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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 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 and the entomologist Niki Junpei in Hiroshi Teshigahara’s 1964 film The Woman in the Dunes an adaptation of Kōbō Abe’s novel.