Eiji Okada

Actor

1920-06-13 – 1995-09-14 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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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.

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• Hiroshima, mon amour (1959) — Lui
• La mujer de la arena (1964) — Entomologist Niki Jumpei
• Lady Snowblood (1973) — Gishirō Tsukamoto
• El rostro ajeno (1966) — The Boss
• Yakuza (1974) — Tono
• El lobo solitario y su cachorro: carro de bebé en la tierra de los demonios (1973) — Shogen Wakita
• Antarctica (1983) — Ozawa Taicho
• El samurái espía (1965) — Tatewaki Koriyama
• X del Espacio Exterior, The X from Outer Space (1967) — Dr. Kato
• Mujo (1970) — Mori
• El asesinato (1964) — Lord Matsudaira
• Silencio (1971) — Inoue Chikugonokami
• La conspiración de Zatoichi (1973) — Shinbei
• Su excelencia el Embajador (1963) — Deong
• ひろしま (1953) — Kitagawa
• 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ (1976)
• Madre (1952) — Shinjiro Hirai
• 狂った果実 (1981) — Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
• 大地の子守歌 (1976) — Evangelist
• 陽炎 (1991) — Masakichi Ono
• Rififi en Tokyo (1963) — Danny Riquet
• La bestia blanca (1950)
• Ella y él (1963) — Eiichi Ishikawa
• 香華 (1964) — Nozawa