
Eiji Okuda
Acting
Biography
Eiji Okuda (奥田瑛二 Okuda Eiji, born 18 March 1950) is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in Sen no Rikyu. He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awards for Like a Rolling Stone.
Born: March 18, 1950
Place of Birth: Kasugai, Aichi, Japan
Known For

Born Bone Born
A visibly pregnant Yuko returns home to find her family still grappling with the recent passing of her mother, Emiko, while her father becomes increasingly withdrawn and her older brother hopelessly combative.

宿命1969-2010~ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・東京~

Reed of Glass
Setsuko Koda is a woman who is married to her mother's ex-lover. Events unfold as her husband Kiichiro is involved in a car accident as Setsuko revisits her past while trying to help a little girl facing abuse.

Unexploded Bomb
A press conference is held by a large electrical manufacturer. The press conference discusses improper accounting by the company of 150 billion yen. Finance Consultant Ryo Koga manipulates the CEO of the electrical manufacturer. Yumiko Kobori of investigation unit 2 suspects fraud and feels it's not right that the company was able to avoid delisting on the stock market exchange. At that time, the head of the management audit department commits suicide. Shortly afterwards, Ryo Koga secretly meets with Shozo Higashida. Yumiko Kobori doubts whether the man committed suicide. Who is Ryo Koga ?

Kanzen Muzai
A lawyer is selected to be in charge of a retrial for a case surrounding the abduction and murder of a girl in Kagawa Prefecture 21 years prior. At around the same time, another kidnapping case arises in which a young girl is also abducted with no charges being filled, making Chisa one of the victims. With this, she sets foot in her hometown of Kagawa for the first time in 10 years and, with the help of her colleague, reinvestigates the incident that had occurred at the time, where there is a high possibility that the perpetrator was responsible for the same incident, having Chisa confront the suspect who may have once tried to kill her in order to uncover the truth behind the incident.

Romantics Anonymous
A brilliant chocolatier who's afraid of making eye contact meets an heir who can't touch others — but somehow, they're immune to each other.

The Old Capital
Chieko Sanda has operated a dry goods store in Kyoto for the past 20 years. Her family has owned the store for generations. Chieko is conflicted on whether her daughter Mai will take over her position with the changing of times. Mai is a college student and has not decided whether to take another job or take over the dry goods store. Meanwhile, Mitsuko Nakata runs a forestry in the outskirts of Kyoto. Mitsuko is Chieko Sanda’s twin sister, but they were separated at an early age. Mitsuko is in serious financial difficulties. Mituko's daughter, Yui, has talent in art and she goes to France. There, Yui feels a sense of powerlessness. Mitsuko notices and goes to Paris to see her daughter. Mai travels to Paris to take part in an event to show Japanese culture.

Oshin
Oshin comes from a family of poor rice farmers. Her father and brother must work in the fields and her grandmother and mother, who is expecting another child, barely have enough to eat. In order to make ends meet for her family, 7-year-old Oshin gives up school and decides to become a servant in the household of a wealthy family, where she faces trials and tribulation beyond her worst fears.

Dear Father
Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young itamae (cook for Japanese dishes) struggles his life, love and work while the long-lasted ryotei and the beloved old town face the change to survive the time. This heartwarming drama shows the intimate relationship of the community that has been lost nowadays, asks what the most important things in your life is, and tells how difficult it is to make a decision. The story is told in the form of a letter from him to his unknown father with lots of humor and love.

Falling Camellia
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife wish was for him to go back to his clan.
Filmography
as Kenji Kuroiwa
as Shigeji Kakuta
as Hirayama Satoshi
as Kozo Satoya
as Hideo Iwasawa
as Seiji Sawai
as Yoshio
as Kazuo Haneda
as Shuichi Otomo
as Moroku Shukichi = The Fixer
as Kashima Kentaro
as Watanabe Masaru's father
as Haruo Sakuragi
as Coffie
as Matsuda
as Noda Seiji
as Kinshiro Kuzui
as Nobutsuna
as 羽瀬喜一 東京地検特捜部・副部長
as Toshiaki Tenma
as Kenji Narabayashi
as Ryouzen
as Priest Ryonen
as Fukami Yoshitaka
as Arakida
as Postman's Father
as Arakida
as Shuichi Otomo
as Tamio Koizumi
as Shuji Tokita
as Iwashita Kiyochika
as Kiichiro Koda
as Yoshinori Tanabe
as Shōzan Sakuma
as Aritomo Yamagata
as Coronel Watanabe
as Son Shishi
as Nakyamura
as Soichi Komada
as Tetsuji Kita
as Tatsuya Futakami
as Tsuyama
as Detective Iwai
as Jouji
as Yosuke
as Inspector Minezaki
as Mamushino Yoshitsugu
as Shuichi Yamada
as Ginji
as AV company president
as Kunio Shibano
as Tomokawa
as Toshio Shima
as Norio Suwa
as Ichirou Kiyose
as Katsumi Koba
as Kenichi Tasaka
as Myojin
as 赤松元基
as Father
as Otsu
as Ishikawa
as Detective
as Toyoichi Otomo
as Honkakubo
as Suguro
as Aro Imaizumi
as Jack (voice)
as 本位田又八
as Muneyuki Ogata
as Seijun Kunugida
as Hashimoto
as Noboru Tenma / Bankid Pegasus