Actor

Eiji Okada

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Acting credits

130

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

0.7

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Movies: 125Series: 5

TMDB ID: 25466

IMDb ID: nm0645402

Known for: Acting

Born: June 13, 1920

Died: September 14, 1995

Age: 75

Place of birth: Choshi, Chiba, Japan

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1949 - 1995

Years active: 47

Average TMDB rating: 7.07

Wikidata: Q139253

Also known as

Okada Eiji • Эйдзи Окада

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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.