Eiji Okada
144 movies · 6 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 13, 1920
- Died
- Sep 14, 1995 (age 75)
- Place of birth
- Choshi, Chiba, Japan
- Also known as
- Okada Eiji · Эйдзи Окада
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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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Profiles IMDb
Known for
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★ 7.7 Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · Film
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★ 8.2 Woman in the Dunes
1964 · Film
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★ 7.5 Lady Snowblood
1973 · Film
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★ 7.8 The Face of Another
1966 · Film
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★ 7.1 The Yakuza
1974 · Film
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★ 7.2 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973 · Film
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★ 7.2 Antarctica
1983 · Film
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★ 6.4 Samurai Spy
1965 · Film
Eiji Okada: movies and TV shows
Acting (150)
- 1995
- 1995 The Stairway to the Distant Past
as White Man
- 1991
- 1991 Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
- 1991
- 1989
- 1988
- 1987
- 1985 Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
- 1984 Agi, the Fury of Evil
as Omi-no-kami
- 1984
- 1983 Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
- 1983 Praying Mantis
as Taichi Dôjima
- 1982 Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
as Kozo Hisamatsu
- 1982
- 1981
- 1981
- 1981 Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- 1980
- 1980 Magnitude 7.9
as Professor Watanabe
- 1980
- 1980
- 1979 Dog of Fortune
as Shuhei Agata
- 1979 The Strangling
as Yoshio Morikawa
- 1978 Blood Type: Blue
as Dr. Hyodo
- 1978
- 1978 August Without Emperor
as Assistant General Tokunaga
- 1978 Take Me Away!
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
- 1978 The Glacier Fox
as Narrator (voice)
- 1978 Love and Faith
as Ankokuji
- 1978 Lost Love
as Professor Kamiyama
- 1977 Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977
- 1977 The Alaska Story
as Amaohka
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976
- 1976 Cobra 2
as Kudo
- 1976 Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
- 1976
- 1976
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975
- 1975 I Am a Cat
as Bunmei
- 1975
- 1974 ESPY
as Salabad
- 1974 The Yakuza
as Tono
- 1974 Scalpel
as Kokubo
- 1974 My Way
as Lawyer
- 1973 Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- 1973 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
- 1973 Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
- 1973
- 1972 Red Target
as Mike Tachibana
- 1971 Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
- 1971
- 1971 The Earth is Born Again
as Mitsuo Iwashita
- 1971 Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
as (voice)
- 1970 This Transient Life
as Mori
- 1970 Records of Bloodshed
as Seiichiro Machida
- 1970
- 1969 Vixen
as Nobuyuki Ishido
- 1969
- 1969
- 1968 Secret Information
as Toru Kijima
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968
- 1968 Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô Maejima
- 1967
- 1967 Portrait of Chieko
as Tsubaki
- 1967 The Rose Colored Two
as Director Iwamoto
- 1967 The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
- 1967
- 1966 The Face of Another
as The Boss
- 1966 A Sky Full of Tears
as Nagai
- 1966 Pretty Devil Yoko
as Asai
- 1966 Japan's Most Chivalrous
as Shuji Onoda
- 1965 Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
- 1965 Sanshiro Sugata
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
- 1965 Haigo no hito
as Masaaki Izumida
- 1964 The Scarlet Camellia
as Genjirô Maruume
- 1964 My Lover
as Emi Terunobu
- 1964 Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
- 1964 The Scent of Incense
as Nozawa
- 1964 Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- 1963 She and He
as Eiichi Ishikawa
- 1963 The Ugly American
as Deong
- 1963 Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny Riquet
- 1961 Restoration Fire
as Yamanami Keisuke
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961
- 1961 Festival of Swordsmen
as Kamio Shume
- 1961
- 1961
- 1960
- 1960 The Pirates
as Shinzo Murakami
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1960
- 1959 Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
- 1959
- 1959
- 1958
- 1958
- 1957 The Eleventh Hour
as Shimano
- 1957
- 1957
- 1957 The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
as Kogoro Akechi
- 1957 Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956 恐怖の空中殺人
as 里見
- 1956 The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956 The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
as Kogoro Akechi
- 1956
- 1956
- 1956 Five Paths to Revenge
as Jun Mitani
- 1955 Christ in Bronze
as Hagiwara Yusa
- 1955
- 1955
- 1955 The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
as Ensign Asakura
- 1954 A Billionaire
as Monta
- 1954
- 1954 The End of a Day
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
- 1953 Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
- 1953
- 1953 Tower of Lilies
as Teacher Tamai
- 1952 Vacuum Zone
as Second Lieutenant Okamoto
- 1952
- 1952 Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
- 1952
- 1952
- 1952 August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
as Reporter Saeki
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951
- 1951 Weeping Doll
as Ryuji
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950
- 1950 Till We Meet Again
as Saburo Tajima
- 1949