
Eiji Okada
- Date of Birth: 1920-06-13
- Date of Death: 1995-09-14
- Place of Birth: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
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, an... 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.

Sanshiro Sugata
Action, Drama • 1965 May

Japanese Humanity and Justice
Drama, Crime • 1977 May

The Stairway to the Distant Past
Drama, Crime • 1995 March

Agi, the Fury of Evil
Fantasy, Horror • 1984 December

Restoration Fire
Drama, History • 1961 October

Yokomizo Seishi Series
Mystery, Crime, Drama • 1977 April

Vacuum Zone
Drama • 1952 December

Mother
Drama • 1952 June

Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Action, Drama, Adventure • 1973 April

Tower of Lilies
War, Drama • 1953 January