Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada
Native name	岡田 英次
Born	June 13, 1920 Chiba, Japan
Died	14 September 1995 (aged 75)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1946–1995

Eiji Okada (岡田 英次 Okada Eiji, 13 June 1920 – 14 September 1995) was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.^[1]

Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American.

Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.

Filmography

• Onna no Kao (1949)
• Hana no Sugao (1949)
• Until We Meet Again (1950)
• Kenjū no Mae ni Tatsu Haha (1950)
• Fūsetsu Nijūnen (1951)
• Shinkū Chitai (1952)
• Mother (1952)
• Haha wo Kou Uta (1952)
• Yamabiko Gakkō (1952)
• Himeyuri no Tō (1953)
• Hiroshima (1953)
• Miseraretaru Tamashii (1953)
• Wakaki Hi no Takuboku Kumo wa Tensai De Aru (1954)
• Hana to Hatō (1954)
• Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955)
• Koko ni Izumi Ari (1955)
• Hana no Yukue (1955)
• Bōryokugai (1955)^[2]
• Kenjū Tai Kenjū (1956)
• Kurama Tengu, Shirouma no Misshi (1956)
• Christ in Bronze (1956)
• Jun'ai Monogatari (1957)
• Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
• The Ugly American (1963)
• Kanojo to kare (1963)
• Woman in the Dunes (1964)
• Ansatsu (1964}
• The Face of Another (1966)
• The X from Outer Space (1967)
• Mujo (1970)
• Lady Snowblood (1973)
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
• ESPY (1974)
• I am a cat (1975)
• Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare (1976)
• Blue Christmas (1978)
• The Gate of Youth (1981)
• Crazy Fruit (1981)
• Nankyoku Monogatari (1983)

References

1. Ronald Sullivan "Eiji Okada, 75, Japanese Co-Star of Hiroshima, Mon Amour", New York Times, 5 October 2008.
2. "暴力街（１９５５）". Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 28 January 2013.

External links

• Eiji Okada at the Internet Movie Database