Eiji Okada
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1920-06-13 – 1995-09-14
Place of birth: Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.
Known for
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
Gambler's Farewell
1968Riichirô Maejima
Lady Snowblood
1973Gishirō Tsukamoto
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971(voice)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959Lui
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
The Yakuza
1974Tono
Mother
1952Shinjiro Hirai
The Face of Another
1966The Boss
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
The X from Outer Space
1967Dr. Kato
Woman in the Dunes
1964Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Shinran
1960
Antarctica
1983Ozawa Taicho
Samurai Spy
1965Tatewaki Koriyama
Hawk of the North
1959
Utamaro's World
1977Tanuma
Rebel Against Glory
1970
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973Shinbei