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Eiji Okada

1920 - 1995

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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. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eiji Okada has received more than 179,756 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Eiji Okada is the 3,381st most popular actor (down from 3,183rd in 2019), the 1,064th most popular biography from Japan (down from 987th in 2019) and the 55th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 180k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.49

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Eiji Okada ranks 3,381 out of 13,578. Before him are Tim Blake Nelson, Amanda Tapping, Dawn Addams, William Levy, Jason Flemyng, and Tonie Marshall. After him are Tom Baker, Mackenyu, Ellen Terry, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Mae Murray, and Taryn Power.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Eiji Okada ranks 245. Before him are Michel Audiard, Lygia Clark, Werner Klemperer, Jadwiga Piłsudska, Nilde Iotti, and Tony Randall. After him are Julien Ries, Heleno de Freitas, Paul Mebus, Pierre Poujade, Rudolf Kárpáti, and Nils Bohlin. Among people deceased in 1995, Eiji Okada ranks 175. Before him are Robert Monroe, Esmat Dowlatshahi, Butterfly McQueen, Henri Laborit, Franco Fabrizi, and Kalpana Datta. After him are Gavriil Kachalin, Sterling Morrison, Olga Taussky-Todd, Agustín Gaínza, Julián Berrendero, and Madalyn Murray O'Hair.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Eiji Okada ranks 1,064 out of 6,245. Before him are Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), Kyusaku Ogino (1882), Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (1962), Rentarō Mikuni (1923), Kiyotake Kawaguchi (1892), and Yoshinori Shigematsu (1930). After him are Yoshitomo Nara (1959), Peter Shirayanagi (1928), Takeshi Urata (1947), Ayumi Hamasaki (1978), Shoji Nishio (1927), and Takayuki Kuwata (1941).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Eiji Okada ranks 55. Before him are Tōru Furuya (1953), Ken Ogata (1937), Norio Wakamoto (1945), So Yamamura (1910), Kazuhiko Inoue (1954), and Rentarō Mikuni (1923). After him are Minoru Chiaki (1917), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Tadanobu Asano (1973), Ryūsei Nakao (1951), Unshō Ishizuka (1951), and Ikue Ōtani (1965).

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