Eiji Okada
Born June 13, 1920 (Age: 105)
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Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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.
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.
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Filmography
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
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Age: 70
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不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
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as
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Age: 64
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
1982
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as Kozo Hisamatsu
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Age: 62
No Image
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
1981
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as
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Age: 61
No Image
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
1980
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Age: 60
The Glacier Fox
1978
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 58
The Young
1977
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Age: 56
Kyukei no Koya
1975
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as
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Age: 54
The Yakuza
1974
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as Tono
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Age: 54
Scalpel
1974
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as Kokubo
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Age: 54
The Earth is Born Again
1971
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as Mitsuo Iwashita
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Age: 50
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
1971
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as (voice)
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Age: 50
Records of Bloodshed
1970
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as Seiichiro Machida
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Age: 49
Rebel Against Glory
1970
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Age: 49
Vixen
1969
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as Nobuyuki Ishido
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Age: 49
Bullet Wound
1969
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Age: 49
夕陽の恋人
1969
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as
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Age: 49
Secret Information
1968
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as Toru Kijima
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Age: 47
Restoration Fire
1961
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as Yamanami Keisuke
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Age: 41
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
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Age: 41
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
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Age: 41
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
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Age: 40
Festival of Swordsmen
1961
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as Kamio Shume
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Age: 40
An Edo Magistrate
1961
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Age: 40
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
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Age: 40
Shinran, Part II
1960
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Age: 40
The Pirates
1960
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as Shinzo Murakami
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Age: 40
Shinran
1960
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Age: 40
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
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Age: 39
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
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Age: 39
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
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Age: 39
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
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Age: 39
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
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as Lui
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Age: 38
Hawk of the North
1959
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Age: 38
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
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Age: 38
Fearless Opposition
1958
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Age: 37
恐怖の空中殺人
1956
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as 里見
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Age: 36
No Image
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
1956
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as Kogoro Akechi
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Age: 36
No Image
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
1956
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as Kogoro Akechi
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Age: 36
The Chop Professor
1956
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Age: 35
Avalanche
1956
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Age: 35
Five Paths to Revenge
1956
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as Jun Mitani
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Age: 35
Hirado Pirates
1955
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Age: 34
Here Is a Spring
1955
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Age: 34
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
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as Ensign Asakura
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Age: 34