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Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Actor · 1920–1995 · Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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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.​

Acted in 140

1980s

  1. 1989
  2. 1988

    Green Requiem

    Movie

  3. 1987

    Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

    TV

  4. 1985
  5. 1984

    Agi, the Fury of Evil

    Omi-no-kami

  6. 1983

    Antarctica

    Ozawa Taicho

  7. Praying Mantis

    Taichi Dôjima

  8. 1982

    Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey

    Kozo Hisamatsu

  9. Cliff of Death

    Movie

  10. 1981

    Kamikaze, the Adventurer

    Movie

  11. 1980

    Magnitude 7.9

    Professor Watanabe

  12. Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

    Movie

1970s

  1. 1979
  2. The Strangling

    Yoshio Morikawa

  3. 1978

    Blood Type: Blue

    Dr. Hyodo

  4. The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

    Movie

  5. Take Me Away!

    Ryunosuke Tamaru

  6. Love and Faith

    Ankokuji

  7. Lost Love

    Professor Kamiyama

  8. 1977

    Utamaro's World

    Tanuma

  9. The Young

    Movie

  10. The Alaska Story

    Amaohka

  11. 1976

    Love in the North

    Movie

  12. Stars and Storms

    Movie

  13. Permanent Blue

    Movie

  14. Cobra 2

    Kudo

  15. Lullaby of the Earth

    Evangelist

  16. Frozen River

    Movie

  17. 1975

    Oretachi no Tabi

    TV

  18. Kyukei no Koya

    Movie

  19. Hadashi no seishun

    Movie

  20. 1974

    ESPY

    Salabad

  21. Scalpel

    Kokubo

  22. My Way

    Lawyer

  23. 1973
  24. Zatoichi's Conspiracy

    Shinbei

  25. The Killing Game

    Movie

  26. 1972

    Red Target

    Mike Tachibana

  27. 1971
  28. Evil Spirits in the Darkness

    Movie

  29. The Earth is Born Again

    Mitsuo Iwashita

  30. Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple

    (voice)

  31. 1970

    This Transient Life

    Mori

  32. Records of Bloodshed

    Seiichiro Machida

  33. Rebel Against Glory

    Movie

1960s

  1. 1969

    Vixen

    Nobuyuki Ishido

  2. Bullet Wound

    Movie

  3. 夕陽の恋人

    Movie

  4. 1968

    Secret Information

    Toru Kijima

  5. Devil in My Flesh

    Movie

  6. Gambler's Farewell

    Riichirô Maejima

  7. 1967
  8. The Rose Colored Two

    Director Iwamoto

  9. Rebellion of Japan

    Movie

  10. 1966
  11. A Sky Full of Tears

    Nagai

  12. Japan's Most Chivalrous

    Shuji Onoda

  13. 1965
  14. Haigo no hito

    Masaaki Izumida

  15. 1964
  16. My Lover

    Emi Terunobu

  17. 1963

    She and He

    Eiichi Ishikawa

  18. The Ugly American

    Deong

  19. Rififi in Tokyo

    Danny Riquet

  20. 1961

    Restoration Fire

    Yamanami Keisuke

  21. Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

    Movie

  22. 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

    Movie

  23. A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji

    Movie

  24. Festival of Swordsmen

    Kamio Shume

  25. An Edo Magistrate

    Movie

  26. Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen

    Movie

  27. 1960

    Shinran, Part II

    Movie

  28. The Pirates

    Shinzo Murakami

  29. Shinran

    Movie

  30. Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

    Movie

  31. Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4

    Movie

  32. Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3

    Movie

  33. Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

    Movie

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. Hawk of the North

    Movie

  3. Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

    Movie

  4. 1958

    The Nameless Man

    Movie

  5. Fearless Opposition

    Movie

  6. 1957

    The Eleventh Hour

    Shimano

  7. The Story of Pure Love

    Movie

  8. Showdown in Blood

    Movie

  9. The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend

    Kogoro Akechi

  10. Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki

    Kogoro Akechi

  11. 1956

    恐怖の空中殺人

    里見

  12. The Chop Professor

    Movie

  13. Avalanche

    Movie

  14. Five Paths to Revenge

    Jun Mitani

  15. 1955

    Christ in Bronze

    Hagiwara Yusa

  16. Hirado Pirates

    Movie

  17. The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

    Ensign Asakura

  18. 1954

    A Billionaire

    Monta

  19. Hana to hatō

    Movie

  20. The End of a Day

    Leutnant Guni Hanata

  21. 1953
  22. At the End of the Clouds

    Movie

  23. Tower of Lilies

    Teacher Tamai

  24. 1952
  25. Violence

    Movie

  26. Mother

    Shinjiro Hirai

  27. A Ripple in a Morning

    Movie

  28. The Yamabiko School

    Movie

  29. August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan

    Reporter Saeki

  30. 1951

    Karate Sanshiro

    Movie

  31. Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai

    Movie

  32. The Love Letter Trial

    Movie

  33. Weeping Doll

    Ryuji

  34. 1950

    Escape Between Midnight and Dawn

    Movie

  35. Till We Meet Again

    Saburo Tajima

1940s

  1. 1949

    A Woman's Face

    Movie

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1970s

  1. 1978

    The Glacier Fox

    Narrator (voice)