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
Traffic Jam
1991
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as
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Age: 70
Heat Wave
1991
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as Masakichi Ono
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Age: 70
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
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as
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Age: 70
Green Requiem
1988
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as
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Age: 68
Spring Bell
1985
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as Hachiro Ishimoto
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Age: 65
No Image
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
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
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as
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Age: 61
No Image
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
1981
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as
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Age: 61
Crazed Fruit
1981
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as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
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Age: 60
No Image
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
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as
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Age: 60
Magnitude 7.9
1980
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as Professor Watanabe
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Age: 60
No Image
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
1980
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as
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Age: 60
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
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as
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Age: 59
Blood Type: Blue
1978
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as
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Age: 58
August Without Emperor
1978
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as Assistant General Tokunaga
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Age: 58
Take Me Away!
1978
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as Ryunosuke Tamaru
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Age: 58
The Glacier Fox
1978
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as Narrator (voice)
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Age: 58
Love and Faith
1978
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as Ankokuji
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Age: 57
Lost Love
1978
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as Professor Kamiyama
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Age: 57
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
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as
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Age: 56
The Young
1977
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as
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Age: 56
Frozen River
1976
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as
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Age: 55
Kyukei no Koya
1975
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as
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Age: 54
ESPY
1974
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as Salabad
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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
My Way
1974
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as Lawyer
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Age: 54
Lady Snowblood
1973
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as Gishirō Tsukamoto
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Age: 53
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
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as Shogen Wakita
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Age: 53
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973
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as Shinbei
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Age: 52
The Killing Game
1973
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as
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Age: 52
Red Target
1972
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as Mike Tachibana
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Age: 51
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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as
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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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as
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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
Gambler's Farewell
1968
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as Riichirô Maejima
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Age: 47
Samurai Spy
1965
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as Tatewaki Koriyama
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Age: 45
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
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as Gennosuke / Tesshin
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Age: 44
The Scarlet Camellia
1964
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as Genjirô Maruume
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Age: 44
Assassination
1964
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as Lord Matsudaira
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Age: 44
The Scent of Incense
1964
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as Nozawa
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Age: 43
Woman in the Dunes
1964
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as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
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Age: 43
She and He
1963
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as Eiichi Ishikawa
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Age: 43
The Ugly American
1963
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as Deong
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Age: 42
Rififi in Tokyo
1963
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as Danny Riquet
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Age: 42
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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as
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Age: 41
20 Duels of Young Shingo, Part 2
1961
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as
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Age: 41
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
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as
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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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as
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Age: 40
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
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as
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Age: 40
Shinran, Part II
1960
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as
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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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as
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Age: 40
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
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as
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Age: 39
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
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as
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Age: 39
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
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as
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Age: 39
Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
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as
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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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as
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Age: 38
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
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as
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Age: 38
Fearless Opposition
1958
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as
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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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as
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Age: 35
Avalanche
1956
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as
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Age: 35
Five Paths to Revenge
1956
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as Jun Mitani
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Age: 35
Christ in Bronze
1955
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as Hagiwara Yusa
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Age: 35
Hirado Pirates
1955
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as
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Age: 34
Here Is a Spring
1955
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as
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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
A Billionaire
1954
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as Monta
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Age: 34
The End of a Day
1954
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as Leutnant Guni Hanata
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Age: 33
Hiroshima
1953
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as Kitagawa
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Age: 33
At the End of the Clouds
1953
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as
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Age: 32
Tower of Lilies
1953
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as Teacher Tamai
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Age: 32
White Beast
1950
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as
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Age: 29
Till We Meet Again
1950
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as Saburo Tajima
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Age: 29