Eiji Okada
Acting

Eiji Okada

Born 13 June 1920 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan · Died 14 September 1995

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.

Known for

Hiroshima Mon Amour
Woman in the Dunes
Lady Snowblood
The Face of Another
The Yakuza
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Antarctica
Samurai Spy
The X from Outer Space
This Transient Life
Assassination
Silence
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Secret Liaisons
Heat Wave
Traffic Jam
Summer of the Lion Kings
Green Requiem
Spring Bell
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Antarctica
Praying Mantis
Cliff of Death
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Crazed Fruit
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Magnitude 7.9
Dog of Fortune
The Strangling
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Lost Love
The Glacier Fox
August Without Emperor
Blood Type: Blue
Love and Faith
Take Me Away!
Utamaro's World
The Gate of Youth Part 2
The Alaska Story
Japanese Humanity and Justice
The Young
Frozen River
Lullaby of the Earth
Cobra 2
Love in the North
Permanent Blue
Manhunt
Stars and Storms
I Am a Cat
Hadashi no seishun
Kyukei no Koya
The Yakuza
My Way
ESPY
Scalpel
Lady Snowblood
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
The Killing Game
Red Target
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
Silence
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The Earth is Born Again
Rebel Against Glory
This Transient Life
Records of Bloodshed
Vixen
Bullet Wound
夕陽の恋人
Gambler's Farewell
The Sands of Kurobe
Devil in My Flesh
Secret Information
The X from Outer Space
Rebellion of Japan
Portrait of Chieko
The Will to Live
The Rose Colored Two
The Face of Another
Pretty Devil Yoko
Japan's Most Chivalrous
A Sky Full of Tears
Samurai Spy
Sanshiro Sugata
Haigo no hito
Woman in the Dunes
Assassination
The Scent of Incense
The Scarlet Camellia
My Lover
The Ugly American
She and He
Rififi in Tokyo
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Festival of Swordsmen
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Restoration Fire
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
An Edo Magistrate
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Shinran
Shinran, Part II
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
The Pirates
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Hawk of the North
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Fearless Opposition
The Nameless Man
Showdown in Blood
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
The Story of Pure Love
The Eleventh Hour
Avalanche
Five Paths to Revenge
The Chop Professor
恐怖の空中殺人
Christ in Bronze
Hirado Pirates
Here Is a Spring
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
A Billionaire
The End of a Day
Hana to hatō
Hiroshima
Tower of Lilies
At the End of the Clouds
Mother
Vacuum Zone
A Ripple in a Morning
The Yamabiko School
Violence
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
Weeping Doll
Karate Sanshiro
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
The Love Letter Trial
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
White Beast
Till We Meet Again
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
A Woman's Face
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