Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 13, 1920
Place of Birth
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Also Known As
- Okada Eiji
- Эйдзи Окада
Eiji Okada
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.
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Known For - Movies
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
The Face of Another
as The Boss
Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Blood Type: Blue
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
