Eiji Okada

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

135

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-06-13

Day of death

1995-09-14 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

Eiji Okada

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.​

Known For

  • Onihei Hankachō

    Onihei Hankachō

  • 夕陽の恋人

    夕陽の恋人

  • Woman in the Dunes

    Woman in the Dunes

  • Crazed Fruit

    Crazed Fruit

  • Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

    Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

  • A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead

    A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead

  • The Face of Another

    The Face of Another

  • Yokomizo Seishi Series

    Yokomizo Seishi Series

  • The Stairway to the Distant Past

    The Stairway to the Distant Past

  • Hiroshima Mon Amour

    Hiroshima Mon Amour

  • Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen

    Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen

  • The Earth is Born Again

    The Earth is Born Again

  • This Transient Life

    This Transient Life

  • Lady Snowblood

    Lady Snowblood

  • Avalanche

    Avalanche

  • She and He

    She and He

  • The X from Outer Space

    The X from Outer Space

  • Five Paths to Revenge

    Five Paths to Revenge

  • Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3

    Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3

  • Tattooed Temptress

    Tattooed Temptress

  • The Gate of Youth Part 2

    The Gate of Youth Part 2

  • The Sands of Kurobe

    The Sands of Kurobe

  • Love and Faith

    Love and Faith

  • Antarctica

    Antarctica

  • Lost Love

    Lost Love

  • The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

    The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

  • The Alaska Story

    The Alaska Story

  • Pretty Devil Yoko

    Pretty Devil Yoko

  • Love in the North

    Love in the North

  • Frozen River

    Frozen River

  • The Will to Live

    The Will to Live

  • Hiroshima

    Hiroshima

  • The Scent of Incense

    The Scent of Incense

  • Agi, the Fury of Evil

    Agi, the Fury of Evil

  • The Story of Pure Love

    The Story of Pure Love

  • Till We Meet Again

    Till We Meet Again

  • Dog of Fortune

    Dog of Fortune

  • Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

    Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

  • Secret Information

    Secret Information

  • Gambler's Farewell

    Gambler's Farewell

  • The Strangling

    The Strangling

  • Lullaby of the Earth

    Lullaby of the Earth

  • Praying Mantis

    Praying Mantis

  • Hawk of the North

    Hawk of the North

  • An Edo Magistrate

    An Edo Magistrate

  • Hadashi no seishun

    Hadashi no seishun

  • August without Emperor

    August without Emperor

  • A Woman's Face

    A Woman's Face

  • A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji

    A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji

  • Samurai Spy

    Samurai Spy

  • Magnitude 7.9

    Magnitude 7.9

  • The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces

    The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces

  • The Scarlet Camellia

    The Scarlet Camellia

  • ESPY

    ESPY

  • Take Me Away!

    Take Me Away!

  • Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

    Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

  • Festival of Swordsmen

    Festival of Swordsmen

  • Fearless Opposition

    Fearless Opposition

  • Devil in My Flesh

    Devil in My Flesh

  • Records of Bloodshed

    Records of Bloodshed

  • The Glacier Fox

    The Glacier Fox

  • Violence

    Violence

  • Green Requiem

    Green Requiem

  • Portrait of Chieko

    Portrait of Chieko

  • Heat Wave

    Heat Wave

  • The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

    The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

  • The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

    The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail

  • Weeping Doll

    Weeping Doll

  • At the End of the Clouds

    At the End of the Clouds

  • Shinran, Part II

    Shinran, Part II

  • Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki

    Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki

  • Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

    Return of the One-Armed Swordsman

  • Karate Sanshiro

    Karate Sanshiro

  • Restoration Fire

    Restoration Fire

  • Shi no dangai

    Shi no dangai

  • The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

    The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

  • Showdown in Blood

    Showdown in Blood

  • Hirado Pirates

    Hirado Pirates

  • Traffic Jam

    Traffic Jam

  • Japanese Humanity and Justice

    Japanese Humanity and Justice

  • The Yamabiko School

    The Yamabiko School

  • Here Is a Spring

    Here Is a Spring

  • The Chop Professor

    The Chop Professor

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

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

  • Shinran

    Shinran

  • Bullet Wound

    Bullet Wound

  • Vixen

    Vixen

  • Evil Spirits in the Darkness

    Evil Spirits in the Darkness

  • Mother

    Mother

  • The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend

    The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend

  • The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour

  • Kamikaze, the Adventurer

    Kamikaze, the Adventurer

  • Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

    Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy

  • I Am a Cat

    I Am a Cat

  • Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4

    Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4

  • Permanent Blue

    Permanent Blue

  • A Ripple in a Morning

    A Ripple in a Morning

  • The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom

    The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom

  • Vacuum Zone

    Vacuum Zone

  • Summer of the Lion Kings

    Summer of the Lion Kings

  • Japan's Most Chivalrous

    Japan's Most Chivalrous

  • Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata

  • The End of a Day

    The End of a Day

  • Spring Bell

    Spring Bell

  • Tower of Lilies

    Tower of Lilies

  • Zatoichi's Conspiracy

    Zatoichi's Conspiracy

  • Cobra 2

    Cobra 2

  • Red Target

    Red Target

  • Kyukei no Koya

    Kyukei no Koya

  • 不倫　この愛が裁けますか

    不倫　この愛が裁けますか

  • Rebel Against Glory

    Rebel Against Glory

  • My Way

    My Way

  • Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple

    Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple

  • Blood Type: Blue

    Blood Type: Blue

  • The Yakuza

    The Yakuza

  • Assassination

    Assassination

  • Utamaro's World

    Utamaro's World

  • A Billionaire

    A Billionaire

  • Manhunt

    Manhunt

  • Secret Liaisons

    Secret Liaisons

  • 20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2

    20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2

  • Christ in Bronze

    Christ in Bronze

  • The Pirates

    The Pirates

  • Rebellion of Japan

    Rebellion of Japan

  • The Killing Game

    The Killing Game

  • White Beast

    White Beast

  • Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

    Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1

  • Silence

    Silence

  • Rififi in Tokyo

    Rififi in Tokyo

  • Oretachi no Tabi

    Oretachi no Tabi

  • Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

    Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

  • The Ugly American

    The Ugly American

  • Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey

    Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey

  • Scalpel

    Scalpel

  • The Young

    The Young