Eiji Okada

    Eiji Okada

    June 13, 1920 (104 years old) in Chลshi, Chiba Prefecture, Japan

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Eiji Okada (13 June 1920 Chลshi, Chiba, Japan โ€“ 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 Kลbล 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.โ€‹

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    Onihei HankachลOnihei Hankachล
    Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirฤซzuEdogawa Rampo no bijo shirฤซzu
    The YakuzaThe Yakuza
    Woman in the DunesWoman in the Dunes
    Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa IemitsuCrisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu

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