Eiji Okada

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

Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Lui

Woman in the Dunes

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

Lady Snowblood

as Gishirō Tsukamoto

The Face of Another

as The Boss

The Yakuza

as Tono

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

as Shogen Wakita

Antarctica

as Ozawa Taicho

The X from Outer Space

as Dr. Kato

Samurai Spy

as Tatewaki Koriyama

This Transient Life

as Mori