Eiji Okada
Acting • Born on 6/13/1920 in 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.
Filmography (144)
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
Onihei Hankachō
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Yokomizo Seishi Series
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
An Edo Magistrate
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
The Will to Live
The Face of Another
The Boss