Actor
Heihachirō Ōkawa
September 9, 1905 · Soka, Saitama, Japan
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).
Notable work
Often works with
Kamatari Fujiwara
6 titles together
Wife! Be Like a Rose!, Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro, The Road I Travel with You
Tamae Kiyokawa
5 titles together
The Road I Travel with You, A Woman's Sorrows, Morning's Tree-Lined Street
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Kaoru Itō
5 titles together
Wife! Be Like a Rose!, Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts, A Woman's Sorrows
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Kō Mihashi
5 titles together
The Girl in the Rumor, A Woman's Sorrows, Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Takashi Shimura
4 titles together
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, The Mysterians, Chûshingura
Minoru Takada
4 titles together
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, The Eagle of the Pacific, Learn from Experience, Part Two
Full filmography · 53
One of Those Things
as Kawasaki
1971
Destroy All Monsters
as Engineer
19686.9
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
as Astronomer
19647
Interpol Code 8
as Quyen
1963
Chûshingura
cast
19627.1
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
cast
1962
Marines, Let's Go
as Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
1961
The Big Wave
as Yukio's Father
1961
The Wind Cannot Read
as Lieutenant Nakamura
1958
The Mysterians
as Person at Board Meeting
19576.3
The Bridge on the River Kwai
as Captain Kanematsu
19577.8
Three Stripes in the Sun
as Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
1955