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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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Known For
Woman in the Dunes
(1964)
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959)
Lui
Lady Snowblood
(1973)
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
(1973)
Shogen Wakita
The Face of Another
(1966)
The Boss
The Yakuza
(1974)
Tono
Antarctica
(1983)
Ozawa Taicho
Full Filmography
Acting
A Woman's Face
(1949)
White Beast
(1950)
Till We Meet Again
(1950)
Saburo Tajima
Weeping Doll
(1951)
Ryuji
Karate Sanshiro
(1951)
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
(1951)
Mother
(1952)
Shinjiro Hirai
Vacuum Zone
(1952)
A Ripple in a Morning
(1952)
The Yamabiko School
(1952)
Tower of Lilies
(1953)
Teacher Tamai
Hiroshima
(1953)
Kitagawa
At the End of the Clouds
(1953)
A Billionaire
(1954)
Monta
The End of a Day
(1954)
Leutnant Guni Hanata
Christ in Bronze
(1955)
Hagiwara Yusa
Here Is a Spring
(1955)
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
(1955)
Ensign Asakura
Hirado Pirates
(1955)
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
(1956)
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
(1956)
Kogoro Akechi
Five Paths to Revenge
(1956)
Jun Mitani
The Chop Professor
(1956)
Avalanche
(1956)
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
(1957)
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
(1957)
Kogoro Akechi
The Story of Pure Love
(1957)
The Eleventh Hour
(1957)
Shimano
Showdown in Blood
(1957)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
(1959)
Lui
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
(1959)
Hawk of the North
(1959)
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
(1960)
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
(1960)
The Pirates
(1960)
Shinzo Murakami
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
(1960)
Shinran
(1960)
Shinran, Part II
(1960)
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
(1961)
Festival of Swordsmen
(1961)
Kamio Shume
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
(1961)
Restoration Fire
(1961)
Yamanami Keisuke
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
(1961)
The Ugly American
(1963)
Deong
She and He
(1963)
Eiichi Ishikawa
Rififi in Tokyo
(1963)
Danny Riquet
Woman in the Dunes
(1964)
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Assassination
(1964)
Lord Matsudaira
The Scent of Incense
(1964)
Nozawa
The Scarlet Camellia
(1964)
Genjirô Maruume
Samurai Spy
(1965)
Tatewaki Koriyama
Sanshiro Sugata
(1965)
Gennosuke / Tesshin
The Face of Another
(1966)
The Boss
Pretty Devil Yoko
(1966)
Asai
Japan's Most Chivalrous
(1966)
Shuji Onoda
The X from Outer Space
(1967)
Dr. Kato
Rebellion of Japan
(1967)
Portrait of Chieko
(1967)
Tsubaki
The Will to Live
(1967)
Tattooed Temptress
(1968)
Devil in My Flesh
(1968)
Secret Information
(1968)
Toru Kijima
Gambler's Farewell
(1968)
Riichirô Maejima
The Sands of Kurobe
(1968)
Vixen
(1969)
Nobuyuki Ishido
Bullet Wound
(1969)
This Transient Life
(1970)
Mori
Rebel Against Glory
(1970)
Records of Bloodshed
(1970)
Seiichiro Machida
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
(1971)
Silence
(1971)
Inoue Chikugonokami
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(1971)
(voice)
Red Target
(1972)
Mike Tachibana
Lady Snowblood
(1973)
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
(1973)
Shinbei
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
(1973)
Shogen Wakita
The Yakuza
(1974)
Tono
My Way
(1974)
Lawyer
ESPY
(1974)
Salabad
I Am a Cat
(1975)
Bunmei
Hadashi no seishun
(1975)
Lullaby of the Earth
(1976)
Evangelist
Cobra 2
(1976)
Kudo
Love in the North
(1976)
Permanent Blue
(1976)
Manhunt
(1976)
Frozen River
(1976)
Utamaro's World
(1977)
Tanuma
The Gate of Youth Part 2
(1977)
The Alaska Story
(1977)
Amaohka
Lost Love
(1978)
Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
(1978)
Narrator (voice)
August without Emperor
(1978)
Assistant General Tokunaga
Blood Type: Blue
(1978)
Love and Faith
(1978)
Ankokuji
Take Me Away!
(1978)
Ryunosuke Tamaru
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
(1978)
Dog of Fortune
(1979)
Shuhei Agata
The Strangling
(1979)
Yoshio Morikawa
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
(1980)
Magnitude 7.9
(1980)
Professor Watanabe
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
(1980)
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
(1981)
Crazed Fruit
(1981)
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Shi no dangai
(1982)
Antarctica
(1983)
Ozawa Taicho
Praying Mantis
(1983)
Taichi Dôjima
Agi, the Fury of Evil
(1984)
Omi-no-kami
Spring Bell
(1985)
Hachiro Ishimoto
Green Requiem
(1988)
Heat Wave
(1991)
Masakichi Ono
Traffic Jam
(1991)
Summer of the Lion Kings
(1991)
The Stairway to the Distant Past
(1995)
White Man
Secret Liaisons
(1995)