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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
September 9, 1905
Died
May 27, 1971
Place of Birth
Soka, Saitama, Japan
Also Known As
- Henry Okawa
- Ōkawa Heihachirō
- Heihachirô 'Henry' Ôkawa
- Хэйхатиро Окава
- Хэйхатироо Оокава
- هیهیچیرو اوکاوا
Heihachirō Ōkawa
0.9 Popularity
Biography
Heihachiro Okawa (Japanese: 大川 平八郎 Hepburn: Ōkawa Heihachirō, 9 September 1905 – 27 May 1971), also sometimes credited as Henry Okawa (ヘンリー大川), was a Japanese film actor active from the 1930s to 1971. With hopes of starting a business, he traveled to the United States in 1923 and studied at Columbia University. He also studied at the Paramount Studios acting school and eventually began working in Hollywood, appearing in films by Howard Hawks and William Wellman. He returned to Japan in 1933 and co-starred in the Photo Chemical Laboratories (PCL) film Horoyoi jinsei. He later appeared in foreign films under the name Henry Okawa. He is best known for Moyuru ōzora (1940), Dawn of Freedom (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951), Floating Clouds (1955) and The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957). (Wikkipedia)
Known For
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Kawasaki
One of Those Things
1971
6.9
Engineer
Destroy All Monsters
1968
7.0
Astronomer (uncredited)
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1964
7.0
Quyen
Interpol Code 8
1963
7.2
Chûshingura
1962
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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
6.0
Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
Marines, Let's Go
1961
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Yukio's Father
The Big Wave
1961
6.2
Lieutenant Nakamura
The Wind Cannot Read
1958
6.4
Person at Board Meeting
The Mysterians
1957
Credits
One of Those Things
as Kawasaki
1971
0.0
Destroy All Monsters
as Engineer
1968
6.9
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Astronomer (uncredited)
1964
7.0
Interpol Code 8
as Quyen
1963
7.0
Chûshingura
1962
7.2
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
0.0
Marines, Let's Go
as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
1961
6.0
The Big Wave
as Yukio's Father
1961
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The Wind Cannot Read
as Lieutenant Nakamura
1958
6.2
The Mysterians
as Person at Board Meeting
1957
6.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Captain Kanematsu
1957
7.8
Three Stripes in the Sun
as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
1955
7.0
Floating Clouds
1955
7.7
Ghost Man
1954
6.5
土曜日の天使
1954
0.0
All of Myself
as Kadokura
1954
0.0
The Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)
1953
7.6
Geisha Girl
1952
4.0
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
6.0
🎬
Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Takada
1952
7.0
Dancing Girl
as Kayama
1951
6.3
Tokyo File 212
1951
4.5
The Dawn of Freedom
as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
1944
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Wings of Victory
1942
6.3
Bouquet of the South Seas
as Harada, pilot
1942
5.0
The Man Who Waited
1942
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Sky of Hope
as Okada
1942
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Mother of the Red Hands
1941
0.0
Shanghai Moon
1941
0.0
A Sister's Promise
as Hideo Nogami
1940
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Wedding Day
1940
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Keshô yuki
1940
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
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Easy Alley
1939
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🎬
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
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Numazu Officer School
1939
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Blizzard Ronin
1939
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
as Matsuzaki
1938
6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.2
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
6.0
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
6.7
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as Ogawa
1936
6.7
The Road I Travel with You
as Asaji Amanuma
1936
6.3
Brother and Sister
1936
6.0
The Girl in the Rumor
as Shintaro
1935
5.9
Five Men in a Circus
as Kokichi
1935
5.4
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
1935
7.0
Drifting
as Sankichi
1935
0.0
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
as Aoyama
1935
6.4
Romantic and Crazy
as Count
1934
0.0
Tipsy Life
1933
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