Okada Eiji

Okada Eiji (岡田英次) was born on June 13, 1920. Okada Eiji movies and tv shows: Nankyoku Monogatari 1983 (Japan), Deathquake 1980 (Japan), August Without Emperor 1978 (Japan), Lullaby of the Earth 1976 (Japan), I Am a Cat 1975 (Japan)...

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First Name: Eiji

Family Name: Okada

Native Name: 岡田英次

Nationality: Japanese

Gender: Male

Born: June 13, 1920

Eiji Okada was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial 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 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais, and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second-billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American.
Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theater company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.
(Source: Wikipedia)