Eiji Okada

Acting · Born 1920-06-13 in 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.​

Filmography

• Gambler's Farewell as Riichirô Maejima
• Lady Snowblood as Gishirō Tsukamoto
• Hiroshima Mon Amour as Lui
• The Yakuza as Tono
• Mother as Shinjiro Hirai
• The Face of Another as The Boss
• The X from Outer Space as Dr. Kato
• Woman in the Dunes as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
• Antarctica as Ozawa Taicho
• Samurai Spy as Tatewaki Koriyama