Eiji Okada
Born: 1920-06-13 in Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Died: 1995-09-14
Known For: 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.
Filmography
1995
- The Stairway to the Distant Past as White Man
- Secret Liaisons
1991
- Heat Wave as Masakichi Ono
- Summer of the Lion Kings
- Traffic Jam
1989
1988
1985
- Spring Bell as Hachiro Ishimoto
1984
- 不倫 この愛が裁けますか
- Agi, the Fury of Evil as Omi-no-kami
1983
- Praying Mantis as Taichi Dôjima
- Antarctica as Ozawa Taicho
1982
- Shi no dangai
- Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey as Kozo Hisamatsu
1981
- Crazed Fruit as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1980
1979
- The Strangling as Yoshio Morikawa
- Dog of Fortune as Shuhei Agata
1978
- The Glacier Fox as Narrator (voice)
- The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
- Take Me Away! as Ryunosuke Tamaru
- Love and Faith as Ankokuji
- Lost Love as Professor Kamiyama
- August without Emperor as Assistant General Tokunaga
- Blood Type: Blue
1977
1976
- Love in the North
- Lullaby of the Earth as Evangelist
- Permanent Blue
- Manhunt
- Frozen River
- Cobra 2 as Kudo
1975
1974
- The Yakuza as Tono
- ESPY as Salabad
- My Way as Lawyer
- Scalpel as Kokubo
1973
- Lady Snowblood as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy as Shinbei
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as Shogen Wakita
- The Killing Game
1972
- Red Target as Mike Tachibana
1971
- Silence as Inoue Chikugonokami
- The Earth is Born Again as Mitsuo Iwashita
- Evil Spirits in the Darkness
- Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple as (voice)
1970
- Records of Bloodshed as Seiichiro Machida
- This Transient Life as Mori
- Rebel Against Glory
1969
- Vixen as Nobuyuki Ishido
- Bullet Wound
- 夕陽の恋人
1968
- The Sands of Kurobe
- Secret Information as Toru Kijima
- Tattooed Temptress
- Devil in My Flesh
- Gambler's Farewell as Riichirô Maejima
1967
- The X from Outer Space as Dr. Kato
- Portrait of Chieko as Tsubaki
- The Will to Live
- Rebellion of Japan
- The Rose Colored Two as Director Iwamoto
1966
- The Face of Another as The Boss
- Japan's Most Chivalrous as Shuji Onoda
- Pretty Devil Yoko as Asai
1965
- Samurai Spy as Tatewaki Koriyama
- Sanshiro Sugata as Gennosuke / Tesshin
1964
- Woman in the Dunes as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- Assassination as Lord Matsudaira
- The Scent of Incense as Nozawa
- The Scarlet Camellia as Genjirô Maruume
1963
- She and He as Eiichi Ishikawa
- The Ugly American as Deong
- Rififi in Tokyo as Danny Riquet
1961
1960
1958
1957
- The Story of Pure Love
- The Eleventh Hour as Shimano
- Showdown in Blood
- The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend as Kogoro Akechi
- Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki as Kogoro Akechi
1956
- Five Paths to Revenge as Jun Mitani
- Avalanche
- The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces as Kogoro Akechi
- The Chop Professor
- The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom as Kogoro Akechi
- 恐怖の空中殺人 as 里見
1955
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Asakura
- Christ in Bronze as Hagiwara Yusa
- Here Is a Spring
- Hirado Pirates
1954
- A Billionaire as Monta
- The End of a Day as Leutnant Guni Hanata
1953
- Hiroshima as Kitagawa
- Tower of Lilies as Teacher Tamai
- At the End of the Clouds
1952
- Mother as Shinjiro Hirai
- The Yamabiko School
- Violence
- Vacuum Zone
- A Ripple in a Morning
1951
1950
- White Beast
- Till We Meet Again as Saburo Tajima