Eiji Okada
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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.
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Acting
Movie
Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
1959
Movie
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1964
Movie
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973
Movie
The Face of Another
as The Boss
1966
Movie
The Yakuza
as Tono
1974
Movie
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
1973
Movie
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
1983
Movie
Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
1965
Movie
The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
1967
Movie
This Transient Life
as Mori
1970
Movie
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
1964
Movie
Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
1971
Movie
The Ugly American
as Deong
1963
Movie
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
1973
Movie
Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
1953
Movie
Manhunt
1976
Movie
Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
1952
Movie
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1981
Movie
Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
1976
Movie
Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
1991
Movie
Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny Riquet
1963
Movie
White Beast
1950
Movie
She and He
as Eiichi Ishikawa
1963
Movie
The Scent of Incense
as Nozawa
1964