Acting
Eiji Okada
JA, EN, FR cinema · 144 credits
Born
13 June 1920
Died
14 September 1995 (aged 75)
Birthplace
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Also known as Okada Eiji · Эйдзи Окада
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
Filmography
The Stairway to the Distant Past
as White Man
Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Agi, the Fury of Evil
as Omi-no-kami
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
as Taichi Dôjima
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
as Kozo Hisamatsu
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Magnitude 7.9
as Professor Watanabe
Dog of Fortune
as Shuhei Agata
The Strangling
as Yoshio Morikawa
Lost Love
as Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
as Narrator (voice)
August Without Emperor
as Assistant General Tokunaga
Blood Type: Blue
as Dr. Hyodo
Love and Faith
as Ankokuji
Take Me Away!
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
The Alaska Story
as Amaohka
Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
Cobra 2
as Kudo
Manhunt
Actor
I Am a Cat
as Bunmei
The Yakuza
as Tono
My Way
as Lawyer
ESPY
as Salabad
Scalpel
as Kokubo
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
Red Target
as Mike Tachibana
Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
The Earth is Born Again
as Mitsuo Iwashita
Records of Bloodshed
as Seiichiro Machida
Vixen
as Nobuyuki Ishido
Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô Maejima
Secret Information
as Toru Kijima
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
Portrait of Chieko
as Tsubaki
The Rose Colored Two
as Director Iwamoto
The Face of Another
as The Boss
Japan's Most Chivalrous
as Shuji Onoda
A Sky Full of Tears
as Nagai
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
Sanshiro Sugata
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
Haigo no hito
as Masaaki Izumida
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
The Scent of Incense
as Nozawa
The Scarlet Camellia
as Genjirô Maruume
My Lover
as Emi Terunobu
The Ugly American
as Deong
She and He
as Eiichi Ishikawa
Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny Riquet
Festival of Swordsmen
as Kamio Shume
Restoration Fire
as Yamanami Keisuke
Shinran
Actor
The Pirates
as Shinzo Murakami
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
as Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
as Kogoro Akechi
The Eleventh Hour
as Shimano
少年探偵団 第二部 二十面相の悪魔
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
as Kogoro Akechi
Five Paths to Revenge
as Jun Mitani
Christ in Bronze
as Hagiwara Yusa
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
as Ensign Asakura
A Billionaire
as Monta
The End of a Day
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
Tower of Lilies
as Teacher Tamai
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
Vacuum Zone
as Second Lieutenant Okamoto
Violence
Actor
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
as Reporter Saeki
Weeping Doll
as Ryuji
Till We Meet Again
as Saburo Tajima
