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

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

TV

• Onihei Hankachō
• Yokomizo Seishi Series