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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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Movies
Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
The Yakuza
Tono
Mother
Shinjiro Hirai
The Face of Another
The Boss
The X from Outer Space
Dr. Kato
Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Samurai Spy
Tatewaki Koriyama
Antarctica
Ozawa Taicho
Utamaro's World
Tanuma
The Ugly American
Deong
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
Shinbei
White Beast
Assassination
Lord Matsudaira
This Transient Life
Mori
I Am a Cat
Bunmei
Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono
She and He
Eiichi Ishikawa
Lost Love
Professor Kamiyama
The Glacier Fox
Narrator (voice)
A Billionaire
Monta
My Way
Lawyer
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
ESPY
Salabad
Christ in Bronze
Hagiwara Yusa
The Scent of Incense
Nozawa
Rififi in Tokyo
Danny Riquet
August without Emperor
Assistant General Tokunaga
Sanshiro Sugata
Gennosuke / Tesshin
The Stairway to the Distant Past
White Man
Blood Type: Blue
Here Is a Spring
Secret Liaisons
Lullaby of the Earth
Evangelist
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Love and Faith
Ankokuji
Dog of Fortune
Shuhei Agata
The Alaska Story
Amaohka
Vixen
Nobuyuki Ishido
Silence
Inoue Chikugonokami
Vacuum Zone
Rebellion of Japan
Tattooed Temptress
Till We Meet Again
Saburo Tajima
The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Kogoro Akechi
Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
Kogoro Akechi
The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
Kogoro Akechi
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
Ensign Asakura
Tower of Lilies
Teacher Tamai
Devil in My Flesh
Cobra 2
Kudo
Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
Hiroshima
Kitagawa
Love in the North
The End of a Day
Leutnant Guni Hanata
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
The Strangling
Yoshio Morikawa
Secret Information
Toru Kijima
Portrait of Chieko
Tsubaki
Festival of Swordsmen
Kamio Shume
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
The Scarlet Camellia
Genjirô Maruume
Permanent Blue
Manhunt
Red Target
Mike Tachibana
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Five Paths to Revenge
Jun Mitani
Weeping Doll
Ryuji
Crazed Fruit
Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Shogen Wakita
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
The Story of Pure Love
Praying Mantis
Taichi Dôjima
A Ripple in a Morning
Hadashi no seishun
Traffic Jam
The Will to Live
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Omi-no-kami
The Eleventh Hour
Shimano
The Yamabiko School
Magnitude 7.9
Professor Watanabe
Green Requiem
Restoration Fire
Yamanami Keisuke
Pretty Devil Yoko
Asai
Karate Sanshiro
The Pirates
Shinzo Murakami
Japan's Most Chivalrous
Shuji Onoda
Bullet Wound
The Chop Professor
Shi no dangai
The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
Take Me Away!
Ryunosuke Tamaru
At the End of the Clouds
Summer of the Lion Kings
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple
(voice)
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Spring Bell
Hachiro Ishimoto
Frozen River
Showdown in Blood
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
Gambler's Farewell
Riichirô Maejima
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Shinran
Hawk of the North
Rebel Against Glory
Records of Bloodshed
Seiichiro Machida
Avalanche
A Woman's Face
Shinran, Part II
Hirado Pirates
The Sands of Kurobe
Shows
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
Onihei Hankachō
Oretachi no Tabi