Cast
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Acting
Cast
Heihachirō Ōkawa
Known for
Acting
Born
1905-09-09
From
Soka, Saitama, Japan
Died
1971-05-27
Also known as Henry Okawa, Ōkawa Heihachirō, Heihachirô 'Henry' Ôkawa
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)
★7.8
MOVIE1957
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Captain Kanematsu
★6.6
MOVIE1935
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
as Aoyama
★9.0
MOVIE1971
One of Those Things
as Kawasaki
★7.0
MOVIE1964
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Astronomer
★6.9
MOVIE1968
Destroy All Monsters
as Engineer
★6.0
MOVIE1935
Five Men in a Circus
as Kokichi
★7.2
MOVIE1935
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
as Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
★6.5
MOVIE1952
Geisha Girl
MOVIE1936
The Responsibility of Kissing
★7.1
MOVIE1962
Chûshingura
★6.7
MOVIE1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
★6.7
MOVIE1936
The Road I Travel with You
as Asaji Amanuma
★7.5
MOVIE1963
Interpol Code 8
as Quyen
MOVIE1954
Love Express
★6.4
MOVIE1958
The Wind Cannot Read
as Lieutenant Nakamura
★7.7
MOVIE1955
Floating Clouds
★6.4
MOVIE1957
The Mysterians
as Person at Board Meeting
★7.8
MOVIE1953
The Eagle of the Pacific
as (uncredited)
MOVIE1954
All of Myself
as Kadokura
★6.2
MOVIE1935
The Girl in the Rumor
as Shintaro
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Three Stripes in the Sun
as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
★8.0
MOVIE1942
The Man Who Waited
★6.4
MOVIE1951
Dancing Girl
as Kayama
★6.3
MOVIE1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two
★5.1
MOVIE1951
Tokyo File 212
MOVIE1934
Odoriko nikki
★6.3
MOVIE1942
Bouquet of the South Seas
as Harada, pilot
MOVIE1940
The Sisters' Agreement
as Hideo Nogami
★6.7
MOVIE1954
Ghost Man
MOVIE1962
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
★6.7
MOVIE1936
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
as Ogawa
MOVIE1940
Keshô yuki
★6.7
MOVIE1937
A Woman's Sorrows
★8.0
MOVIE1942
Sky of Hope
as Okada
★7.5
MOVIE1952
Lil's Return from Shanghai
as Takada
★8.0
MOVIE1941
Shanghai Moon
MOVIE1935
Drifting
as Sankichi
MOVIE1944
The Dawn of Freedom
as Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
MOVIE1934
Romantic and Crazy
as Count
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Marines, Let's Go
as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
★6.8
MOVIE1942
Wings of Victory
MOVIE1939
Blizzard Ronin
MOVIE1940
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
MOVIE1940
Wedding Day
★6.6
MOVIE1938
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
as Matsuzaki
★7.0
MOVIE1939
Numazu Officer School
★10.0
MOVIE1933
Tipsy Life
★7.0
MOVIE1952
A Ripple in a Morning
★8.0
MOVIE1939
Ichiyo Higuchi
★10.0
MOVIE1961
The Big Wave
as Yukio's Father
MOVIE1941
Mother of the Red Hands
★6.3
MOVIE1936
Brother and Sister
★10.0
MOVIE1939