Actor

Eiji Okada

1949–present1920–1995DramaActionCrimeRomance

Chronicler of the Human Condition

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Known For

135 acting credits

as Lui

Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Lui

1959

Hiroshima Mon Amour

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

Woman in the Dunes

as Entomologist Niki Jumpei

1964

Woman in the Dunes

Filmography

1995The Stairway to the Distant PastWhite Man7.2 1995Secret Liaisons7.0 1991Heat WaveMasakichi Ono5.9 1991Traffic Jam5.6 1991Summer of the Lion Kings8.0 1988Green Requiem9.0 1985Spring BellHachiro Ishimoto

About

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.

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