Eiji Okada

Known for ActingBorn 1920-06-13Died 1995-09-14Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Devil in My Flesh

The Will to Live

Japan's Most Chivalrous

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

Shinran

The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces

Green Requiem

Secret Information

Shinran, Part II

The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend

Christ in Bronze

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Agi, the Fury of Evil

Vacuum Zone

Summer of the Lion Kings

Woman in the Dunes

Take Me Away!

The Alaska Story

Permanent Blue

Here Is a Spring

Bullet Wound

Onihei Hankachō

Gambler's Farewell

Tattooed Temptress

Rebellion of Japan

Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

The Glacier Fox

Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki

The Chop Professor

Violence

The Face of Another

Hiroshima Mon Amour

The Gate of Youth Part 2

Lady Snowblood

The Pirates

The Stairway to the Distant Past

Portrait of Chieko

Spring Bell

This Transient Life

The End of a Day

Antarctica

August Without Emperor

The Eleventh Hour

Hiroshima

Secret Liaisons

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons