Eiji Okada
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
ActingBirthday
June 13, 1920Deathday
September 14, 1995Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
115Place of birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, JapanAlso known as
岡田英次, Okada Eiji, Эйдзи Окада, 冈田英次
Cast credits
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
The Yakuza
Tono
Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
The Face of Another
The Boss
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
The Ugly American
Deong
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Shinbei
White Beast
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
This Transient Life
Mori
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
She and He
Eiichi Ishikawa
Lost Love
Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
A Billionaire
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