Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1920-06-13
Day of Death
1995-09-14
Place of Birth
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.
Filmography (135)
Secret Liaisons
1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
Traffic Jam
1991
Heat Wave
1991
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
Green Requiem
1988
Spring Bell
1985
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
Antarctica
1983
Praying Mantis
1983
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1982
Shi no dangai
1982
