Eiji Okada
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
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Onihei Hankachō
Yokomizo Seishi Series
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Woman in the Dunes
Oretachi no Tabi
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The Yakuza
All Movies (136)
- Secret Liaisons1995
- The Stairway to the Distant Past1995 · as White Man
- Traffic Jam1991
- Heat Wave1991 · as Masakichi Ono
- Summer of the Lion Kings1991
- Green Requiem1988
- Spring Bell1985 · as Hachiro Ishimoto
- Agi, the Fury of Evil1984 · as Omi-no-kami
- 不倫 この愛が裁けますか1984
- Antarctica1983 · as Ozawa Taicho
- Praying Mantis1983 · as Taichi Dôjima
- Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey1982 · as Kozo Hisamatsu
- Cliff of Death1982
- Kamikaze, the Adventurer1981
- Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer1981
- Crazed Fruit1981 · as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail1980
- Magnitude 7.91980 · as Professor Watanabe
- A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead1980
- Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.11980
- Dog of Fortune1979 · as Shuhei Agata
- The Strangling1979 · as Yoshio Morikawa
- Blood Type: Blue1978
- The Beauty of the Black Narcissus1978
- August Without Emperor1978 · as Assistant General Tokunaga
- Take Me Away!1978 · as Ryunosuke Tamaru
- The Glacier Fox1978 · as Narrator (voice)
- Love and Faith1978 · as Ankokuji
- Lost Love1978 · as Professor Kamiyama
- Utamaro's World1977 · as Tanuma
- Japanese Humanity and Justice1977
- The Young1977
- The Gate of Youth Part 21977
- The Alaska Story1977 · as Amaohka
- Love in the North1976
- Stars and Storms1976
- Permanent Blue1976
- Cobra 21976 · as Kudo
- Lullaby of the Earth1976 · as Evangelist
- Frozen River1976
- Manhunt1976
- Kyukei no Koya1975
- I Am a Cat1975 · as Bunmei
- Hadashi no seishun1975
- ESPY1974 · as Salabad
- The Yakuza1974 · as Tono
- Scalpel1974 · as Kokubo
- My Way1974 · as Lawyer
- Lady Snowblood1973 · as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons1973 · as Shogen Wakita
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy1973 · as Shinbei
- The Killing Game1973
- Red Target1972 · as Mike Tachibana
- Silence1971 · as Inoue Chikugonokami
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness1971
- The Earth is Born Again1971 · as Mitsuo Iwashita
- Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple1971 · as (voice)
- This Transient Life1970 · as Mori
- Records of Bloodshed1970 · as Seiichiro Machida
- Rebel Against Glory1970
- Vixen1969 · as Nobuyuki Ishido
- Bullet Wound1969
- 夕陽の恋人1969
- Secret Information1968 · as Toru Kijima
- Devil in My Flesh1968
- Tattooed Temptress1968
- The Sands of Kurobe1968
- Gambler's Farewell1968 · as Riichirô Maejima
- The Will to Live1967
- Portrait of Chieko1967 · as Tsubaki
- The Rose Colored Two1967 · as Director Iwamoto
- The X from Outer Space1967 · as Dr. Kato
- Rebellion of Japan1967
- The Face of Another1966 · as The Boss
- Pretty Devil Yoko1966 · as Asai
- Japan's Most Chivalrous1966 · as Shuji Onoda
- Samurai Spy1965 · as Tatewaki Koriyama
- Sanshiro Sugata1965 · as Gennosuke / Tesshin
- Haigo no hito1965 · as Masaaki Izumida
- The Scarlet Camellia1964 · as Genjirô Maruume
- Assassination1964 · as Lord Matsudaira
- The Scent of Incense1964 · as Nozawa
- Woman in the Dunes1964 · as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- She and He1963 · as Eiichi Ishikawa
- The Ugly American1963 · as Deong
- Rififi in Tokyo1963 · as Danny Riquet
- Restoration Fire1961 · as Yamanami Keisuke
- Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku1961
- 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 21961
- A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji1961
- Festival of Swordsmen1961 · as Kamio Shume
- An Edo Magistrate1961
- Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen1961
- Shinran, Part II1960
- The Pirates1960 · as Shinzo Murakami
- Shinran1960
- Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy1960
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 41960
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 31960
- Return of the One-Armed Swordsman1960
- Hiroshima Mon Amour1959 · as Lui
- Hawk of the North1959
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 21959
- Fearless Opposition1958
- The Eleventh Hour1957 · as Shimano
- The Story of Pure Love1957
- Showdown in Blood1957
- The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend1957 · as Kogoro Akechi
- Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki1957 · as Kogoro Akechi
- 恐怖の空中殺人1956 · as 里見
- The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces1956 · as Kogoro Akechi
- The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom1956 · as Kogoro Akechi
- The Chop Professor1956
- Avalanche1956
- Five Paths to Revenge1956 · as Jun Mitani
- Christ in Bronze1955 · as Hagiwara Yusa
- Hirado Pirates1955
- Here Is a Spring1955
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes1955 · as Ensign Asakura
- A Billionaire1954 · as Monta
- The End of a Day1954 · as Leutnant Guni Hanata
- Hiroshima1953 · as Kitagawa
- At the End of the Clouds1953
- Tower of Lilies1953 · as Teacher Tamai
- Vacuum Zone1952
- Violence1952
- Mother1952 · as Shinjiro Hirai
- A Ripple in a Morning1952
- The Yamabiko School1952
- August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan1952 · as Reporter Saeki
- Karate Sanshiro1951
- The Stormy Era of Twenty Years1951
- Weeping Doll1951 · as Ryuji
- White Beast1950
- Till We Meet Again1950 · as Saburo Tajima
- A Woman's Face1949