Eiji Okada
ActingAlso Known As
Okada Eiji, Эйдзи Окада
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.
Movies
(133 total)
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
The Face of Another
as The Boss
The Yakuza
as Tono
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
This Transient Life
as Mori
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
The Ugly American
as Deong
Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
