Eiji Okada
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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Filmography
Secret Liaisons
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
as White Man
Traffic Jam
1991
Heat Wave
1991
as Masakichi Ono
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
Green Requiem
1988
Spring Bell
1985
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984
as Omi-no-kami
- No poster
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
Antarctica
1983
as Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
1983
as Taichi Dôjima
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1982
as Kozo Hisamatsu
Cliff of Death
1982
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
- No poster
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
1981
Crazed Fruit
1981
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- No poster
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
Magnitude 7.9
1980
as Professor Watanabe
- No poster
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
1980
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
Dog of Fortune
1979
as Shuhei Agata
The Strangling
1979
as Yoshio Morikawa
Blood Type: Blue
1978
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978