Edogawa Rampo no bijo shirīzu
1977
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Acting
Eiji Okada
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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.
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Filmography
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Onihei Hankachō
1989
star 7.8
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as...
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
star 7.0
TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.
Oretachi no Tabi
1975
A milestone in Japanese teen drama, representing the 1970s. It questions the meaning of life, worries, and joys.
Woman in the Dunes
1964
star 8.2
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the r...
Spring Bell
1985
star 7.3
Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wi...
Lady Snowblood
1973
star 7.5
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These crim...
Crisis at Edo Castle - Angry Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu
1987
After the end of the reign of the second Shogun Hidetada, the country was still in turmoil. Meanwhile, Iemitsu,...
The Face of Another
1966
star 7.8
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his new doctor, but the mask starts altering...
Crazed Fruit
1981
star 5.7
A working class young man, Tetsuo, who distrusts all rich people, falls in love with a girl, Chika, from an aff...
Manhunt
1976
star 6.2
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the bea...
Assassination
1964
star 7.2
In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex gam...
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959
star 7.7
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated Fren...
August Without Emperor
1978
star 7.3
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...
Heat Wave
1991
star 5.9
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has...
The Yakuza
1974
star 7.2
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons h...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1973
star 7.2
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fi...
The Glacier Fox
1978
star 7.8
Director Koreyoshi Kurahara chronicles a year in the lives of Flep and Leila, two foxes living in Hokkaido, Jap...
Antarctica
1983
star 7.2
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarc...
Praying Mantis
1983
star 5.0
A man and a woman drift ashore after a typhoon. The man, dead, is an escaped perpetrator, and the woman, alive,...
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
star 9.0
This Transient Life
1970
star 7.4
Near a remote Buddhist monastery, a young man falls in love with his sister and gets her pregnant. After a monk...
Lullaby of the Earth
1976
star 6.4
The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly expo...
Utamaro's World
1977
star 5.6
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. T...
Here Is a Spring
1955
star 8.2
The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for...
Zatoichi's Conspiracy
1973
star 7.0
Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befrie...
Japanese Humanity and Justice
1977
star 7.0
When a mob boss retires under political pressure, his successor and yakuza family are tested to their limits as...
The Gate of Youth Part 2
1977
star 7.5
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
Samurai Spy
1965
star 6.4
Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of...
My Way
1974
star 6.0
Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dea...
Mother
1952
star 7.0
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
The Scent of Incense
1964
star 7.2
After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red...
Dog of Fortune
1979
star 5.7
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of...
ESPY
1974
star 5.4
Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations.
The Sands of Kurobe
1968
star 7.0
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transport...
Hiroshima
1953
star 7.5
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its eff...