Eiji Okada
Acting · Born 1920-06-13 · age 75 at death · 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.
Titles
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Woman in the Dunes
Lady Snowblood
The Face of Another
The Yakuza
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Antarctica
Samurai Spy
The X from Outer Space
This Transient Life
Assassination
Silence
The Ugly American
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Hiroshima
Manhunt
Mother
Crazed Fruit
Lullaby of the Earth
Heat Wave
Rififi in Tokyo
She and He
White Beast
The Scent of Incense
Sanshiro Sugata
Till We Meet Again
Utamaro's World
ESPY
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Blood Type: Blue
Tower of Lilies
The Strangling
Festival of Swordsmen
Onihei Hankachō
The Sands of Kurobe
The Eleventh Hour
Love and Faith
Vixen
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
The Scarlet Camellia
The Story of Pure Love
I Am a Cat
Lost Love
Here Is a Spring
Praying Mantis
Traffic Jam
Magnitude 7.9
The Pirates
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
An Edo Magistrate
Spring Bell
A Billionaire
My Way
August Without Emperor
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Hawk of the North
Dog of Fortune
Pretty Devil Yoko
Take Me Away!
Gambler's Farewell