Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada (岡田英次) (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.

Filmography

• Nankyoku monogatari (1983)
• Crazy Fruit (1981)
• The Gate of Youth (1981)
• Blue Christmas (1978)
• Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare (1976)
• I am a cat (1975)
• ESPY (1974)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
• Lady Snowblood (1973)
• The X from Outer Space (1967)
• Woman in the Dunes (1964)
• Kanojo to kare (1963)
• "The Ugly American" (1963)
• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• Jun'ai monogatari (1957)
• Christ in Bronze (1956)
• Kurama tengu, shirouma no misshi (1956)
• Kenjuu tai kenjuu (1956)
• Bōryoku no Machi (1955)
• Hana no yukue (1955)
• Koko ni izumi ari (1955)
• (人間魚雷回天 Ningen gyorai kaiten) (1955)
• Hana to hatou (1954)
• Wakaki hi no takuboku kumo wa tensai dearu (1954)
• Miseraretaru tamashii (1953)
• Hiroshima (1953)
• Himeyuri no tou (1953)
• Yamabiko gakkou (1952)
• Haha wo kou uta (1952)
• Okaasan (1952)
• Shinkuu chitai (1952)
• Fuusetsu nijuu nen (1951)
• Kenjuu no mae ni tatsu haha (1950)
• Until We Meet Again (1950)
• Hana no sugao (1949)
• Onna no kao (1949)

External links

• Eiji Okada at the Internet Movie Database