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
- Cliff of Death
- 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
- Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
1980
1979
- The Strangling as Yoshio Morikawa
- Dog of Fortune as Shuhei Agata
1978
- Blood Type: Blue
- August Without Emperor as Assistant General Tokunaga
- Take Me Away! as Ryunosuke Tamaru
- Love and Faith as Ankokuji
- Lost Love as Professor Kamiyama
- The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
- The Glacier Fox as Narrator (voice)
1977
1976
- Manhunt
- Lullaby of the Earth as Evangelist
- Frozen River
- Love in the North
- Cobra 2 as Kudo
- Stars and Storms
- Permanent Blue
1975
1974
- The Yakuza as Tono
- ESPY as Salabad
- My Way as Lawyer
- Scalpel as Kokubo
1973
- Lady Snowblood as Gishirō Tsukamoto
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as Shogen Wakita
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy as Shinbei
- 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
- This Transient Life as Mori
- Records of Bloodshed as Seiichiro Machida
- Rebel Against Glory
1969
- Vixen as Nobuyuki Ishido
- Bullet Wound
- 夕陽の恋人
1968
- Tattooed Temptress
- Gambler's Farewell as Riichirô Maejima
- The Sands of Kurobe
- Secret Information as Toru Kijima
- Devil in My Flesh
1967
- The Will to Live
- The X from Outer Space as Dr. Kato
- Rebellion of Japan
- Portrait of Chieko as Tsubaki
- The Rose Colored Two as Director Iwamoto
1966
- The Face of Another as The Boss
- Pretty Devil Yoko as Asai
- Japan's Most Chivalrous as Shuji Onoda
1965
- Samurai Spy as Tatewaki Koriyama
- Haigo no hito as Masaaki Izumida
- Sanshiro Sugata as Gennosuke / Tesshin
1964
- Woman in the Dunes as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
- Assassination as Lord Matsudaira
- The Scarlet Camellia as Genjirô Maruume
- The Scent of Incense as Nozawa
- My Lover as Emi Terunobu
1963
- The Ugly American as Deong
- Rififi in Tokyo as Danny Riquet
- She and He as Eiichi Ishikawa
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
- The Chop Professor
- Five Paths to Revenge as Jun Mitani
- 恐怖の空中殺人 as 里見
- Avalanche
- The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces as Kogoro Akechi
- The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom as Kogoro Akechi
1955
- Christ in Bronze as Hagiwara Yusa
- Hirado Pirates
- Here Is a Spring
- The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Asakura
1954
- Hana to hatō
- 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
- The Yamabiko School
- Mother as Shinjiro Hirai
- Vacuum Zone
- August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan as Reporter Saeki
- A Ripple in a Morning
- Violence