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
Woman in the Dunes
1964
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
1973
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
Spring Bell
1985
as Hachiro Ishimoto
The Face of Another
1966
as The Boss
Blood Type: Blue
1978
Crazed Fruit
1981
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
as Lui
August Without Emperor
1978
as Assistant General Tokunaga
Heat Wave
1991
as Masakichi Ono
Manhunt
1976
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
as Shogen Wakita
The Story of Pure Love
1957
Antarctica
1983
as Ozawa Taicho
Samurai Spy
1965
as Tatewaki Koriyama
Praying Mantis
1983
as Taichi Dôjima
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
The Yakuza
1974
as Tono
Mother
1952
as Shinjiro Hirai
Utamaro's World
1977
as Tanuma
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
1981