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Eiji Okada

Birthday: Jun 13, 1920 Date of death: Sep 14, 1995
Place of birth: Chōshi, Chiba Prefecture,
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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

Woman in the Dunes
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Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Lady Snowblood
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Gishirō Tsukamoto
Rififi in Tokyo
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Danny Riquet

As an actor

Lady Snowblood Gishirō Tsukamoto
Woman in the Dunes Entomologist Niki Jumpei
Rififi in Tokyo Danny Riquet
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