• BIRTH 13/06/1920
  • DEATH 14/09/1995
  • Country Japan
  • MOVIES 27

Eiji Okada

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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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Eiji Okada

Movies (27)

Hiroshima mon amour
Hiroshima mon amour
Lui
1959
修羅雪姫
修羅雪姫
Gishirō Tsukamoto
1974
沈黙 SILENCE
沈黙 SILENCE
Inoue Chikugonokami
2019
The Yakuza
The Yakuza
Tono
1975
砂の女
砂の女
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1964
博徒解散式
博徒解散式
Riichirô Maejima
1968
女体
女体
Nobuyuki Ishido
1969
Rififi à Tokyo
Rififi à Tokyo
Danny Riquet
1963
ひろしま
ひろしま
Kitagawa
1955
お吟さま
お吟さま
Ankokuji
1978
姿三四郎
姿三四郎
Gennosuke / Tesshin
1965
他人の顔
他人の顔
The Boss
1967
The Ugly American
The Ugly American
Deong
1963
無常
無常
Mori
1971
億万長者
億万長者
Monta
1954
地震列島
地震列島
Professor Watanabe
1980
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
1976
弾痕
弾痕
1969
新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り
新座頭市物語・笠間の血祭り
Shinbei
1973
ここに泉あり
ここに泉あり
1955
暗殺
暗殺
Lord Matsudaira
1964
歌麿 夢と知りせば
歌麿 夢と知りせば
Tanuma
1977
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
Dr. Kato
1968
薔薇の標的
薔薇の標的
Mike Tachibana
1972
南極物語
南極物語
Ozawa Taicho
1985
アギ・鬼神の怒り
アギ・鬼神の怒り
Omi-no-kami
1984
原子力戦争
原子力戦争
Professor Kamiyama
1978