Eiji Okada
Acting
Biography
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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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Notable Works
Prominent titles featuring Eiji Okada
Filmography
Acting (143)
1995
7.0
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Pastas White Man
7.2
1991
5.6
1991
Heat Waveas Masakichi Ono
5.9
8.0
1988
9.0
1985
Spring Bellas Hachiro Ishimoto
7.3
1984
Agi, the Fury of Evilas Omi-no-kami
8.5
1984
1983
Antarcticaas Ozawa Taicho
7.2
1983
Praying Mantisas Taichi Dôjima
5.0
1982
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honeyas Kozo Hisamatsu
2.0
1982
6.3
1981
Crazed Fruitas Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
5.7
1980
Magnitude 7.9as Professor Watanabe
5.8
1979
Dog of Fortuneas Shuhei Agata
5.7
1979
The Stranglingas Yoshio Morikawa
4.8
1978
Blood Type: Blueas Dr. Hyodo
6.1
1978
August Without Emperoras Assistant General Tokunaga
7.3
1978
Take Me Away!as Ryunosuke Tamaru
8.0
1978
The Glacier Foxas Narrator (voice)
7.8
1978
Love and Faithas Ankokuji
6.4
1978
Lost Loveas Professor Kamiyama
6.4
1977
Utamaro's Worldas Tanuma
5.6
1977
7.5
1977
The Alaska Storyas Amaohka
8.0
7.0
1976
1976
8.0
1976
Cobra 2as Kudo
1976
Lullaby of the Earthas Evangelist
6.4
1976
3.0
1976
6.2
1975
1975
I Am a Catas Bunmei
4.0
1974
ESPYas Salabad
5.4
1974
The Yakuzaas Tono
7.1
1974
Scalpelas Kokubo
1974
My Wayas Lawyer
6.0
1973
Lady Snowbloodas Gishirō Tsukamoto
7.5
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demonsas Shogen Wakita
7.2
1973
Zatoichi's Conspiracyas Shinbei
7.0
1973
1972
Red Targetas Mike Tachibana
6.0
1971
Silenceas Inoue Chikugonokami
7.2
6.3
1971
The Earth is Born Againas Mitsuo Iwashita
1971
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Templeas (voice)
1970
This Transient Lifeas Mori
7.4
1970
Records of Bloodshedas Seiichiro Machida
1969
Vixenas Nobuyuki Ishido
6.7
1969
8.0
1969
1968
Secret Informationas Toru Kijima
9.0
10.0
8.0
7.0
1968
Gambler's Farewellas Riichirô Maejima
8.0
1967
10.0
1967
Portrait of Chiekoas Tsubaki
7.5
1967
The Rose Colored Twoas Director Iwamoto
1967
The X from Outer Spaceas Dr. Kato
5.2
8.0
1966
The Face of Anotheras The Boss
7.8
1966
A Sky Full of Tearsas Nagai
6.0
1966
Pretty Devil Yokoas Asai
3.3
1966
Japan's Most Chivalrousas Shuji Onoda
10.0
1965
Samurai Spyas Tatewaki Koriyama
6.4
1965
Sanshiro Sugataas Gennosuke / Tesshin
7.1
1965
Haigo no hitoas Masaaki Izumida
1964
The Scarlet Camelliaas Genjirô Maruume
5.2
1964
My Loveras Emi Terunobu
1964
Assassinationas Lord Matsudaira
7.1
1964
The Scent of Incenseas Nozawa
7.2
1964
Woman in the Dunesas Entomologist Niki Jumpei
8.2
1963
She and Heas Eiichi Ishikawa
7.0
1963
The Ugly Americanas Deong
6.6
1963
Rififi in Tokyoas Danny Riquet
5.9
1961
Restoration Fireas Yamanami Keisuke
7.0
1961
Festival of Swordsmenas Kamio Shume
6.5
6.6
1960
9.0
1960
The Piratesas Shinzo Murakami
7.6
1960
10.0
8.0
1959
Hiroshima Mon Amouras Lui
7.7
5.3
1957
The Eleventh Houras Shimano
7.4
6.8
1957
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiendas Kogoro Akechi
9.0
1957
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yokias Kogoro Akechi
8.0
1956
恐怖の空中殺人as 里見
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Facesas Kogoro Akechi
10.0
1956
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantomas Kogoro Akechi
8.0
1956
1956
Five Paths to Revengeas Jun Mitani
1955
Christ in Bronzeas Hagiwara Yusa
9.0
1955
1955
8.2
1955
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoesas Ensign Asakura
9.0
1954
A Billionaireas Monta
6.8
1954
1954
The End of a Dayas Leutnant Guni Hanata
7.5
1953
Hiroshimaas Kitagawa
7.4
1953
Tower of Liliesas Teacher Tamai
6.8
1952
Vacuum Zoneas Second Lieutenant Okamoto
8.5
1952
8.0
1952
Motheras Shinjiro Hirai
7.0
7.0
1952
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japanas Reporter Saeki
1951
1951
Weeping Dollas Ryuji
1950
5.6
1950
Till We Meet Againas Saburo Tajima
6.7
1949