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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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Filmography
all 132
Movies 123
TV Shows 9
Narrator 1
self 1
Voice 1
Traffic Jam (1991)
Heat Wave (1991)
Green Requiem (1988)
Katana (1986)
Spring Bell (1985)
Antarctica (1983)
Praying Mantis (1983)
Kamikaze, the Adventurer (1981)
Crazed Fruit (1981)
Magnitude 7.9 (1980)
Dog of Fortune (1979)
The Strangling (1979)
Blood Type: Blue (1978)
August without Emperor (1978)
Take Me Away! (1978)
The Glacier Fox (1978)
Love and Faith (1978)
Lost Love (1978)
Falcons of Edo (1978)
Japanese Humanity and Justice (1977)
The Alaska Story (1977)
Permanent Blue (1976)
Cobra 2 (1976)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976)
I Am a Cat (1975)
ESPY (1974)
My Way (1974)
Lady Snowblood (1973)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)
Red Target (1972)
Silence (1971)
Vixen (1969)
Bullet Wound (1969)
Secret Information (1968)
Gambler's Farewell (1968)
The Face of Another (1966)
Ohanahan (1966)
Japan's Most Chivalrous (1966)
Samurai Spy (1965)
Sanshiro Sugata (1965)
The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Assassination (1964)
Woman in the Dunes (1964)
She and He (1963)
Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
Restoration Fire (1961)
Shinran (1960)
The Story of Pure Love (1957)
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend (1957)
The End of a Day (1954)
Hiroshima (1953)
Tower of Lilies (1953)
Vacuum Zone (1952)
Violence (1952)
Mother (1952)
White Beast (1950)
Till We Meet Again (1950)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1920-06-13
Deathday1995-09-14 (75 years old)
Birth PlaceChoshi, Japan
CitizenshipsEmpire of Japan, Japan
Also Known AsOkada Eiji, Эйдзи Окада
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