From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia 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 bestremembered roles include Lui him in French in the film Hiroshima mon amour 1959 directed by Alain Resnais and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigaharas Woman in the Dunes 1964 an adaptation of Kōbō Abes 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 Description above from the Wikipedia article Eiji Okada licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia