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