Heihachirō Ōkawa
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 | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.6979 |
| Birthday | 1905-09-09 |
| Place of Birth | Soka, Saitama, Japan |
| Also Known As | Henry Okawa, Ōkawa Heihachirō, Heihachirô 'Henry' Ôkawa, Хэйхатиро Окава, Хэйхатироо Оокава, هیهیچیرو اوکاوا, |
1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
0/0
Part one of two.
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Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1942
The Man Who Waited
8/1
A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snoop...
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The Man Who Waited
1961
Marines, Let's Go
7/2
Following combat duty in Korea, a group of United States Marines (Tom Tryon, David Hedison and Tom Reese) are given a furlough in Japan.
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Marines, Let's Go
1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1939
Blizzard Ronin
0/0
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
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Blizzard Ronin
1939
Easy Alley
10/1
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Easy Alley
1940
Keshô yuki
0/0
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Keshô yuki
1954
Ghost Man
6.667/3
A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.
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Ghost Man
1936
The Road I Travel with You
6.667/9
Otherwise promising young man Asaji and his younger brother Yuji face blighted lives due of society's disapproval of their illegitmacy and déclassé fa...
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The Road I Travel with You
1938
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
6.6/10
Mr. Tsurujiro is a Japanese folk singer assisted by Ms. Tsuruhachi on the shamisen. The pair is popular, but he often nitpicks her music and so they s...
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Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
1935
The Girl in the Rumor
6.222/9
A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is...
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The Girl in the Rumor
1936
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
6.714/7
After some fruitless career hunting in downtown Tokyo, Chiyo accepts a job as a bar hostess in Shiba ward. Well away from glamorous Asakusa and Ginza,...
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Morning's Tree-Lined Street
1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
7.5/2
In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries...
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Lil's Return from Shanghai
1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
8/1
Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).
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Ichiyo Higuchi
1951
Tokyo File 212
5.143/7
A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a disturb...
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Tokyo File 212
1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two
6.333/6
Toyomi is pregnant -- and while Shintaro and Yurie are on their extended honeymoon, she bears his child, a girl named Kiyoko. She is supported in adve...
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Learn from Experience, Part Two
1951
Dancing Girl
6.364/11
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the famil...
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Dancing Girl
1933
Tipsy Life
10/1
In 1930s Japan, a beer seller and a struggling music student fall in love while chasing their dreams.
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Tipsy Life
1952
Geisha Girl
6.5/2
Two American G.I.s visiting Tokyo find themselves mixed up with espionage, a pretty flight attendant, a mad scientist, geisha girls, and a goofy magic...
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Geisha Girl
1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
6.556/9
Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in bars....
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Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
6.667/6
Wealthy young Toyomi and Shintaro are in love. However, Shintaro’s father is arranging for him to marry Yurie, the scion of an even wealthier family....
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Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
6.714/7
Young Hiroko’s conservative principles place her at odds with most modern women, as she has already submitted to her mother’s choice of man for any ma...
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A Woman's Sorrows
1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
7.179/14
Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs h...
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Wife! Be Like a Rose!
1942
Wings of Victory
6.75/4
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Wings of Victory
1935
Five Men in a Circus
6/6
A five member circus runs into problems while touring rural Japan.
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Five Men in a Circus
1942
Bouquet of the South Seas
6.25/4
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Bouquet of the South Seas
1944
The Dawn of Freedom
0/0
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...
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The Dawn of Freedom
1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
7.8/2358
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957
The Mysterians
6.385/61
In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to s...
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The Mysterians
1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
7/288
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
1958
The Wind Cannot Read
6.423/13
A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and...
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The Wind Cannot Read
1971
One of Those Things
9/1
A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a man...
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One of Those Things
1968
Destroy All Monsters
6.861/277
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Monsterland. Chaos erupts when a race of she-aliens kn...
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Destroy All Monsters
1955
Three Stripes in the Sun
7/4
A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.
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Three Stripes in the Sun
1940
Wedding Day
0/0
Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations of...
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Wedding Day
1961
The Big Wave
10/1
Yukio, a farm boy, and Toru, a fisherboy, live in a small Japanese village that is periodically threatened by a volcano on one side and tidal waves on...
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The Big Wave
1952
A Ripple in a Morning
7/2
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
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A Ripple in a Morning
1936
Brother and Sister
6.333/3
Ino tries to control Mon’s every move, but she becomes a fallen woman, having an affair with a student, Obata whereas her sister San remains a “good g...
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Brother and Sister
1935
Drifting
0/0
Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.
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Drifting
1962
Chûshingura
7.152/46
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura
1941
Shanghai Moon
8/1
It is presumed to be a lost film.
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Shanghai Moon
1955
Floating Clouds
7.701/107
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He do...
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Floating Clouds
1953
The Eagle of the Pacific
7.8/10
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war w...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
1941
Mother of the Red Hands
0/0
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone...
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Mother of the Red Hands
1942
Sky of Hope
8/1
What is marriage? Young couple in match-making wanted to know before they decide. They visited married couples of sisters and brothers. Love comedy...
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Sky of Hope
1939
Numazu Officer School
7/1
Japanese war movie
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Numazu Officer School
1934
Romantic and Crazy
0/0
In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty.
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Romantic and Crazy
1954
All of Myself
0/0
The daughter of a former Miss Universe winner finds success as a fashion model in Tokyo following the death of her fiancé.
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All of Myself
1963
Interpol Code 8
7.667/3
Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.
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Interpol Code 8
1940
The Sisters' Agreement
0/0
A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The fo...
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The Sisters' Agreement
1954
土曜日の天使
10/1
The story follows a dysfunctional family whose daily life is thrown into chaos when an English tutor from abroad moves into their home. Her presence a...
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土曜日の天使
1936
The Responsibility of Kissing
0/0
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