Eiji Okada
Birthday: 1920-06-13
Place of Birth: Choshi, Chiba, Japan
Biography: 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.
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Shinran, Part II
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Traffic Jam
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The Eleventh Hour
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The Yamabiko School
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Magnitude 7.9
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Restoration Fire
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Pretty Devil Yoko
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The Pirates
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Bullet Wound
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Take Me Away!
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At the End of the Clouds
A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots....
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Summer of the Lion Kings
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Fearless Opposition
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Kyukei no Koya
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The Killing Game
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The Earth is Born Again
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不倫 この愛が裁けますか
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
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Japanese Humanity and Justice
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An Edo Magistrate
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A Woman Embraced by a Ghost: Departures from the Dead
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Lady on 6th Street: Taste of Honey
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Scalpel
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The Rose Colored Two
The film is based on the theme song of the same name sung by Hashi Yukio....
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