Person Details
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Aliases: Okada Eiji , Эйдзи Окада
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 66
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Woman in the Dunes
(1964) Entomologist Niki JumpeiLady Snowblood
(1973) Gishirō TsukamotoThe Scent of Incense
(1964) NozawaHiroshima Mon Amour
(1959) LuiTower of Lilies
(1953) Teacher TamaiSanshiro Sugata
(1965) Gennosuke / TesshinMy Way
(1974) LawyerESPY
(1974) SalabadActing
Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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1995 | N/A | |
White Man | ||
1991 | N/A | |
Masakichi Ono | ||
N/A | ||
1989 | N/A | |
1988 | N/A | |
1987 | N/A | |
1985 | Hachiro Ishimoto | |
1984 | Omi-no-kami | |
1983 | Ozawa Taicho | |
Taichi Dôjima | ||
1982 | N/A | |
1981 | N/A | |
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦) | ||
1980 | N/A | |
Professor Watanabe | ||
N/A | ||
1979 | Shuhei Agata | |
Yoshio Morikawa | ||
1978 | N/A | |
N/A | ||
Assistant General Tokunaga | ||
Ryunosuke Tamaru | ||
Narrator (voice) | ||
Ankokuji | ||
Professor Kamiyama | ||
1977 | N/A | |
Tanuma | ||
N/A | ||
Amaohka | ||
1976 | N/A | |
N/A | ||
Kudo | ||
Evangelist | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
1975 | N/A | |
Bunmei | ||
N/A | ||
1974 | Salabad | |
Tono | ||
Lawyer | ||
1973 | Gishirō Tsukamoto | |
Shogen Wakita | ||
Shinbei | ||
1972 | Mike Tachibana | |
1971 | Inoue Chikugonokami | |
N/A | ||
(voice) | ||
1970 | Mori | |
Seiichiro Machida | ||
N/A | ||
1969 | Nobuyuki Ishido | |
N/A | ||
1968 | Toru Kijima | |
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
Riichirô Maejima | ||
1967 | N/A | |
Tsubaki | ||
Dr. Kato | ||
N/A | ||
1966 | The Boss | |
Asai | ||
Shuji Onoda | ||
1965 | Tatewaki Koriyama | |
Gennosuke / Tesshin | ||
1964 | Genjirô Maruume | |
Lord Matsudaira | ||
Nozawa | ||
Entomologist Niki Jumpei | ||
1963 | Eiichi Ishikawa | |
Deong | ||
Danny Riquet | ||
1961 | Yamanami Keisuke | |
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
Kamio Shume | ||
1960 | N/A | |
Shinzo Murakami | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
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1959 | Lui | |
N/A | ||
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1957 | Shimano | |
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
Kogoro Akechi | ||
Kogoro Akechi | ||
1956 | Kogoro Akechi | |
Kogoro Akechi | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
Jun Mitani | ||
1955 | Hagiwara Yusa | |
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
Ensign Asakura | ||
1954 | Monta | |
Leutnant Guni Hanata | ||
1953 | Kitagawa | |
N/A | ||
Teacher Tamai | ||
1952 | N/A | |
Shinjiro Hirai | ||
N/A | ||
N/A | ||
1951 | N/A | |
N/A | ||
Ryuji | ||
1950 | N/A | |
Saburo Tajima | ||
1949 | N/A | |
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