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Eiji Okada

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: Acting

Born: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 1920-06-13

Died: 1995-09-14

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	A Woman's Face		0
2	1950	Till We Meet Again	Saburo Tajima	63
3	1950	White Beast		60
4	1951	Weeping Doll	Ryuji	0
5	1951	The Stormy Era of Twenty Years		0
6	1951	Karate Sanshiro		0
7	1952	A Ripple in a Morning		60
8	1952	The Yamabiko School		0
9	1952	Mother	Shinjiro Hirai	69
10	1952	Violence		0
11	1952	Vacuum Zone		70
12	1953	Tower of Lilies	Teacher Tamai	68
13	1953	At the End of the Clouds		0
14	1953	Hiroshima	Kitagawa	76
15	1954	The End of a Day	Leutnant Guni Hanata	50
16	1954	A Billionaire	Monta	57
17	1955	The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes	Ensign Asakura	0
18	1955	Here Is a Spring		73
19	1955	Hirado Pirates		0
20	1955	Christ in Bronze	Hagiwara Yusa	0
21	1956	Five Paths to Revenge	Jun Mitani	0
22	1956	Avalanche		0
23	1956	The Chop Professor		0
24	1956	The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom	Kogoro Akechi	0
25	1956	The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces	Kogoro Akechi	0
26	1957	Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki	Kogoro Akechi	0
27	1957	The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend	Kogoro Akechi	0
28	1957	Showdown in Blood		0
29	1957	The Story of Pure Love		68
30	1957	The Eleventh Hour	Shimano	72
31	1958	Fearless Opposition		0
32	1959	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2		0
33	1959	Hawk of the North		53
34	1959	Hiroshima Mon Amour	Lui	77
35	1960	Return of the One-Armed Swordsman		58
36	1960	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3		0
37	1960	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4		0
38	1960	Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy		0
39	1960	Shinran		0
40	1960	The Pirates	Shinzo Murakami	72
41	1960	Shinran, Part II		0
42	1961	Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen		0
43	1961	Festival of Swordsmen	Kamio Shume	61
44	1961	A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji		43
45	1961	20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2		0
46	1961	Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku		0
47	1961	Restoration Fire	Yamanami Keisuke	70
48	1963	Rififi in Tokyo	Danny Riquet	57
49	1963	The Ugly American	Deong	65
50	1963	She and He	Eiichi Ishikawa	67
51	1964	Woman in the Dunes	Entomologist Niki Jumpei	82
52	1964	The Scent of Incense	Nozawa	72
53	1964	Assassination	Lord Matsudaira	71
54	1964	The Scarlet Camellia	Genjirô Maruume	50
55	1965	Sanshiro Sugata	Gennosuke / Tesshin	70
56	1965	Samurai Spy	Tatewaki Koriyama	66
57	1966	Pretty Devil Yoko	Asai	45
58	1966	Japan's Most Chivalrous	Shuji Onoda	0
59	1966	The Face of Another	The Boss	78
60	1967	Rebellion of Japan		0
61	1967	The X from Outer Space	Dr. Kato	52
62	1967	Portrait of Chieko	Tsubaki	0
63	1967	The Will to Live		0
64	1968	Gambler's Farewell	Riichirô Maejima	60
65	1968	The Sands of Kurobe		62
66	1968	Tattooed Temptress		0
67	1968	Devil in My Flesh		0
68	1968	Secret Information	Toru Kijima	0
69	1969	Bullet Wound		60
70	1969	Vixen	Nobuyuki Ishido	62
71	1970	Rebel Against Glory		0
72	1970	Records of Bloodshed	Seiichiro Machida	0
73	1970	This Transient Life	Mori	75
74	1971	Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple	(voice)	0
75	1971	The Earth is Born Again	Mitsuo Iwashita	0
76	1971	Evil Spirits in the Darkness		55
77	1971	Silence	Inoue Chikugonokami	72
78	1972	Red Target	Mike Tachibana	60
79	1973	The Killing Game		0
80	1973	Zatoichi's Conspiracy	Shinbei	69
81	1973	Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons	Shogen Wakita	73
82	1973	Lady Snowblood	Gishirō Tsukamoto	75
83	1974	My Way	Lawyer	57
84	1974	The Yakuza	Tono	71
85	1974	ESPY	Salabad	56
86	1975	Hadashi no seishun		0
87	1975	I Am a Cat	Bunmei	33
88	1975	Kyukei no Koya		0
89	1976	Manhunt		65
90	1976	Frozen River		30
91	1976	Lullaby of the Earth	Evangelist	65
92	1976	Cobra 2	Kudo	0
93	1976	Permanent Blue		0
94	1976	Love in the North		70
95	1977	The Alaska Story	Amaohka	60
96	1977	The Gate of Youth Part 2		80
97	1977	Utamaro's World	Tanuma	56
98	1977	Japanese Humanity and Justice		70
99	1978	Lost Love	Professor Kamiyama	55
100	1978	Love and Faith	Ankokuji	63
101	1978	The Glacier Fox	Narrator (voice)	78
102	1978	Take Me Away!	Ryunosuke Tamaru	60
103	1978	August without Emperor	Assistant General Tokunaga	70
104	1978	The Beauty of the Black Narcissus		0
105	1978	Blood Type: Blue		55
106	1979	Dog of Fortune	Shuhei Agata	45
107	1979	The Strangling	Yoshio Morikawa	49
108	1980	Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1		0
109	1980	Magnitude 7.9	Professor Watanabe	47
110	1980	The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail		0
111	1981	Crazed Fruit	Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)	57
112	1981	Kamikaze, the Adventurer		56
113	1982	Shi no dangai		0
114	1983	Praying Mantis	Taichi Dôjima	35
115	1983	Antarctica	Ozawa Taicho	72
116	1984	不倫　この愛が裁けますか		0
117	1984	Agi, the Fury of Evil	Omi-no-kami	70
118	1985	Spring Bell	Hachiro Ishimoto	60
119	1988	Green Requiem		0
120	1991	Summer of the Lion Kings		0
121	1991	Heat Wave	Masakichi Ono	59
122	1991	Traffic Jam		50
123	1995	The Stairway to the Distant Past	White Man	70
124	1995	Secret Liaisons		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Vote Average
1	1975	Oretachi no Tabi	0
2	1977	Yokomizo Seishi Series	70
3	1977	Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu	0
4	1987	Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu	0
5	1989	Onihei Hankachō	81