Eiji Okada
Known For
Acting
Born
1920-06-13 in Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Died
1995-09-14
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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Known For
Onihei Hankachō
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Yokomizo Seishi Series
The Face of Another
as The Boss
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Yakuza
as Tono
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
Manhunt
Oretachi no Tabi
Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
August Without Emperor
as Assistant General Tokunaga
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
Till We Meet Again
as Saburo Tajima
ESPY
as Salabad