Eiji Okada


This handsome Japanese leading man starred in several European and Hollywood productions. Okada is best known for his performances as an architect who has a brief affair with a French film actress in Alain Resnais' "Hiroshima, Mon Amour" (1959), as an Asian revolutionary opposite Marlon Brando in "The Ugly American" (1963) and as an entomologist who discovers the "Woman in the Dunes" (1964). He devoted most of his time in the 1970s to a theater company he founded with his wife Aiko Wasa.

  • Born:
    June 13, 1920 in Japan
  • Died:
    September 14, 1995.
  • Job Titles:
    Actor, Miner, Traveling salesman
Milestones
  • 1942 Served in Japanese army
  • 1950 Feature film debut, "Until the Day We Meet Again"
  • 1959 Breakthrough feature performance, "Hiroshima, Mon Amour"
  • 1963 Appeared opposite Marlon Brando in "The Ugly American"
  • 1964 Starred in "Woman in the Dunes"
  • Appeared in Japanese films in 1950s
  • Born and raised in Japan
  • Founded theater company with wife Aiko Wasa

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