Eiji Okada
Actor
Biography
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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.
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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Filmography
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei 1964
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto 1973
The Face of Another
as The Boss 1966
The Yakuza
as Tono 1974
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita 1973
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho 1983
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato 1967
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama 1965
This Transient Life
as Mori 1970
Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami 1971
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira 1964
The Ugly American
as Deong 1963
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei 1973
Hiroshima
as Kitagawa 1953
Manhunt
1976
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai 1952