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Heihachirō Ōkawa
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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…
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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)
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Heihachirō Ōkawa's Filmography
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One of Those Things
as Kawasaki
Destroy All Monsters
as Engineer
King of the Raccoon Dogs
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Astronomer
Interpol Code 8
as Quyen
Chûshingura
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
Marines, Let's Go
as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
The Big Wave
as Yukio's Father
The Wind Cannot Read
as Lieutenant Nakamura
The Mysterians
as Person at Board Meeting
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Captain Kanematsu
Three Stripes in the Sun
as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
The History of Love
Floating Clouds
Ghost Man
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
No Poster
Love Express
All of Myself
as Kadokura
The Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)
Geisha Girl
A Ripple in a Morning
Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Takada
Dancing Girl
as Kayama
Tokyo File 212
The Dawn of Freedom
as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
Wings of Victory
Bouquet of the South Seas
as Harada, pilot
The Man Who Waited
Sky of Hope
as Okada
Mother of the Red Hands
Shanghai Moon
The Sisters' Agreement
as Hideo Nogami
Wedding Day
Keshô yuki
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
Easy Alley
No Poster
Ichiyo Higuchi
Numazu Officer School
Blizzard Ronin
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
as Matsuzaki
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Learn from Experience, Part One
A Woman's Sorrows
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as Ogawa
The Responsibility of Kissing
The Road I Travel with You
as Asaji Amanuma
Brother and Sister
The Girl in the Rumor
as Shintaro
Five Men in a Circus
as Kokichi
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
Drifting
as Sankichi
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
as Aoyama
Romantic and Crazy
as Count
No Poster
Odoriko nikki
