Eiji Okada
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.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô Maejima
1968
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
as (voice)
1971
Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
The Yakuza
as Tono
1974
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
1952
The Face of Another
as The Boss
1966
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
1967
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1964
Shinran
1960
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
1983
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
1965
Hawk of the North
1959
Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
1977
Rebel Against Glory
1970
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
1973
The Ugly American
as Deong
1963
