
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.

The Story of Pure Love
Romance, Drama • 1957 October

She and He
Drama • 1963 October

Samurai Spy
Action, Drama • 1965 July

The Ugly American
Thriller, Drama • 1963 April

Manhunt
Action, Crime, Drama • 1976 February

Lullaby of the Earth
Drama • 1976 June

Till We Meet Again
Romance, War, Drama • 1950 March

Love and Faith
Drama • 1978 June

Vixen
Drama • 1969 October

The Sands of Kurobe
Drama • 1968 March