Eiji Okada
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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.
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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.
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Known For
132 titles
A Ripple in a Morning
Traffic Jam
Red Target
She and He
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Violence
White Beast
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
The Alaska Story
The Earth is Born Again
Vacuum Zone
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Shi no dangai
Till We Meet Again
The Killing Game
Fearless Opposition
Karate Sanshiro
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Cobra 2
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
The Glacier Fox
Summer of the Lion Kings
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