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. 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. Selected filmography Onna no Kao (1949) Hana no Sugao (1949) Until We Meet Again (1950) – Tajima Saburo Shiroi yajû (1950) – Iwasaki Gozen reiji no shutugoku (1950) Kenjū no Mae ni Tatsu Haha (1950) Nakinureta ningyô (1951) – Ryûji Fūsetsu Nijūnen (1951) Kaze ni soyogu asi (Kouhen) (1951) – Mitsujiro Hirose Yamabiko Gakkō (1952) Asa no hamon (1952) – Kajigoro Mother (1952) – Shinjiro Boryoku (1952) Shinkū Chitai (1952) – Okamoto Haha wo Kou Uta (1952) Reimei hachigatsu jugo-nichi (1952) Himeyuri no Tō (1953) – Teacher Tamai Hiroshima (1953) – Kitagawa Miseraretaru Tamashii (1953) Wakaki Hi no Takuboku Kumo wa Tensai De Aru (1954) – Takuboku Ishikawa Okuman choja (1954) – Monta Hana to Hatō (1954) Ningen Gyorai Kaiten (1955) Koko ni Izumi Ari (1955) Hana no Yukue (1955) – Hiroshi Hamamura Gokumonchô (1955) – San'nosuke Tsuzuki Christ in Bronze (1955) Bōryokugai (1955) Kao no nai otoko (1955) – Masahiko Arisaka / Yamada Kenjû tai kenjû (1955) Choppu sensei (1956) Shonen tanteidan: Nijumenso no akuma (1956) – Kogoro Akechi Shonen tanteidan: Daiichibu yokaihakushi (1956) Kurama Tengu, Shirouma no Misshi (1956) Jun'ai Monogatari (1957) – Shitayama Dotanba (1957) Shonen tanteidan: Tetto no kaijin (1957) – Kogoro Akechi Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki (1957) Shingo juban-shobu (1959) – Shozaburo Masaki Hiroshima mon amour (1959) – Lui Shingo jûban shôbu: dai-ni-bu (1959) Shinran (1960) – Shiro Amagi Ôzora no muhômono (1960) Kaizoku bahansen (1960) Restoration Fire (1961) – Yamanami Keisuke Kengo tengu matsuri (1961) Rififi in Tokyo (1963) – Danny Riquet The Ugly American (1963) – Deong Kanojo to kare (1963) – Eiichi Ishikawa Woman in