Eiji Okada
Known for ActingBorn 1920-06-13 — died 1995-09-14Choshi, 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.
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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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Known for
Lady Snowblood
1973 · as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Woman in the Dunes
1964 · as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · as Lui
Crazed Fruit
1981 · as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Face of Another
1966 · as The Boss
The Yakuza
1974 · as Tono
Antarctica
1983 · as Ozawa Taicho
Manhunt
1976
Spring Bell
1985 · as Hachiro Ishimoto
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973 · as Shogen Wakita
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955 · as Ensign Asakura
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
The Ugly American
1963 · as Deong
ESPY
1974 · as Salabad
Lullaby of the Earth
1976 · as Evangelist
Mother
1952 · as Shinjiro Hirai
Heat Wave
1991 · as Masakichi Ono