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Eiji Okada

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Eiji Okada

Born June 13, 1920 in Choshi, Chiba, JapanDied September 14, 1995141 films

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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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Woman in the Dunes posterFirst watchWoman in the Dunes19648.2as Entomologist Niki JumpeiA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life…View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Hiroshima Mon Amour poster7.7Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Lady Snowblood poster7.5Lady Snowblood1973The Face of Another poster7.8The Face of Another1966The Yakuza poster7.1The Yakuza1974Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons poster7.2Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons1973Antarctica poster7.2Antarctica1983Samurai Spy poster6.4Samurai Spy1965The X from Outer Space poster5.2The X from Outer Space1967

Filmography

141 films as actor
  1. 1995Secret Liaisons
  2. 1995The Stairway to the Distant PastWhite Man
  3. 1991Traffic Jam
  4. 1991Heat WaveMasakichi Ono
  5. 1991Summer of the Lion Kings
  6. 1988Green Requiem
  7. 1985Spring BellHachiro Ishimoto
  8. 1984Agi, the Fury of EvilOmi-no-kami
  9. 1984不倫　この愛が裁けますか
  10. 1983AntarcticaOzawa Taicho
  11. 1983Praying MantisTaichi Dôjima
  12. 1982Lady on 6th Street: Taste of HoneyKozo Hisamatsu
  13. 1982Cliff of Death
  14. 1981Kamikaze, the Adventurer
  15. 1981Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
  16. 1981Crazed FruitTôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
  17. 1980The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
  18. 1980Magnitude 7.9Professor Watanabe
  19. 1980A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
  20. 1980Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
  21. 1979Dog of FortuneShuhei Agata
  22. 1979The StranglingYoshio Morikawa
  23. 1978Blood Type: BlueDr. Hyodo
  24. 1978The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
  25. 1978August Without EmperorAssistant General Tokunaga
  26. 1978Take Me Away!Ryunosuke Tamaru
  27. 1978Love and FaithAnkokuji
  28. 1978Lost LoveProfessor Kamiyama
  29. 1977Utamaro's WorldTanuma
  30. 1977Japanese Humanity and Justice
  31. 1977The Young
  32. 1977The Gate of Youth Part 2
  33. 1977The Alaska StoryAmaohka
  34. 1976Love in the North
  35. 1976Stars and Storms
  36. 1976Permanent Blue
  37. 1976Cobra 2Kudo
  38. 1976Lullaby of the EarthEvangelist
  39. 1976Frozen River
  40. 1976Manhunt
  41. 1975Kyukei no Koya
  42. 1975I Am a CatBunmei
  43. 1975Hadashi no seishun
  44. 1974ESPYSalabad
  45. 1974The YakuzaTono
  46. 1974ScalpelKokubo
  47. 1974My WayLawyer
  48. 1973Lady SnowbloodGishirō Tsukamoto
  49. 1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of DemonsShogen Wakita
  50. 1973Zatoichi's ConspiracyShinbei
  51. 1973The Killing Game
  52. 1972Red TargetMike Tachibana
  53. 1971SilenceInoue Chikugonokami
  54. 1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness
  55. 1971The Earth is Born AgainMitsuo Iwashita
  56. 1970This Transient LifeMori
  57. 1970Records of BloodshedSeiichiro Machida
  58. 1970Rebel Against Glory
  59. 1969VixenNobuyuki Ishido
  60. 1969Bullet Wound
  61. 1969夕陽の恋人
  62. 1968Secret InformationToru Kijima
  63. 1968Devil in My Flesh
  64. 1968Tattooed Temptress
  65. 1968The Sands of Kurobe
  66. 1968Gambler's FarewellRiichirô Maejima
  67. 1967The Will to Live
  68. 1967Portrait of ChiekoTsubaki
  69. 1967The Rose Colored TwoDirector Iwamoto
  70. 1967The X from Outer SpaceDr. Kato
  71. 1967Rebellion of Japan
  72. 1966The Face of AnotherThe Boss
  73. 1966A Sky Full of TearsNagai
  74. 1966Pretty Devil YokoAsai
  75. 1966Japan's Most ChivalrousShuji Onoda
  76. 1965Samurai SpyTatewaki Koriyama
  77. 1965Sanshiro SugataGennosuke / Tesshin
  78. 1965Haigo no hitoMasaaki Izumida
  79. 1964The Scarlet CamelliaGenjirô Maruume
  80. 1964My LoverEmi Terunobu
  81. 1964AssassinationLord Matsudaira
  82. 1964The Scent of IncenseNozawa
  83. 1964Woman in the DunesEntomologist Niki Jumpei
  84. 1963She and HeEiichi Ishikawa
  85. 1963The Ugly AmericanDeong
  86. 1963Rififi in TokyoDanny Riquet
  87. 1961Restoration FireYamanami Keisuke
  88. 1961Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
  89. 196120 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
  90. 1961A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
  91. 1961Festival of SwordsmenKamio Shume
  92. 1961An Edo Magistrate
  93. 1961Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
  94. 1960Shinran, Part II
  95. 1960The PiratesShinzo Murakami
  96. 1960Shinran
  97. 1960Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
  98. 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
  99. 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
  100. 1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
  101. 1959Hiroshima Mon AmourLui
  102. 1959Hawk of the North
  103. 1959Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
  104. 1958Fearless Opposition
  105. 1957The Eleventh HourShimano
  106. 1957The Story of Pure Love
  107. 1957Showdown in Blood
  108. 1957The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron FiendKogoro Akechi
  109. 1957Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no YokiKogoro Akechi
  110. 1956恐怖の空中殺人里見
  111. 1956The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty FacesKogoro Akechi
  112. 1956The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor PhantomKogoro Akechi
  113. 1956The Chop Professor
  114. 1956Avalanche
  115. 1956Five Paths to RevengeJun Mitani
  116. 1955Christ in BronzeHagiwara Yusa
  117. 1955Hirado Pirates
  118. 1955Here Is a Spring
  119. 1955The Sacrifice of the Human TorpedoesEnsign Asakura
  120. 1954A BillionaireMonta