjiro Hirai
The Face of Another
Movie • 1966
The Boss
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Movie • 1978
The X from Outer Space
Movie • 1967
Dr. Kato
Woman in the Dunes
Movie • 1964
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Shinran
Movie • 1960
Antarctica
Movie • 1983
Ozawa Taicho
Samurai Spy
Movie • 1965
Tatewaki Koriyama
Hawk of the North
Movie • 1959
Utamaro's World
Movie • 1977
Tanuma
Rebel Against Glory
Movie • 1970
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Movie • 1973
Shinbei
The Ugly American
Movie • 1963
Deong
Spring Bell
Movie • 1985
Hachiro Ishimoto
White Beast
Movie • 1950
Assassination
Movie • 1964
Lord Matsudaira
This Transient Life
Movie • 1970
Mori
Records of Bloodshed
Movie • 1970
Seiichiro Machida
Heat Wave
Movie • 1991
Masakichi Ono
I Am a Cat
Movie • 1975
Bunmei
Frozen River
Movie • 1976
She and He
Movie • 1963
Eiichi Ishikawa
Lost Love
Movie • 1978
Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
Movie • 1978
Narrator (voice)
A Billionaire
Movie • 1954
Monta
Showdown in Blood
Movie • 1957
My Way
Movie • 1974
Lawyer
Rififi in Tokyo
Movie • 1963
Danny Riquet
ESPY
Movie • 1974
Salabad
Hiroshima
Movie • 1953
Kitagawa
Christ in Bronze
Movie • 1955
Hagiwara Yusa
The Scent of Incense
Movie • 1964
Nozawa
August Without Emperor
Movie • 1978
Assistant General Tokunaga
Avalanche
Movie • 1956
Sanshiro Sugata
Movie • 1965
Gennosuke / Tesshin
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Movie • 1995
White Man
A Woman's Face
Movie • 1949
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Movie • 1980
Shinran, Part II
Movie • 1960
Blood Type: Blue
Movie • 1978
Hirado Pirates
Movie • 1955
Secret Liaisons
Movie • 1995
Lullaby of the Earth
Movie • 1976
Evangelist
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie • 1977
Love and Faith
Movie • 1978
Ankokuji
Dog of Fortune
Movie • 1979
Shuhei Agata
The Alaska Story
Movie • 1977
Amaohka
The Sands of Kurobe
Movie • 1968
Silence
Movie • 1971
Inoue Chikugonokami
Vixen
Movie • 1969
Nobuyuki Ishido
Here Is a Spring
Movie • 1955
Cobra 2
Movie • 1976
Kudo
Vacuum Zone
Movie • 1952
Rebellion of Japan
Movie • 1967
Tattooed Temptress
Movie • 1968
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1950
Saburo Tajima
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Movie • 1957
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
Movie • 1956
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Movie • 1957
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Movie • 1956
Kogoro Akechi
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Movie • 1971
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Movie • 1955
Ensign Asakura
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Movie • 1980
Tower of Lilies
Movie • 1953
Teacher Tamai
Devil in My Flesh
Movie • 1968
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Movie • 1960
Love in the North
Movie • 1976
The End of a Day
Movie • 1954
Leutnant Guni Hanata
The Strangling
Movie • 1979
Yoshio Morikawa
Secret Information
Movie • 1968
Toru Kijima
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Movie • 1981
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Movie • 1961
Portrait of Chieko
Movie • 1967
Tsubaki
Festival of Swordsmen
Movie • 1961
Kamio Shume
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Movie • 1960
Permanent Blue
Movie • 1976
The Scarlet Camellia
Movie • 1964
Genjirô Maruume
Manhunt
Movie • 1976
Red Target
Movie • 1972
Mike Tachibana
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Movie • 1959
Crazed Fruit
Movie • 1981
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Five Paths to Revenge
Movie • 1956
Jun Mitani
Weeping Doll
Movie • 1951
Ryuji
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Movie • 1973
Shogen Wakita
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Movie • 1961
The Story of Pure Love
Movie • 1957
A Ripple in a Morning
Movie • 1952
Praying Mantis
Movie • 1983
Taichi Dôjima
Hadashi no seishun
Movie • 1975
Traffic Jam
Movie • 1991
The Will to Live
Movie • 1967
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Movie • 1984
Omi-no-kami
The Eleventh Hour
Movie • 1957
Shimano
The Yamabiko School
Movie • 1952
Magnitude 7.9
Movie • 1980
Professor Watanabe
Green Requiem
Movie • 1988
Pretty Devil Yoko
Movie • 1966
Asai
Restoration Fire
Movie • 1961
Yamanami Keisuke
Karate Sanshiro
Movie • 1951
The Pirates
Movie • 1960
Shinzo Murakami
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Movie • 1966
Shuji Onoda
Bullet Wound
Movie • 1969
Shi no dangai
Movie • 1982
The Chop Professor
Movie • 1956
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Movie • 1951
Take Me Away!
Movie • 1978
Ryunosuke Tamaru
At the End of the Clouds
Movie • 1953
Summer of the Lion Kings
Movie • 1991
Violence
Movie • 1952
Fearless Opposition
Movie • 1958
Kyukei no Koya
Movie • 1975
The Killing Game
Movie • 1973
The Earth is Born Again
Movie • 1971
Mitsuo Iwashita
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Movie • 1984
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Movie • 1960
Japanese Humanity and Justice
Movie • 1977
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
Movie • 1961
An Edo Magistrate
Movie • 1961
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
Movie • 1980
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Movie • 1982
Kozo Hisamatsu
Scalpel
Movie • 1974
Kokubo
夕陽の恋人
Movie • 1969
The Young
Movie • 1977
The Rose Colored Two
Movie • 1967
Director Iwamoto
恐怖の空中殺人
Movie • 1956
里見
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
Movie • 1981
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
TV • 1987
Oretachi no Tabi
TV • 1975
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
TV • 1977
Onihei Hankachō
TV • 1989
Yokomizo Seishi Series
TV • 1977