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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Known for
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Silence
Inoue Chikugonokami
The Yakuza
Tono
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Face of Another
The Boss
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
Hiroshima
Kitagawa
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
Love in the North
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
Lullaby of the Earth
Evangelist
Tower of Lilies
Teacher Tamai
Vixen
Nobuyuki Ishido
The Sands of Kurobe
The Scent of Incense
Nozawa
ESPY
Salabad
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
Secret Information
Toru Kijima
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
The Scarlet Camellia
Genjirô Maruume
Tattooed Temptress
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
At the End of the Clouds
The Strangling
Yoshio Morikawa
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
The Story of Pure Love
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
Records of Bloodshed
Seiichiro Machida
The Stairway to the Distant Past
White Man
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Permanent Blue
The Young
Shi no dangai
The Yamabiko School
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Ensign Asakura
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Omi-no-kami
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Festival of Swordsmen
Kamio Shume
Violence
A Billionaire
Monta
She and He
Eiichi Ishikawa
Sanshiro Sugata
Gennosuke / Tesshin
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Shinbei
Secret Liaisons
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Weeping Doll
Ryuji
Five Paths to Revenge
Jun Mitani
The Eleventh Hour
Shimano
Bullet Wound
Showdown in Blood
Manhunt
Vacuum Zone
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Portrait of Chieko
Tsubaki
Magnitude 7.9
Professor Watanabe
Red Target
Mike Tachibana
Summer of the Lion Kings
This Transient Life
Mori
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
The Will to Live
Rebellion of Japan
Hadashi no seishun
Karate Sanshiro
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Avalanche
Devil in My Flesh
Hawk of the North
Christ in Bronze
Hagiwara Yusa
Rebel Against Glory
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Kogoro Akechi
Take Me Away!
Ryunosuke Tamaru
Love and Faith
Ankokuji
The Pirates
Shinzo Murakami
Lost Love
Professor Kamiyama
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Shuji Onoda
White Beast
Here Is a Spring
A Woman's Face
Frozen River
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
Shinran, Part II
Cobra 2
Kudo
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
The End of a Day
Leutnant Guni Hanata
Gambler's Farewell
Riichirô Maejima
夕陽の恋人
Shinran
Pretty Devil Yoko
Asai
Traffic Jam
Hirado Pirates
The Chop Professor
A Ripple in a Morning
August without Emperor
Assistant General Tokunaga
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
Kogoro Akechi
My Way
Lawyer
Fearless Opposition
The Earth is Born Again
Mitsuo Iwashita
The Rose Colored Two
Director Iwamoto
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Kogoro Akechi
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Kogoro Akechi
Blood Type: Blue
An Edo Magistrate
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Till We Meet Again
Saburo Tajima
Green Requiem
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
Japanese Humanity and Justice
The Ugly American
Deong
Kyukei no Koya
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Rififi in Tokyo
Danny Riquet
The Alaska Story
Amaohka
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
Onihei Hankachō
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(voice)
Yokomizo Seishi Series
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
Oretachi no Tabi
恐怖の空中殺人
里見
Restoration Fire
Yamanami Keisuke
The Killing Game
Scalpel
Kokubo
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Kozo Hisamatsu