Heihachirō Ōkawa
Known for: Acting
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)
Filmography
Film
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Captain Kanematsu
1957
Film
Destroy All Monsters
Engineer
1968
Film
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
Astronomer
1964
Film
The Mysterians
Person at Board Meeting
1957
Film
One of Those Things
Kawasaki
1971
Film
Chûshingura
1962
Film
Floating Clouds
1955
Film
Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts
Aoyama
1935
Film
The Big Wave
Yukio's Father
1961
Film
Tokyo File 212
1951
Film
Three Stripes in the Sun
Father Yoshida (as Henry Okawa)
1955
Film
The Wind Cannot Read
Lieutenant Nakamura
1958
Film
The Eagle of the Pacific
(uncredited)
1953
Film
Wings of Victory
1942
Film
Sky of Hope
Okada
1942
Film
The History of Love
1955
Film
Ghost Man
1954
Film
Interpol Code 8
Quyen
1963
Film
Hikari to kage (Zenpen)
1940
Film
Dancing Girl
Kayama
1951
Film
Geisha Girl
1952
Film
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
Film
Husband Comes Home Every Suturday
1954
Film
Numazu Officer School
1939
Film
Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro
Matsuzaki
1938
Love Express
1954
Film
Wedding Day
1940
Film
Keshô yuki
1940
Ichiyo Higuchi
1939
Film
The Dawn of Freedom
Sub Corporal Ikema Ishihara
1944
Film
The Girl in the Rumor
Shintaro
1935
Film
Marines, Let's Go
Yoshida (Hotel Manager)
1961
Film
The Sisters' Agreement
Hideo Nogami
1940
Film
Tipsy Life
1933
Film
Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1
1962
Film
Five Men in a Circus
Kokichi
1935
Film
Romantic and Crazy
Count
1934
Film
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
Film
Wife! Be Like a Rose!
Seiji (Kimiko's boyfriend)
1935
Film
A Ripple in a Morning
1952
Film
All of Myself
Kadokura
1954
Film
Lil's Return from Shanghai
Takada
1952
Film
Bouquet of the South Seas
Harada, pilot
1942
Film
The Responsibility of Kissing
1936
Film
Drifting
Sankichi
1935
Film
Morning's Tree-Lined Street
Ogawa
1936
Film
The Man Who Waited
1942
Film
Shanghai Moon
1941
Film
Mother of the Red Hands
1941
Film
The Road I Travel with You
Asaji Amanuma
1936
Film
Easy Alley
1939
Film
Brother and Sister
1936
Film
Blizzard Ronin
1939
Film
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Odoriko nikki
1934