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Eiji Okada

Eiji Okada

Acting • 1920-06-13 • Choshi, Chiba, Japan

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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Woman in the Dunes8.2

Woman in the Dunes

1964

Hiroshima Mon Amour7.7

Hiroshima Mon Amour

1959

The Yakuza7.1

The Yakuza

1974

The Face of Another7.8

The Face of Another

1966

Antarctica7.2

Antarctica

1983

Assassination7.1

Assassination

1964

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