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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

Filmografi

Woman in the Dunes1964 · Entomologist Niki JumpeiHiroshima Mon Amour1959 · LuiThe Yakuza1974 · TonoThe Face of Another1966 · The BossLady Snowblood1973 · Gishirō TsukamotoStars and Storms1976 · The Nameless Man1958 · Gambler's Farewell1968 · Riichirô MaejimaEscape Between Midnight and Dawn1950 · The Young1977 · The Love Letter Trial1951 · 恐怖の空中殺人1956 · 里見Antarctica1983 · Ozawa TaichoWaga ichidaka jidai no hanzai1951 · An Edo Magistrate1961 · Silence1971 · Inoue ChikugonokamiFestival of Swordsmen1961 · Kamio ShumeTattooed Temptress1968 · Manhunt1976 · Hawk of the North1959 · Hiroshima1953 · KitagawaSecret Information1968 · Toru KijimaHaigo no hito1965 · Masaaki IzumidaMother1952 · Shinjiro Hirai