Eiji Okada
Known for Acting
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
The Face of Another
1966
as The Boss
Woman in the Dunes
1964
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
1973
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
as Evangelist
夕陽の恋人
1969
Spring Bell
1985
as Hachiro Ishimoto
Here Is a Spring
1955
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
as Shogen Wakita
Manhunt
1976
August Without Emperor
1978
as Assistant General Tokunaga
The Strangling
1979
as Yoshio Morikawa
Assassination
1964
as Lord Matsudaira
The Eleventh Hour
1957
as Shimano
Crazed Fruit
1981
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
Antarctica
1983
as Ozawa Taicho
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Love and Faith
1978
as Ankokuji
Blood Type: Blue
1978
The Ugly American
1963
as Deong