Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada
was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial 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 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais. In this film, Eiji Okada had to learn the screenplay phonetically because he did not speak French. He is also known for playing the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American.
Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
Selected filmography
Onna no Kao (1949)
Hana no Sugao (1949)
Until We Meet Again (1950) – Tajima Saburo
Shiroi yajû (1950) – Iwasaki
Gozen reiji no shutugoku (1950)
Kenjū no Mae ni Tatsu Haha (1950)
Nakinureta ningyô (1951) – Ryûji
Fūsetsu Nijūnen (1951)
Kaze ni soyogu asi (Kouhen) (1951) – Mitsujiro Hirose
Yamabiko Gakkō (1952)
Asa no hamon (1952) – Kajigoro
Mother (1952) – Shinjiro
Boryoku (1952)
Shinkū Chitai (1952) – Okamoto
Haha wo Kou Uta (1952)
Reimei hachigatsu jugo-nichi (1952)
Himeyuri no Tō (1953) – Teacher Tamai
Hiroshima (1953) – Kitagawa
Miseraretaru Tamashii (1953)
Wakaki Hi no Takuboku Kumo wa Tensai De Aru (1954) – Takuboku Ishikawa
Okuman choja (1954) – Monta
Hana to Hatō (1954)
Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955)
Koko ni Izumi Ari (1955)
Hana no Yukue (1955) – Hiroshi Hamamura
Gokumonchô (1955) – San'nosuke Tsuzuki
Christ in Bronze (1955)
Bōryokugai (1955)
Kao no nai otoko (1955) – Masahiko Arisaka / Yamada
Kenjû tai kenjû (1955)
Choppu sensei (1956)
Shonen tanteidan: Nijumenso no akuma (1956) – Kogoro Akechi
Shonen tanteidan: Daiichibu yokaihakushi (1956)
Kurama Tengu, Shirouma no Misshi (1956)
Jun'ai Monogatari (1957) – Shitayama
Dotanba (1957)
Shonen tanteidan: Tetto no kaijin (1957) – Kogoro Akechi
Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki (1957)
Shingo juban-shobu (1959) – Shozaburo Masaki
Hiroshima mon amour (1959) – Lui
Shingo jûban shôbu: dai-ni-bu (1959)
Shinran (1960) – Shiro Amagi
Ôzora no muhômono (1960)
Kaizoku bahansen (1960)
Restoration Fire (1961) – Yamanami Keisuke
Kengo tengu matsuri (1961)
Rififi in Tokyo (1963) – Danny Riquet
The Ugly American (1963) – Deong
Kanojo to kare (1963) – Eiichi Ishikawa
Woman in the Dunes (1964) – Entomologist Niki Jumpei
The Scent of Incense (Kôge - Nibu: Mitsumata no shô/Ichibu: Waremokô no shô) (1964) – Nozawa
Ansatsu (1964) – Lord Matsudaira
The Scarlet Camellia (1964) – Genjirô Maruume
Haigo no hito (1965) – Masaaki Izumida
Sanshiro Sugata (1965) – Gennosuke / Tesshin
Samurai Spy (1965) – Tatewaki Koriyama
Nihon daikyôkaku (1966) – Shuji Onoda
Hikô shôjo Yôko (1966) – Asai
The Face of Another (1966) – The Boss
Bosû wa ore no kenjû de (1966)
The X from Outer Space (1967) – Dr. Kato
Portrait of Chieko (1967) – Tsubaki
Utage (1967) – Adachi
The Sands of Kurobe (1968) – Yoshino
Irezumi muzan (1968)
Shin irezumi muzan tekka no jingi (1968)
Showa no inochi (1968)
Tarekomi (1969) – Toru Kijima
Dankon (1969) – George Kitabayashi
Nyotai (1969) – Nobuyuki Ishidô
Jotai (1969) – Nobuyuki Ishido
Mujo (1970)
Senketsu no kiroku (1970)
Yomigaeru daichi (1971) – Mitsuo iwashita
Yami no naka no chimimoryo (1971) – Ikezoe
Silence (1971) – Inoue Chikugonokami
Tsuji-ga-hana (1972)
Bara no hyôteki (1972) -Tachibana Mike
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973) – Shinbei of Hitachiya
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973) – Wakita
Lady Snowblood (1973) – Gishirô Tsukamoto
Waga michi (1974) – Lawyer
Mesu (1974) – Kokubo
The Yakuza (1974) – Tono
ESPY (1974) – Salabad
I am a cat (1975) – Bunmei
Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare (1976)
Lullaby of the Earth (1976) – Evangelist
Utareru mae-ni ute! (1976) – President Kudo
Permanent Blue: Manatsu no koi (1976) – Boy's father
Arasuka monogatari (1977) – Amaohka
Seishun no mon: Jiritsu hen (1977) – Minoru Yuki
Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba (1977) – Tanuma
Wakai hito (1977) – Mr. Okajima
Nihon no jingi (1977) – Yohei Inada
Genshiryoku sensô (1978) – Professor Kamiyama
Ogin-sama (1978) – Ankokuji
Furimukeba Ai (1978) – Ryunosuke Tamaru
Kôtei no inai hachigatsu (1978) – Tokunaga
Blue Christmas (1978)
Ôgon no inu (1979) – Shuhei Agata
The Strangling (1979) – Yoshio Morikawa
Jishin rettô (1980)
Kofukugo shuppan (1980)
The Gate of Youth (1981) – Tôno, Chika's step father
Crazy Fruit (1981) – Yuzo Dojima
Nankyoku Monogatari (1983) – Chief Ozawa
Akujo kamakiri (1983) – Taichi Dôjima
Haru no kane (1985) – Hachiro Ishimoto
Ôidippsu no katana (1986) – Shunsuke's uncle
Oedipus no yaiba (1986) – Shunsuke's uncle
Guriin rekuiemu (1988) – Zenichiro Okada
Shishiohtachi no natsu (1991) – Kazumichi Sakagami
Kagerô (1991) – Masakichi Ono
Jutai (1991) – Ichimatsu, Grandfather
Harukana jidai no kaidan o (1995) – White man
Hitodenashi no koi (1995) – (final film role)
References
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1920 births
1995 deaths
20th-century Japanese male actors
Japanese male film actors
People from Chōshi
Actors from Chiba Prefecture
Imperial Japanese Army personnel of World War II