Personal Info
Birth date
1920-06-13 (105 Years)
Day of death
1995-09-14
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
Okada Eiji
Эйдзи Окада
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.Filmography
Yokomizo Seishi Series
7
Overview:
TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.Oretachi no Tabi
NYR
Overview:
A milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life, worries, and joys.Onihei Hankachō
8.1
Overview:
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
NYR
Overview:
After the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil. Meanwhile, Iemitsu, who took the place of the third shogun, is carrying out a number of political reforms. However, Yui Shosetsu, plans to overthrow the Tokugawa family...Woman in the Dunes
8.211
Overview:
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.Lady Snowblood
7.548
Overview:
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.The Face of Another
7.8
Overview:
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.Antarctica
7.2
Overview:
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.Manhunt
6.5
Overview:
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.Hiroshima Mon Amour
7.695
Overview:
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.262
Overview:
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.Zatoichi's Conspiracy
6.9
Overview:
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.Utamaro's World
5.6
Overview:
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging storyline, recreates the world of that time, as it appeared in Utamaro's paintings.Assassination
7.086
Overview:
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.The X from Outer Space
5.198
Overview:
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.Samurai Spy
6.6
Overview:
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sasuke is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Tatewaki, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale’s end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal than anyone suspected. Director Masahiro Shinoda’s Samurai Spy, filled with clan intrigue, ninja spies, and multiple double crosses, marks a bold stylistic departure from swordplay film convention.White Beast
6
Overview:
Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.Blood Type: Blue
5.5
Overview:
UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new "blue-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.The Yakuza
7.078
Overview:
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.Crazed Fruit
5.714
Overview:
A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an affluent family. He has a difficult time, but love survives despite the problems.Hiroshima
7.6
Overview:
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.ESPY
5.6
Overview:
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.This Transient Life
7.5
Overview:
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.The Sands of Kurobe
6.2
Overview:
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.Spring Bell
6
Overview:
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo, despite his wishes, and the two live separately. Feeling lonely and neglected by her husband, she immerses herself in the depraved life of the city and continues to have a loveless relationship with a doctor, Katsumori. One day, Narumi arrives in Tokyo and learns of Noriko's affair, but he cannot divorce her for the sake of their child, so he devotes himself to his work.Lullaby of the Earth
6.5
Overview:
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies.August without Emperor
7
Overview:
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the post-war constitution, restore the national army and revive the traditional spirit of Japan. As the conspiracy is exposed, the coup squadrons are wiped out one by one. The remaining squadron takes over a night train bound for Tokyo.Acting
1995Secret Liaisons as Unknown
1995The Stairway to the Distant Past as White Man
1991Traffic Jam as Unknown
1991Heat Wave as Masakichi Ono
1991Summer of the Lion Kings as Unknown
1989Onihei Hankachō (1 Episode) as Unknown
1988Green Requiem as Unknown
1987Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu (6 Episodes) as Unknown
1985Spring Bell as Hachiro Ishimoto
1984Agi, the Fury of Evil as Omi-no-kami
1984不倫 この愛が裁けますか as Unknown
1983Antarctica as Ozawa Taicho
1983Praying Mantis as Taichi Dôjima
1982Shi no dangai as Unknown
1981Kamikaze, the Adventurer as Unknown
1981Crazed Fruit as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
1980The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail as Unknown
1980Magnitude 7.9 as Professor Watanabe
1980Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1 as Unknown
1979Dog of Fortune as Shuhei Agata
1979The Strangling as Yoshio Morikawa
1978Blood Type: Blue as Unknown
1978The Beauty of the Black Narcissus as Unknown
1978August without Emperor as Assistant General Tokunaga
1978Take Me Away! as Ryunosuke Tamaru
1978The Glacier Fox as Narrator (voice)
1978Love and Faith as Ankokuji
1978Lost Love as Professor Kamiyama
1977Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Japanese Humanity and Justice as Unknown
1977Yokomizo Seishi Series (1 Episode) as Unknown
1977Utamaro's World as Tanuma
1977The Gate of Youth Part 2 as Unknown
1977The Alaska Story as Amaohka
1976Love in the North as Unknown
1976Permanent Blue as Unknown
1976Cobra 2 as Kudo
1976Lullaby of the Earth as Evangelist
1976Frozen River as Unknown
1976Manhunt as Unknown
1975Oretachi no Tabi (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1975Kyukei no Koya as Unknown
1975I Am a Cat as Bunmei
1975Hadashi no seishun as Unknown
1974ESPY as Salabad
1974The Yakuza as Tono
1974My Way as Lawyer
1973Lady Snowblood as Gishirō Tsukamoto
1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as Shogen Wakita
1973Zatoichi's Conspiracy as Shinbei
1973The Killing Game as Unknown
1972Red Target as Mike Tachibana
1971Silence as Inoue Chikugonokami
1971Evil Spirits in the Darkness as Unknown
1971The Earth is Born Again as Mitsuo Iwashita
1971Dedicated Treasures of Horyuji-Temple as (voice)
1970This Transient Life as Mori
1970Records of Bloodshed as Seiichiro Machida
1970Rebel Against Glory as Unknown
1969Vixen as Nobuyuki Ishido
1969Bullet Wound as Unknown
1968Secret Information as Toru Kijima
1968Devil in My Flesh as Unknown
1968Tattooed Temptress as Unknown
1968The Sands of Kurobe as Unknown
1968Gambler's Farewell as Riichirô Maejima
1967The Will to Live as Unknown
1967Portrait of Chieko as Tsubaki
1967The X from Outer Space as Dr. Kato
1967Rebellion of Japan as Unknown
1966The Face of Another as The Boss
1966Pretty Devil Yoko as Asai
1966Japan's Most Chivalrous as Shuji Onoda
1965Samurai Spy as Tatewaki Koriyama
1965Sanshiro Sugata as Gennosuke / Tesshin
1964The Scarlet Camellia as Genjirô Maruume
1964Assassination as Lord Matsudaira
1964The Scent of Incense as Nozawa
1964Woman in the Dunes as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
1963She and He as Eiichi Ishikawa
1963The Ugly American as Deong
1963Rififi in Tokyo as Danny Riquet
1961Restoration Fire as Yamanami Keisuke
1961Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku as Unknown
196120 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2 as Unknown
1961A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji as Unknown
1961Festival of Swordsmen as Kamio Shume
1961Naruto hijō kanketsu-hen as Unknown
1960Shinran, Part II as Unknown
1960The Pirates as Shinzo Murakami
1960Shinran as Unknown
1960Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy as Unknown
1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4 as Unknown
1960Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3 as Unknown
1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman as Unknown
1959Hiroshima Mon Amour as Lui
1959Hawk of the North as Unknown
1959Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 as Unknown
1958Fearless Opposition as Unknown
1957The Eleventh Hour as Shimano
1957The Story of Pure Love as Unknown
1957Showdown in Blood as Unknown
1957The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend as Kogoro Akechi
1957Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki as Kogoro Akechi
1956The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces as Kogoro Akechi
1956The Boy Detectives Club – Doctor Phantom as Kogoro Akechi
1956The Chop Professor as Unknown
1956Avalanche as Unknown
1956Five Paths to Revenge as Jun Mitani
1955Christ in Bronze as Hagiwara Yusa
1955Hirado Pirates as Unknown
1955Here Is a Spring as Unknown
1955The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes as Ensign Asakura
1954A Billionaire as Monta
1954The End of a Day as Leutnant Guni Hanata
1953Hiroshima as Kitagawa
1953At the End of the Clouds as Unknown
1953Tower of Lilies as Teacher Tamai
1952Vacuum Zone as Unknown
1952Violence as Unknown
1952Mother as Shinjiro Hirai
1952A Ripple in a Morning as Unknown
1952The Yamabiko School as Unknown
1951Karate Sanshiro as Unknown
1951The Stormy Era of Twenty Years as Unknown
1951Weeping Doll as Ryuji
1950White Beast as Unknown
1950Till We Meet Again as Saburo Tajima
1949A Woman's Face as Unknown