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Known For
Acting
Birthday
June 13, 1920
Died
September 14, 1995
Place of Birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Also Known As
- Okada Eiji
- Эйдзи Окада
Eiji Okada
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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.
Known For
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Secret Liaisons
1995
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White Man
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
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Traffic Jam
1991
5.9
Masakichi Ono
Heat Wave
1991
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Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
8.1
Onihei Hankachō
1989
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Green Requiem
1988
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Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
1987
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Hachiro Ishimoto
Spring Bell
1985
7.0
Omi-no-kami
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984
Credits
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Secret Liaisons
1995
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
as White Man
1995
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Traffic Jam
1991
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Heat Wave
as Masakichi Ono
1991
5.9
Summer of the Lion Kings
1991
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Onihei Hankachō
1989
8.1
Green Requiem
1988
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Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
1987
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Spring Bell
as Hachiro Ishimoto
1985
6.0
Agi, the Fury of Evil
as Omi-no-kami
1984
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不倫 この愛が裁けますか
1984
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Antarctica
as Ozawa Taicho
1983
7.2
Praying Mantis
as Taichi Dôjima
1983
3.5
Shi no dangai
1982
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981
5.6
Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1981
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The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
1980
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Magnitude 7.9
as Professor Watanabe
1980
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Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
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Dog of Fortune
as Shuhei Agata
1979
4.5
The Strangling
as Yoshio Morikawa
1979
4.9
Blood Type: Blue
1978
5.5
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
1978
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August without Emperor
as Assistant General Tokunaga
1978
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Take Me Away!
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
1978
6.0
The Glacier Fox
as Narrator (voice)
1978
7.8
Love and Faith
as Ankokuji
1978
6.3
Lost Love
as Professor Kamiyama
1978
5.5
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
7.0
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
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Utamaro's World
as Tanuma
1977
5.6
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
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The Alaska Story
as Amaohka
1977
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Love in the North
1976
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Permanent Blue
1976
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Cobra 2
as Kudo
1976
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Lullaby of the Earth
as Evangelist
1976
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Frozen River
1976
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Manhunt
1976
6.5
Oretachi no Tabi
1975
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Kyukei no Koya
1975
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I Am a Cat
as Bunmei
1975
3.3
Hadashi no seishun
1975
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ESPY
as Salabad
1974
5.6
The Yakuza
as Tono
1974
7.1
My Way
as Lawyer
1974
5.7
Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973
7.5
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen Wakita
1973
7.3
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as Shinbei
1973
6.9
The Killing Game
1973
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Red Target
as Mike Tachibana
1972
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Silence
as Inoue Chikugonokami
1971
7.2
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
1971
5.5
The Earth is Born Again
as Mitsuo Iwashita
1971
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Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
as (voice)
1971
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This Transient Life
as Mori
1970
7.5
Records of Bloodshed
as Seiichiro Machida
1970
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Rebel Against Glory
1970
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Vixen
as Nobuyuki Ishido
1969
6.2
Bullet Wound
1969
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Secret Information
as Toru Kijima
1968
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Devil in My Flesh
1968
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Tattooed Temptress
1968
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The Sands of Kurobe
1968
6.2
Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô Maejima
1968
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The Will to Live
1967
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Portrait of Chieko
as Tsubaki
1967
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The X from Outer Space
as Dr. Kato
1967
5.2
Rebellion of Japan
1967
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The Face of Another
as The Boss
1966
7.8
Pretty Devil Yoko
as Asai
1966
4.5
Japan's Most Chivalrous
as Shuji Onoda
1966
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Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki Koriyama
1965
6.6
Sanshiro Sugata
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
1965
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The Scarlet Camellia
as Genjirô Maruume
1964
5.0
Assassination
as Lord Matsudaira
1964
7.1
The Scent of Incense
as Nozawa
1964
7.2
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1964
8.2
She and He
as Eiichi Ishikawa
1963
6.7
The Ugly American
as Deong
1963
6.5
Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny Riquet
1963
5.7
Restoration Fire
as Yamanami Keisuke
1961
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
1961
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
1961
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
1961
4.3
Festival of Swordsmen
as Kamio Shume
1961
6.1
Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen
1961
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Shinran, Part II
1960
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The Pirates
as Shinzo Murakami
1960
7.2
Shinran
1960
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
1960
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
1960
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
1960
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
1960
5.8
Hiroshima Mon Amour
as Lui
1959
7.7
Hawk of the North
1959
5.3
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
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Fearless Opposition
1958
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The Eleventh Hour
as Shimano
1957
7.2
The Story of Pure Love
1957
6.8
Showdown in Blood
1957
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
as Kogoro Akechi
1957
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Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
as Kogoro Akechi
1957
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
as Kogoro Akechi
1956
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The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
as Kogoro Akechi
1956
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The Chop Professor
1956
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Avalanche
1956
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Five Paths to Revenge
as Jun Mitani
1956
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Christ in Bronze
as Hagiwara Yusa
1955
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Hirado Pirates
1955
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Here Is a Spring
1955
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The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
as Ensign Asakura
1955
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A Billionaire
as Monta
1954
5.7
The End of a Day
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
1954
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Hiroshima
as Kitagawa
1953
7.6
At the End of the Clouds
1953
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Tower of Lilies
as Teacher Tamai
1953
6.8
Vacuum Zone
1952
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Violence
1952
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Mother
as Shinjiro Hirai
1952
6.9
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
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The Yamabiko School
1952
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Karate Sanshiro
1951
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
1951
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Weeping Doll
as Ryuji
1951
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White Beast
1950
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Till We Meet Again
as Saburo Tajima
1950
6.3
A Woman's Face
1949
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