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Eiji Okada

Jun 13, 1920 - Sep 14, 1995 (75 years old) in Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

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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.

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Known For

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Onihei Hankachō
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Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
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Yokomizo Seishi Series
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Woman in the Dunes
Entomologist Niki Jumpei
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Lui
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Lady Snowblood
Gishirō Tsukamoto
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The Face of Another
The Boss
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The Yakuza
Tono
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Oretachi no Tabi
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Heat Wave
Masakichi Ono

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