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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Known For

Onihei Hankachō

Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu

Hiroshima Mon Amour

Woman in the Dunes

The Face of Another

The Ugly American

The Yakuza

Yokomizo Seishi Series

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Mother