EIJI OKADA
ACTING
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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.
- Lady Snowblood1973
- Hiroshima Mon Amour1959
- The Yakuza1974
- Mother1952
- The Face of Another1966
- The X from Outer Space1967
- Woman in the Dunes1964
- Samurai Spy1965
- Antarctica1983
- Utamaro's World1977
- The Ugly American1963
- Zatoichi's Conspiracy1973
- Assassination1964
- This Transient Life1970
- Heat Wave1991
- Lost Love1978
- The Glacier Fox1978
- ESPY1974
- The Scent of Incense1964
- Rififi in Tokyo1963
- August without Emperor1978
- Sanshiro Sugata1965
- The Stairway to the Distant Past1995
- Lullaby of the Earth1976
- Dog of Fortune1979
- The Alaska Story1977
- Silence1971
- Hiroshima1953
- The Strangling1979
- Festival of Swordsmen1961
- The Scarlet Camellia1964
- Red Target1972
- Crazed Fruit1981
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons1973
- Agi, the Fury of Evil1984
- The Eleventh Hour1957
- Magnitude 7.91980
- Restoration Fire1961
- Pretty Devil Yoko1966
- The Pirates1960
- Spring Bell1985
- Gambler's Farewell1968