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Eiji Okada
Choshi, Chiba, Japan
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 durin…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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1995
Secret Liaisons
Movie
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1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Movie White Man
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1991
Traffic Jam
Movie
-
1991
Heat Wave
Movie Masakichi Ono
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1991
Summer of the Lion Kings
Movie
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1989
Onihei Hankachō
TV show
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1988
Green Requiem
Movie
- 1987
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1985
Spring Bell
Movie Hachiro Ishimoto
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1984
Agi, the Fury of Evil
Movie Omi-no-kami
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1984
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Movie
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1983
Antarctica
Movie Ozawa Taicho
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1983
Praying Mantis
Movie Taichi Dôjima
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1982
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Movie Kozo Hisamatsu
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1982
Cliff of Death
Movie
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1981
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Movie
More credits
- 1981
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1981
Crazed Fruit
Movie Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
- 1980
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1980
Magnitude 7.9
Movie Professor Watanabe
- 1980
- 1980
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1979
The Strangling
Movie Yoshio Morikawa
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1979
Dog of Fortune
Movie Shuhei Agata
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1978
Blood Type: Blue
Movie Dr. Hyodo
- 1978
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1978
August Without Emperor
Movie Assistant General Tokunaga
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1978
Take Me Away!
Movie Ryunosuke Tamaru
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1978
The Glacier Fox
Movie Narrator (voice)
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1978
Love and Faith
Movie Ankokuji
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1978
Lost Love
Movie Professor Kamiyama
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1977
Utamaro's World
Movie Tanuma
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1977
Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
TV show
- 1977
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1977
The Young
Movie
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1977
Yokomizo Seishi Series
TV show
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1977
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Movie
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1977
The Alaska Story
Movie Amaohka
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1976
Love in the North
Movie
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1976
Stars and Storms
Movie
