Eiji Okada
Acting
Born: 1920-06-13 in 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. 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
Onihei Hankachō
The Yakuza
Tono
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
Yokomizo Seishi Series
Vacuum Zone
Second Lieutenant Okamoto
Portrait of Chieko
Tsubaki
Pretty Devil Yoko
Asai
The Face of Another
The Boss
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
Hiroshima
Kitagawa
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
The Will to Live
Vixen
Nobuyuki Ishido
White Beast
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Here Is a Spring
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
Manhunt
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
The Sands of Kurobe
The Yamabiko School
The End of a Day
Leutnant Guni Hanata
An Edo Magistrate
The Ugly American
Deong
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
Reporter Saeki
The Love Letter Trial
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Tattooed Temptress
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
Christ in Bronze
Hagiwara Yusa
Weeping Doll
Ryuji