Eiji Okada
Acting
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.
Born: June 13, 1920
Place of Birth: Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Known For
Woman in the Dunes
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Onihei Hankachō
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
The Gate of Youth Part 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
The Glacier Fox
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island, where the freezing winters are long and the mild summers short. After Flep defeats another male fox to become Leila's lifelong partner, they mate and raise a litter of five kits. With their family complete, the group must contend with human interference in their habitat, such as chicken farms and snowmobiles, and struggle against the debilitating cold of winter. The animals experience both triumph and tragedy, as the law of this harsh land proves – only the strong survive.
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality and causing him to question his identity.
Hiroshima Mon Amour
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Lady Snowblood
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Hiroshima
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
This Transient Life
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk finds out, the young man becomes an assistant to a master sculptor, only to proceed to complicate matters with his affairs.
Here Is a Spring
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.
Filmography
as White Man
as Masakichi Ono
as Hachiro Ishimoto
as Omi-no-kami
as Ozawa Taicho
as Taichi Dôjima
as Kozo Hisamatsu
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)
as Professor Watanabe
as Shuhei Agata
as Yoshio Morikawa
as Assistant General Tokunaga
as Ryunosuke Tamaru
as Narrator (voice)
as Ankokuji
as Professor Kamiyama
as Tanuma
as Amaohka
as Kudo
as Evangelist
as Bunmei
as Salabad
as Tono
as Kokubo
as Lawyer
as Gishirō Tsukamoto
as Shogen Wakita
as Shinbei
as Mike Tachibana
as Inoue Chikugonokami
as Mitsuo Iwashita
as (voice)
as Mori
as Seiichiro Machida
as Nobuyuki Ishido
as Toru Kijima
as Riichirô Maejima
as Tsubaki
as Director Iwamoto
as Dr. Kato
as The Boss
as Asai
as Shuji Onoda
as Tatewaki Koriyama
as Gennosuke / Tesshin
as Genjirô Maruume
as Lord Matsudaira
as Nozawa
as Entomologist Niki Jumpei
as Eiichi Ishikawa
as Deong
as Danny Riquet
as Yamanami Keisuke
as Kamio Shume
as Shinzo Murakami
as Lui
as Shimano
as Kogoro Akechi
as Kogoro Akechi
as 里見
as Jun Mitani
as Hagiwara Yusa
as Ensign Asakura
as Monta
as Leutnant Guni Hanata
as Kitagawa
as Teacher Tamai
as Shinjiro Hirai
as Ryuji
as Saburo Tajima