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Eiji Okada
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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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As actor
The Stairway to the Distant Past
Secret Liaisons
Heat Wave
Traffic Jam
Summer of the Lion Kings
Green Requiem
Spring Bell
Agi, the Fury of Evil
不倫 この愛が裁けますか
Antarctica
Praying Mantis
Cliff of Death
Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
Kamikaze, the Adventurer
Crazed Fruit
Don't Touch the Bride! My Son is a Murderer
Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
The S.S. Happiness Sets Sail
Magnitude 7.9
A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
Dog of Fortune
The Strangling
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
Lost Love
The Glacier Fox
August Without Emperor
Blood Type: Blue
Love and Faith
Take Me Away!
Utamaro's World