Eiji Okada
Eiji Okada (岡田 英次, Okada Eiji, 13 June 1920 – 14 September 1995) was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial 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 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais. In this film, Eiji Okada had to learn the screenplay phonetically because he didn't speak French. He is also known for playing the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American. Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
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The Ninja War of Torakage
Hitodenashi no koi
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Traffic Jam
Green Requiem
Spring Bell
Agi, the Fury of Evil- 不倫不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Antarctica- DODon't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
Bôkensha kamikaze- THThe S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Magnitude 7.9
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
The Strangling
Blood Type: Blue
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Lost Love
The Glacier Fox
Love and Faith
Take Me Away!
The Alaska Story
Utamaro's World
Love in the North
Stars and Storms
Permanent Blue
Lullaby of the Earth
凍河
Manhunt
Cobra 2
I Am a Cat
The Yakuza
My Way
Esupai
Lady Snowblood
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Red Target
Silence
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
The Earth is Born Again
This Transient Life
Rebel Against Glory
Bullet Wound
Vixen
Secret Information
The X from Outer Space
The Face of Another
Hikô shôjo Yôko
Samurai Spy
Haigo no hito
Sanshiro Sugata
Assassination
Woman in the Dunes
The Scarlet Camellia
The Scent of Incense. Part 2
The Scent of Incense. Part 1
She and He
The Ugly American
Rififi in Tokyo
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Festival of Swordsmen
Restoration Fire
Shinran, Part II
The Pirates
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Hiroshima Mon Amour- SHShingo juban-shobu
Fearless Opposition
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
The Story of Pure Love
They Are Buried Alive
Avalanche
Christ in Bronze
There Is a Spring
Ningen gyorai kaiten
A Billionaire
Hiroshima
At the End of the Clouds
Himeyuri no tô
Mother
A Ripple in a Morning
Shinkû chitai
Karate Sanshiro
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
White Beast
Till We Meet Again