Eiji Okuda

Eiji Okuda has had the kind of career that refuses to settle. Born in Kasugai, Aichi in 1950, he built his name as an actor who could play a magnetic leading man one year and a shabby, unlovable middle-aged man the next, and he took Best Actor at the Blue Ribbon Awards in 1995. Most performers would have banked that and stayed put. He went behind the camera instead, and the directing was serious enough to win the top prize at the Montreal World Film Festival rather than reading as a vanity project. His household is a workshop of makers: an essayist wife, one daughter an acclaimed actor, another a director. What impresses me most is the stamina, though. He is in his seventies and still working.

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Name (English)

Eiji Okuda

Name (Japanese)

奥田瑛二

Reading

おくだ えいじ

Born

March 18, 1950 (age 76)

Origin

Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan

Height

175 cm

Occupation

actor / film director / seiyū / film actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Tiger

Blood type

AB

Agency

ゼロ・ピクチュアズ

University

Meiji Gakuin University

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Actor

Spouse

安藤和津

Works summary

Appearances

338 (1960–2027)

By year

1960: 1, 1969: 1, 1973: 1, 1975: 1, 1976: 1, 1977: 1, 1978: 3, 1979: 4, 1980: 6, 1981: 6, 1982: 6, 1983: 6, 1984: 8, 1985: 7, 1986: 14, 1987: 7, 1988: 12, 1989: 8, 1990: 6, 1991: 5, 1992: 7, 1993: 6, 1994: 5, 1995: 9, 1996: 6, 1997: 6, 1998: 6, 1999: 4, 2000: 2, 2001: 4, 2002: 7, 2003: 2, 2004: 6, 2005: 2, 2006: 3, 2007: 5, 2008: 2, 2009: 6, 2010: 4, 2011: 5, 2012: 7, 2013: 7, 2014: 3, 2015: 7, 2016: 9, 2017: 4, 2018: 8, 2019: 7, 2020: 1, 2021: 6, 2022: 3, 2023: 6, 2024: 5, 2025: 4, 2026: 5, 2027: 1

Debut work

ゴールデンボーイズ - 1960笑売人ブルース

Filmography / notable works

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eiji%20Okuda
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A5%A5%E7%94%B0%E7%91%9B%E4%BA%8C
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1303674

Tags

• Aichi Prefecture
• actor
• film director
• seiyū

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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