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Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Acting

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, 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.​

Filmography Movies

Acting

Poster for 20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
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20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2

20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
Poster for Gambler's Farewell
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Gambler's Farewell

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Gambler's Farewell
Riichirô Maejima
Poster for Lady Snowblood
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Lady Snowblood

7.5(0.4K)
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Poster for Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(voice)
Poster for Hiroshima Mon Amour
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Hiroshima Mon Amour

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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
Poster for Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Poster for The Yakuza
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The Yakuza

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The Yakuza
Tono
Poster for Mother
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Mother

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Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
Poster for The Face of Another
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The Face of Another

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The Face of Another
The Boss
Poster for The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
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The Beauty of the Black Narcissus

Gallery

Eiji Okada portrait
Eiji Okada portrait