As Actor
The Stairway to the Distant Past
1995
7.0
Eiji Okada
Acting
Birth Date
June 13, 1920
Place of Birth
Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Date of Death
September 14, 1995
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography
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Traffic Jam
1991
5.0
As Actor
Spring Bell
1985
6.0
As Actor
Agi, the Fury of Evil
1984
7.0
As Actor
Antarctica
1983
7.2
As Actor
Magnitude 7.9
1980
4.7
As Actor
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
1980
6.0
As Actor
Blood Type: Blue
1978
5.5
As Actor
Take Me Away!
1978
7.0
As Actor
The Glacier Fox
1978
7.8
As Actor
Lost Love
1978
5.5
As Actor
Utamaro's World
1977
5.6
As Actor
The Alaska Story
1977
6.0
As Actor
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
6.5
As Actor
Frozen River
1976
3.0
As Actor
Manhunt
1976
6.5
As Actor
I Am a Cat
1975
2.8
As Actor
ESPY
1974
5.6
As Actor
The Yakuza
1974
7.1
As Actor
My Way
1974
5.7