Eiji Okada
Known for: Acting
Born: June 13, 1920
Died: September 14, 1995
Place of birth: Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.
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Filmography
143 movies · 6 TV shows, newest first
7.0
Secret Liaisons
1995
7.2
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
5.6
Traffic Jam
1991
5.9
Heat Wave
1991
8.0
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
7.8
Onihei Hankachō
1989
9.0
Green Requiem
1988
NR
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
1987
7.3
Spring Bell
1985
8.5
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984NR
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
7.2
Antarctica
1983
5.0
Praying Mantis
1983
2.0
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1982
NR
Cliff of Death
1982
6.3
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981NR
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
1981
5.7
Crazed Fruit
1981NR
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
5.8
Magnitude 7.9
1980NR
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
1980
6.0
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
5.7
Dog of Fortune
1979
4.8
The Strangling
1979
6.1
Blood Type: Blue
1978
NR
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
7.3
August Without Emperor
1978
8.0
Take Me Away!
1978
7.8
The Glacier Fox
1978
6.4
Love and Faith
1978
6.4
Lost Love
1978
5.6
Utamaro's World
1977
NR
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
7.0
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
NR
The Young
1977
7.0
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
7.5
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
8.0
The Alaska Story
1977
7.0
Love in the North
1976
NR
Stars and Storms
1976
8.0
Permanent Blue
1976
NR
Cobra 2
1976
6.4
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
3.0
Frozen River
1976
6.2
Manhunt
1976
NR
Oretachi no Tabi
1975NR
なつかしき海の歌
1975
NR
Kyukei no Koya
1975
4.0
I Am a Cat
1975
NR
Hadashi no seishun
1975
5.4
ESPY
1974
7.1
The Yakuza
1974
NR
Scalpel
1974
6.0
My Way
1974
7.5
Lady Snowblood
1973
7.3
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
7.0
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973
NR
The Killing Game
1973
6.0
Red Target
1972
7.2
Silence
1971
6.3
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
NR
The Earth is Born Again
1971
NR
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971
7.4
This Transient Life
1970
NR
Records of Bloodshed
1970
NR
Rebel Against Glory
1970
6.7
Vixen
1969
8.0
Bullet Wound
1969
NR
夕陽の恋人
1969
9.0
Secret Information
1968
10.0
Devil in My Flesh
19688.0
Tattooed Temptress
1968
7.0
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
8.0
Gambler's Farewell
1968
10.0
The Will to Live
1967
7.5
Portrait of Chieko
1967
NR
The Rose Colored Two
1967
5.2
The X from Outer Space
1967
8.0
Rebellion of Japan
1967
7.8
The Face of Another
1966
6.0
A Sky Full of Tears
1966
3.3
Pretty Devil Yoko
1966
10.0
Japan's Most Chivalrous
1966
6.4
Samurai Spy
1965
7.1
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
NR
Haigo no hito
1965
5.2
The Scarlet Camellia
1964
NR
My Lover
1964
7.1
Assassination
1964
7.2
The Scent of Incense
1964
8.2
Woman in the Dunes
1964
7.0
She and He
1963
6.6
The Ugly American
1963
5.9
Rififi in Tokyo
1963
7.0
Restoration Fire
1961
10.0
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
NR
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
5.3
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
6.5
Festival of Swordsmen
1961
6.6
An Edo Magistrate
1961
NR
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
9.0
Shinran, Part II
1960
7.6
The Pirates
1960
10.0
Shinran
1960
8.0
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
NR
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
NR
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
6.0
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
7.7
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
5.3
Hawk of the North
1959
8.0
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
NR
Fearless Opposition
1958
7.4
The Eleventh Hour
1957
6.8
The Story of Pure Love
1957
NR
Showdown in Blood
1957
9.0
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
1957
8.0
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
1957
NR
恐怖の空中殺人
195610.0
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
1956NR
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
1956
8.0
The Chop Professor
1956
NR
Avalanche
1956
NR
Five Paths to Revenge
1956
9.0
Christ in Bronze
1955
NR
Hirado Pirates
1955
8.2
Here Is a Spring
1955
9.0
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
6.8
A Billionaire
1954
NR
Hana to hatō
1954
7.5
The End of a Day
1954
7.4
Hiroshima
1953
NR
At the End of the Clouds
1953
6.8
Tower of Lilies
1953
8.5
Vacuum Zone
1952
8.0
Violence
1952
7.0
Mother
1952
7.0
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
NR
The Yamabiko School
1952
NR
August 15, 1945, New Dawn For Japan
1952
NR
Karate Sanshiro
1951
9.0
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951
NR
Waga ichidaka jidai no hanzai
1951
NR
The Love Letter Trial
1951
NR
Weeping Doll
1951
NR
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950NR
Kenjū no mae ni tatsu haha
1950
5.6
White Beast
1950
6.7
Till We Meet Again
1950
NR
A Woman's Face
1949