Eiji Okada
Acting
Born June 13, 1920, Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.
Filmography
- 1995Secret Liaisons
- 1995The Stairway to the Distant Past — White Man
- 1991Heat Wave — Masakichi Ono
- 1991Summer of the Lion Kings
- 1991Traffic Jam
- Onihei Hankachō
- 1988Green Requiem
- Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
- 1985Spring Bell — Hachiro Ishimoto
- 1984Agi, the Fury of Evil — Omi-no-kami
- 1984不倫 この愛が裁けますか
- 1983Antarctica — Ozawa Taicho
- 1983Praying Mantis — Taichi Dôjima
- 1982Cliff of Death
- 1982Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey — Kozo Hisamatsu
- 1981Crazed Fruit — Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- 1981Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
- 1981Kamikaze, the Adventurer
- 1980A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
- 1980Magnitude 7.9 — Professor Watanabe
- 1980The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
- 1980Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
- 1979Dog of Fortune — Shuhei Agata
- 1979The Strangling — Yoshio Morikawa
- 1978August Without Emperor — Assistant General Tokunaga
- 1978Blood Type: Blue — Dr. Hyodo
- 1978Lost Love — Professor Kamiyama
- 1978Love and Faith — Ankokuji
- 1978Take Me Away! — Ryunosuke Tamaru
- 1978The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
- 1978The Glacier Fox — Narrator (voice)
- Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
- 1977Japanese Humanity and Justice
- 1977The Alaska Story — Amaohka
- 1977The Gate of Youth Part 2
- 1977The Young
- 1977Utamaro's World — Tanuma
- Yokomizo Seishi Series
- 1976Cobra 2 — Kudo
- 1976Frozen River
- 1976Love in the North
- 1976Lullaby of the Earth — Evangelist
- 1976Manhunt
- 1976Permanent Blue
- 1976Stars and Storms
- 1975Hadashi no seishun
- 1975I Am a Cat — Bunmei
- 1975Kyukei no Koya
- Oretachi no Tabi
- なつかしき海の歌
- 1974ESPY — Salabad
- 1974My Way — Lawyer
- 1974Scalpel — Kokubo
- 1974The Yakuza — Tono
- 1973Lady Snowblood — Gishirō Tsukamoto
- 1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons — Shogen Wakita
- 1973The Killing Game
- 1973Zatoichi's Conspiracy — Shinbei
- 1972Red Target — Mike Tachibana
- 1971Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple — (voice)
- 1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- 1971Silence — Inoue Chikugonokami
- 1971The Earth is Born Again — Mitsuo Iwashita
- 1970Rebel Against Glory
- 1970Records of Bloodshed — Seiichiro Machida
- 1970This Transient Life — Mori
- 1969Bullet Wound
- 1969Vixen — Nobuyuki Ishido
- 1969夕陽の恋人
- 1968Devil in My Flesh
- 1968Gambler's Farewell — Riichirô Maejima
- 1968Secret Information — Toru Kijima
- 1968Tattooed Temptress
- 1968The Sands of Kurobe
- 1967Portrait of Chieko — Tsubaki
- 1967Rebellion of Japan
- 1967The Rose Colored Two — Director Iwamoto
- 1967The Will to Live
- 1967The X from Outer Space — Dr. Kato
- 1966A Sky Full of Tears — Nagai
- 1966Japan's Most Chivalrous — Shuji Onoda
- 1966Pretty Devil Yoko — Asai
- 1966The Face of Another — The Boss
- 1965Haigo no hito — Masaaki Izumida
- 1965Samurai Spy — Tatewaki Koriyama
- 1965Sanshiro Sugata — Gennosuke / Tesshin
- 1964Assassination — Lord Matsudaira
- 1964My Lover — Emi Terunobu
- 1964The Scarlet Camellia — Genjirô Maruume
- 1964The Scent of Incense — Nozawa
- 1964Woman in the Dunes — Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- 1963Rififi in Tokyo — Danny Riquet
- 1963She and He — Eiichi Ishikawa
- 1963The Ugly American — Deong
- 196120 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
- 1961A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
- 1961An Edo Magistrate
- 1961Festival of Swordsmen — Kamio Shume
- 1961Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
- 1961Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
- 1961Restoration Fire — Yamanami Keisuke
- 1960Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
- 1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
- 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
- 1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
- 1960Shinran
- 1960Shinran, Part II
- 1960The Pirates — Shinzo Murakami
- 1959Hawk of the North
- 1959Hiroshima Mon Amour — Lui
- 1959Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
- 1958Fearless Opposition
- 1957Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki — Kogoro Akechi
- 1957Showdown in Blood
- 1957The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend — Kogoro Akechi
- 1957The Eleventh Hour — Shimano
- 1957The Story of Pure Love
- 1956Avalanche
- 1956Five Paths to Revenge — Jun Mitani
- 1956The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom — Kogoro Akechi
- 1956The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces — Kogoro Akechi
- 1956The Chop Professor
- 1956恐怖の空中殺人 — 里見
- 1955Christ in Bronze — Hagiwara Yusa
- 1955Here Is a Spring
- 1955Hirado Pirates
- 1955The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes — Ensign Asakura
- 1954A Billionaire — Monta
- 1954Hana to hatō
- 1954The End of a Day — Leutnant Guni Hanata
- 1953At the End of the Clouds
- 1953Hiroshima — Kitagawa
- 1953Tower of Lilies — Teacher Tamai
- 1952A Ripple in a Morning
- 1952August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan — Reporter Saeki
- 1952Mother — Shinjiro Hirai
- 1952The Yamabiko School
- 1952Vacuum Zone — Second Lieutenant Okamoto
- 1952Violence
- 1951Karate Sanshiro
- 1951The Love Letter Trial
- 1951The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
- 1951Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
- 1951Weeping Doll — Ryuji
- 1950Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
- 1950Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
- 1950Till We Meet Again — Saburo Tajima
- 1950White Beast
- 1949A Woman's Face