Heihachirō Ōkawa
Birthday: 1905-09-09
Place of Birth: Soka, Saitama, Japan
Biography: Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)
Movies
The Man Who Waited
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacatio...
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Marines, Let's Go
Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom R...
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Blizzard Ronin
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....
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Ghost Man
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Ki...
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The Road I Travel with You
The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki...
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other....
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The Girl in the Rumor
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Thei...
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of trav...
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Bac...
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Tokyo File 212
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the ...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
Part 2 of a 2-part romance (first part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan...
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Dancing Girl
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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Tipsy Life
The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-h...
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Geisha Girl
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant...
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly...
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Learn from Experience, Part One
Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here...
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A Woman's Sorrows
Young Hiroko’s (Takako Irie) conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as sh...
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mothe...
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Five Men in a Circus
The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rura...
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The Dawn of Freedom
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
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The Mysterians
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire v...
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and...
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The Wind Cannot Read
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They sta...
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One of Those Things
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidabl...
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Destroy All Monsters
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...
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Three Stripes in the Sun
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falli...
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Wedding Day
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accep...
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The Big Wave
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically thre...
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A Ripple in a Morning
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in pos...
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Brother and Sister
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a stude...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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Mother of the Red Hands
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or ...
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Sky of Hope
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited marr...
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All of Myself
The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following th...
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Interpol Code 8
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas....
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A Sister's Promise
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a docto...
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土曜日の天使
The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor...
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