Eiji Okada
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Woman in the Dunes
as Entomologist Niki JumpeiA vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken...
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Lady Snowblood
as Gishirō TsukamotoYuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of...
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
as LuiThe deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this...
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The Face of Another
as The BossA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
as Shogen WakitaIn the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors,...
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The Yakuza
as TonoHarry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's...
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Heat Wave
as Masakichi OnoRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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Silence
as Inoue ChikugonokamiTwo Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread...
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The Sands of Kurobe
as uncreditedKitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps...
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Antarctica
as Ozawa TaichoTwo Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an...
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Samurai Spy
as Tatewaki KoriyamaYears of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke...
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Red Target
as Mike TachibanaA gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer...
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Kamikaze, the Adventurer
as uncreditedAn ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes...
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Mother
as Shinjiro HiraiA teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
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This Transient Life
as MoriNear a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her...
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The Eleventh Hour
as ShimanoBased on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s...
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Zatoichi's Conspiracy
as ShinbeiZatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many...
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Hiroshima
as KitagawaThe film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of...
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The Ugly American
as DeongAn intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation...
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Crazed Fruit
as Tôno, Chika's step father(東野保彦)A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl,...
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Manhunt
as uncreditedA tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is...
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White Beast
as uncreditedThe critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring...
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Assassination
as Lord MatsudairaAssassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...
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August without Emperor
as Assistant General TokunagaTaking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese...
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Spring Bell
as Hachiro IshimotoRokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum...
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Lost Love
as Professor KamiyamaAt a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent...
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Sanshiro Sugata
as Gennosuke / TesshinRemake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro...
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Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy
as uncreditedSheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.
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Blood Type: Blue
as uncreditedUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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A Billionaire
as MontaAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Magnitude 7.9
as Professor WatanabeA large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored.
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Utamaro's World
as TanumaUtamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late...
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Lullaby of the Earth
as EvangelistThe story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who...
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A Ripple in a Morning
as uncreditedAtsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in...
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The Strangling
as Yoshio MorikawaThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company...
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Tower of Lilies
as Teacher TamaiA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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Vixen
as Nobuyuki IshidoMichi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school,...
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The X from Outer Space
as Dr. KatoThe spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the...
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ESPY
as SalabadThe film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog,...
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She and He
as Eiichi IshikawaAs her husband Eiichi becomes more entangled in his life as businessman, Naoko looks for ways to...
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At the End of the Clouds
as uncreditedA movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Part 2
as uncreditedThe second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.
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Rififi in Tokyo
as Danny RiquetVan Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...
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Frozen River
as uncreditedA young doctor starts working at a mental hospital in the Yokohama region and falls in love with...
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The Scarlet Camellia
as Genjirô MaruumeA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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The Scent of Incense
as NozawaAfter her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her...
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Shinran, Part II
as uncreditedContinuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji...
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Hawk of the North
as uncreditedDuring the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close....
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Here Is a Spring
as uncreditedThe story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to...
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The Story of Pure Love
as uncreditedJunai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling...
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Love and Faith
as AnkokujiSen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal...
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Secret Information
as Toru KijimaA gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and...
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The Stairway to the Distant Past
as White ManBroke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to...
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Till We Meet Again
as Saburo TajimaSaburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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The Stormy Era of Twenty Years
as uncreditedThe Stormy Era of Twenty Years
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Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
as uncreditedThe story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
as uncreditedThese are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is...
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Dog of Fortune
as Shuhei AgataFrom Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home....
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Records of Bloodshed
as Seiichiro MachidaPost World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military....
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Love in the North
as uncreditedJapanese film based on the song by Harumi Miyako.
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Praying Mantis
as Taichi DôjimaA man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and...
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The Alaska Story
as AmaohkaA Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
as uncreditedThe adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his...
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Take Me Away!
as Ryunosuke TamaruKyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was...
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Vacuum Zone
as uncreditedJust before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served...
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
as uncreditedThe film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo...
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Pretty Devil Yoko
as AsaiEasily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in...
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Karate Sanshiro
as uncreditedShunsuke Washimi, a member of the karate club, misunderstands the affections of Chiyo, a lodging...
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Weeping Doll
as RyujiA Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.
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Restoration Fire
as Yamanami KeisukeMegastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic...
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Five Paths to Revenge
as Jun MitaniThe orphaned son of a count who was assassinated by his subordinates in a conspiracy during the...
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The Glacier Fox
as Narrator (voice)Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in northern...
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Portrait of Chieko
as TsubakiTakamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an...
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Shonen Tanteidan: Kabu to Mushi no Yoki
as Kogoro AkechiA man with many disguises uses robotic beetles, man-made monsters and other devices to try and...
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Hirado Pirates
as uncreditedIn the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado,...
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Gambler's Farewell
as Riichirô MaejimaThe story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading...
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Festival of Swordsmen
as Kamio ShumeDuring the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most...
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Tokyo Earthquake Magnitude 8.1
as uncreditedA made for TV movie that would be loosely remade as Magnitude 7.9 or DEATHQUAKE
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Showdown in Blood
as uncreditedHayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought...
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My Way
as LawyerBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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Rebellion of Japan
as uncreditedSuzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist...
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The Chop Professor
as uncreditedJunpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop"....
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The Pirates
as Shinzo MurakamiFinding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships)...
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The Yamabiko School
as uncreditedA story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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I Am a Cat
as BunmeiNakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens...
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Bullet Wound
as uncreditedYuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between...
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Summer of the Lion Kings
as uncreditedKatsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from...
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The End of a Day
as Leutnant Guni HanataMilitary doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl....
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
as uncreditedAoi Shingo, a son of the Shogun, continues his travels seeking to further his mastery of the...
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Traffic Jam
as uncreditedA hard working salaryman takes off five days from his busy job and sets off with his wife and...
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Permanent Blue
as uncreditedIn a fishing town by the Seto Sea, a student discovers a woman motionless on the beach and takes...
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A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
as uncreditedThe epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the...
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Iron Fiend
as Kogoro AkechiFourth film in the Boy Detectives Club series.
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Agi, the Fury of Evil
as Omi-no-kamiA samurai warrior is terrorised by the demon Agi.
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Onihei Hankachō
as uncreditedHasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates...
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Oretachi no Tabi
as uncreditedA milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life,...
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Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
as uncreditedAfter the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil....
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