Eiji Okada
Actor
- Born
- June 13, 1920 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan
- Died
- September 14, 1995 (age 75)
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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.
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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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Known for
Hiroshima Mon Amour
June 10, 1959
Woman in the Dunes
February 15, 1964
Lady Snowblood
December 1, 1973
The Face of Another
July 15, 1966
The Yakuza
December 21, 1974
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
August 11, 1973
Antarctica
July 23, 1983
Samurai Spy
July 10, 1965
The X from Outer Space
March 25, 1967
This Transient Life
August 8, 1970
Assassination
July 4, 1964
Silence
November 13, 1971
Acting144
- 1995Secret Liaisons
- 1995The Stairway to the Distant Past as White Man
- 1991Traffic Jam
- 1991Heat Wave as Masakichi Ono
- 1991Summer of the Lion Kings
- 1988Green Requiem
- 1985Spring Bell as Hachiro Ishimoto
- 1984Agi, the Fury of Evil as Omi-no-kami
- 1984不倫 この愛が裁けますか
- 1983Antarctica as Ozawa Taicho
- 1983Praying Mantis