Heihachirō Ōkawa | ALEFAST

Heihachirō Ōkawa

Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)

Known For: Acting

Born: Sōka, Saitama, Japan, 1905-09-09

Died: 1971-05-27

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Tipsy Life		0
2	1934	Romantic and Crazy	Count	0
3	1935	Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts	Aoyama	64
4	1935	Drifting	Sankichi	0
5	1935	Wife! Be Like a Rose!	Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)	70
6	1935	Five Men in a Circus	Kokichi	54
7	1935	The Girl in the Rumor	Shintaro	59
8	1936	Brother and Sister		60
9	1936	The Road I Travel with You	Asaji Amanuma	63
10	1936	Morning's Tree-Lined Street	Ogawa	67
11	1937	A Woman's Sorrows		67
12	1937	Learn from Experience, Part One		60
13	1937	Learn from Experience, Part Two		62
14	1938	Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro	Matsuzaki	63
15	1939	Blizzard Ronin		0
16	1939	Numazu Officer School		0
17	1939	Ichiyo Higuchi		0
18	1939	Easy Alley		0
19	1940	Hikari to kage (Zenpen)		0
20	1940	Keshô yuki		0
21	1940	Wedding Day		0
22	1941	Shanghai Moon		0
23	1941	Mother of the Red Hands		0
24	1942	Sky of Hope	Okada	0
25	1942	The Man Who Waited		0
26	1942	Bouquet of the South Seas	Harada, pilot	50
27	1942	Wings of Victory		63
28	1944	The Dawn of Freedom	Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara	0
29	1951	Tokyo File 212		45
30	1951	Dancing Girl	Kayama	63
31	1952	Lil's Return from Shanghai	Takada	70
32	1952	A Ripple in a Morning		60
33	1952	Geisha Girl		0
34	1953	The Eagle of the Pacific	(uncredited)	76
35	1954	All of Myself	Kadokura	0
36	1954	Ghost Man		65
37	1955	Floating Clouds		77
38	1955	Three Stripes in the Sun	Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)	70
39	1957	The Bridge on the River Kwai	Captain Kanematsu	78
40	1957	The Mysterians	Person at Board Meeting	64
41	1958	The Wind Cannot Read	Lieutenant Nakamura	62
42	1961	The Big Wave	Yukio's Father	0
43	1961	Marines, Let's Go	Yoshida (Hotel Manager)	60
44	1962	Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1		0
45	1962	Chûshingura		73
46	1964	Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster	Astronomer (uncredited)	70
47	1968	Destroy All Monsters	Engineer	69
48	1971	One of Those Things	Kawasaki	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	No Data	No Data	No Data	No Data