Eiji Okada
Acting
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.
Born: June 13, 1920
Place of Birth: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Filmography
as White Man
as Masakichi Ono
as Hachiro Ishimoto
as Omi-no-kami
as Ozawa Taicho
as Taichi Dôjima
as Kozo Hisamatsu
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
as Professor Watanabe
as Shuhei Agata
as Yoshio Morikawa
as Assistant General Tokunaga
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
as Narrator (voice)
as Ankokuji
as Professor Kamiyama
as Tanuma
as Amaohka
as Kudo
as Evangelist
as Bunmei
as Salabad
as Tono
as Kokubo
as Lawyer
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
as Shogen Wakita
as Shinbei
as Mike Tachibana
as Inoue Chikugonokami
as Mitsuo Iwashita
as (voice)
as Mori
as Seiichiro Machida
as Nobuyuki Ishido
as Toru Kijima
as Riichirô Maejima
as Tsubaki
as Director Iwamoto
as Dr. Kato
as The Boss
as Asai
as Shuji Onoda
as Tatewaki Koriyama
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
as Genjirô Maruume
as Lord Matsudaira
as Nozawa
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
as Eiichi Ishikawa
as Deong
as Danny Riquet
as Yamanami Keisuke
as Kamio Shume
as Shinzo Murakami
as Lui
as Shimano
as Kogoro Akechi
as Kogoro Akechi
as Jun Mitani
as Ensign Asakura
as Monta
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
as Kitagawa
as Teacher Tamai
as Shinjiro Hirai
as Ryuji
as Saburo Tajima