Heihachirō Ōkawa
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)
Personal info
Gender
Male
Birthday
1905-09-09
Place of birth
Sōka, Saitama, Japan
Images
Cast
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
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The Man Who Waited
1942
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Marines, Let's Go
1961
6.00
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
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Blizzard Ronin
1939
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Easy Alley
1939
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Keshô yuki
1940
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Tipsy Life
1933
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A Woman's Sorrows
1937
6.70
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
6.00
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.20
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
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Tokyo File 212
1951
4.50
Geisha Girl
1952
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Ghost Man
1954
6.50
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1935
6.80
Five Men in a Circus
1935
5.40
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1935
7.00
The Girl in the Rumor
1935
5.90
The Road I Travel with You
1936
6.30
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1936
6.70
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1938
6.30
Bouquet of the South Seas
1942
5.00
Wings of Victory
1942
6.30
The Dawn of Freedom
1944
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Dancing Girl
1951
6.30
Lil's Return from Shanghai
1952
7.00
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
7.81
The Mysterians
1957
6.40
The Wind Cannot Read
1958
6.20
Destroy All Monsters
1968
6.87
One of Those Things
1971
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Three Stripes in the Sun
1955
7.00
Wedding Day
1940
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The Big Wave
1961
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A Ripple in a Morning
1952
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Brother and Sister
1936
6.00
Drifting
1935
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Chûshingura
1962
7.28
Shanghai Moon
1941
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Floating Clouds
1955
7.70
The Eagle of the Pacific
1953
7.56
Mother of the Red Hands
1941
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Sky of Hope
1942
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Numazu Officer School
1939
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Romantic and Crazy
1934
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All of Myself
1954
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