Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

128

Gender

Male

Birthday

1950-03-18 (75 years old)

Place of Birth

Kasugai, Aichi, Japan

Also Known As

奥田瑛二
Eiji Okuda

Eiji Okuda

Biography

Eiji Okuda (奥田瑛二 Okuda Eiji, born 18 March 1950) is a Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in Sen no Rikyu. He won the award for best actor at the 37th Blue Ribbon Awards for Like a Rolling Stone.

Known For

7.5%

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

Aug 25, 2012

5.6%

Detective Chinatown 3

Feb 12, 2021

5.6%

Detective Chinatown 3

Feb 12, 2021

6.8%

If Cats Disappeared from the World

May 14, 2016

5.4%

Yamato

Dec 17, 2005

7.3%

One in a Hundred Thousand

Nov 27, 2020

5.9%

The Sea Is Watching

Jul 27, 2002

6.1%

An Adolescent

Sep 28, 2001

7.5%

64: Part 1

May 7, 2016

5.4%

Black Kiss

Oct 1, 2004

7.4%

64: Part 2

Jun 1, 2016

6.7%

Diner

Jul 5, 2019

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Acting

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Chameleon

2025

Diary of a Surgical Resident: Madoka as Shigeji Kakuta

2024		Kanzen Muzai as Hirayama Satoshi
2024		Black Jack
2024		Stay Mum as Kozo Satoya
2024		The Sound of Vietnam as Hideo Iwasawa

2023		A Spoiling Rain as Sawai Seiji
2023		Wheels and Axle as Yoshio
2023		Kumo to Saru no Kazoku

2022		Goodbye Cruel World
2022		Akira and Akira as Kazuo Haneda
2022		シネマスコーレを解剖する。　コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
2022		Chicken Phoenix

2021		99.9 Criminal Lawyer: The Movie as Shuichi Otomo
2021		1921
2021		Noukagaku Bengoshi Kaidou Azusa Doubt as Kashima Kentaro
2021		Detective Chinatown 3 as Watanabe Masaru's father
2021		Detective Chinatown 3

2020		One in a Hundred Thousand as Haruo Sakuragi
2020		Peaceful Death

2019		Haru: Sogo Shosha no Onna
2019		Diner as Coffie
2019		An Artist of the Floating World as Matsuda
2019		Les Misérables
2019		The Mother Returns? AI's Will as Noda Seiji

2018		Dare to Stop Us as Kinshiro Kuzui
2018		Falling Camellia
2018		Born Bone Born as Nobutsuna
2018		a e i o u
2018		Unexploded Bomb
2018		スペシャルドラマ必殺仕事人

2017		巨悪は眠らせない特捜検事の標的 as 羽瀬喜一東京地検特捜部・副部長
2017		Flat Broke Mom as Toshiaki Tenma
2017		Black Leather Notebook as Kenji Narabayashi

2016		The Old Capital
2016		Death on Gokumon Island as Ryouzen
2016		Prison Gate Island as Priest Ryonen
2016		Cold Case ~Shinjitsu no Tobira~
2016		Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor as Kiichi Haze
2016		Destiny-Like Love as Fukami Yoshitaka
2016		64: Part 2 as Arakida
2016		If Cats Disappeared from the World as Postman's Father
2016		64: Part 1 as Arakida
2016		99.9 Criminal Lawyer as Shuichi Otomo（大友修一）

2015		Blowing in the Winds of Vietnam as Tamio Koizumi
2015		Blood Bead
2015		Keisei Saimin no Otoko as Iwashita Kiyochika
2015		This Country’s Sky
2015		Reed of Glass as Kiichiro Koda
2015		Burning Flower

2013		Yokohama Story as Yoshinori Tanabe
2013		Before the Vigil
2013		Yae's Sakura as Shōzan Sakuma

2012		Villain
2012		Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins as Aritomo Yamagata
2012		Dirty Hearts as Coronel Watanabe
2012		修羅の花道2
2012		修羅の花道

2011		Majutsu wa Sasayaku
2011		The Tempest as Son Shishi
2011		Milocrorze: A Love Story as Nakyamura

2010		Lost Paradise in Tokyo as Soichi Komada
2010		300 Million
2010		宿命1969-2010～ワンス・アポン・ア・タイム・イン・東京～

2009

Be Sure to Share as Tetsuji Kita

2008

Garden of the Wind as Tatsuya Futakami

2007

Dear Father as Tsuyama

2006

A Long Walk as Detective Iwai

2005		Yamato
2005		Wet Red Thread

2004		Déracine as Jouji
2004		Revival Blues as Yosuke
2004		Black Kiss as Inspector Minezaki
2004		Runin: Banished
2004		Keijirō Engawa Nikki as Mamushino Yoshitsugu
2004		Kamachi as Shuichi Yamada

2003

Sutegoro: The Three Kajiwara Brothers' Turbulent Showa History

2002		Through the Night
2002		The Sea Is Watching as Ginji
2002		Bastoni: The Stick Handlers
2002		Snowland Revisited as Kunio Shibano
2002		北の捜査線　小樽港署

2001		An Adolescent as Tomokawa
2001		Jesus is My Boss as Toshio Shima

1999

Minazuki

1998

Pride as Ichirou Kiyose

1997		Body and Soul
1997		A Story of Modern Chivalry as Katsumi Koba
1997		A Yakuza in Love as Kenichi Tasaka
1997		Onibi: The Fire Within as Myojin

1996		Arigatou
1996		The Wicked Reporter 3: The One That Got Away
1996		Himawari as 赤松元基
1996		Apron Stage

1995		Bad Guy Beach as Father
1995		See You at the Campground
1995		Kitanai yatsu
1995		Last Friends
1995		Deep River as Otsu

1994		The Wicked Reporter 2: The Rebirth of Horserace Betting as Matsuzaki
1994		Like a Rolling Stone
1994		Hana no Ran

1993		The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993		The Wicked Reporter

1992		Luminous Moss as Ishikawa
1992		Investigation of a Typical Love as Detective

1991		Shabondama
1991		The Pianist
1991		Goaisatsu

1990

Shikibu monogatari as Toyoichi Otomo

1989

Death of a Tea Master as Honkakubo

1988

Dakishimetai!

1987		松田聖子のスイート・メモリーズ
1987		Bedtime Eyes

1986		The Sea and Poison as Suguro
1986		金曜日には花を買って
1986		Beyond the Shining Sea as Aro Imaizumi
1986		Surgical Designs in Flames

1985

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness as Jack (voice)

1984		The Cold-Hearted Sea
1984		水曜ドラマ宮本武蔵 as 本位田又八
1984		Oshin

1982

The Last Hero as Muneyuki Ogata

1981

Asshii-tachi no machi

1980

May Love Be Restored as Seijun Kunugida

1979		No More Easy Life as Hashimoto
1979		Love Me Tenderly, Love Me Wildly

1976

Enban Sensou Bankid as Noboru Tenma / Bankid Pegasus

Directing

2013

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi as Director

2007

Out of the Wind as Director

2006

A Long Walk as Director

2004

Runin: Banished as Director

2001

An Adolescent as Director

Production

2014

0.5 mm as Executive Producer

2001

An Adolescent as Producer

1996

The Wicked Reporter 3: The One That Got Away as Executive Producer

Writing

2013

Case of Kyoko, Case of Shuichi as Screenplay

2007

Out of the Wind as Writer

2006

A Long Walk as Story