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Eiji Okada (岡田 英次, Okada Eiji, 13 June 1920 – 14 September 1995) was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor.[1]

Eiji Okada
岡田 英次
Eiji Okada. taken in 1954.
Born	(1920-06-13)13 June 1920 Chiba, Japan
Died	14 September 1995(1995-09-14) (aged 75)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1946–1995
Spouse(s)	Aiko Wasa

Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais. In this film, Eiji Okada had to learn the screenplay phonetically because he didn't speak French. He is also known for playing the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara's 1964 film Woman in the Dunes, an adaptation of Kōbō Abe's novel. He was also second billed under Marlon Brando in the 1963 political thriller The Ugly American.

Okada was married to Aiko Wasa, with whom he ran a theatre company in Japan. He died on 14 September 1995 of heart failure, at the age of 75.[1]

Selected filmography

References

External links

• Eiji Okada at IMDb

На других языках

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- [en] Eiji Okada

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[ru] Окада, Эйдзи

Эйдзи Окада (яп. 岡田英次 Окада Эйдзи, 13 июня 1920 года, Тёси, префектура Тиба, Япония — 14 сентября 1995 года, Токио) — японский актёр театра и кино. Был одним из первых японских актёров послевоенного поколения, который получил международную известность, сыграв в таких фильмах, как «Хиросима любовь моя» режиссёра французской новой волны Алена Рене (1959) и «Женщина в песках» режиссёра японской новой волны Хироси Тэсигахары (1964)[1][2].

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