Heihachirō Ōkawa

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)

  • Title: Heihachirō Ōkawa
  • Popularity: 2.264
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-09-09
  • Place of Birth: Sōka, Saitama, Japan
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  • Also Known As: Henry Okawa, Ōkawa Heihachirō, Heihachirô 'Henry' Ôkawa, Хэйхатиро Окава, Хэйхатироо Оокава
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Heihachirō Ōkawa Movies

  • 1940
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    Hikari to kage (Zenpen)

    Hikari to kage (Zenpen)

    1 1940 HD

    Part one of two.

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  • 1942
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    The Man Who Waited

    The Man Who Waited

    1 1942 HD

    A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

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  • 1961
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    Marines, Let's Go

    Marines, Let's Go

    6 1961 HD

    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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  • 1962
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    Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

    Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

    1 1962 HD

    1962 Japanese movie

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  • 1939
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    Blizzard Ronin

    Blizzard Ronin

    1 1939 HD

    The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

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  • 1939
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    Easy Alley

    Easy Alley

    1 1939 HD

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  • 1940
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    Keshô yuki

    Keshô yuki

    1 1940 HD

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  • 1933
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    Tipsy Life

    Tipsy Life

    1 1933 HD

    The film generally regarded as Japan’s first true musical was also the first film made entirely in-house by the pioneering studio P.C.L., a...

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  • 1937
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    A Woman's Sorrows

    A Woman's Sorrows

    6.7 1937 HD

    Japanese domestic drama.

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  • 1937
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    Learn from Experience, Part One

    Learn from Experience, Part One

    6 1937 HD

    Part 1 of a 2-part romance based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. The central character here is Toyomi (played by Takako IRIE, star of...

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  • 1937
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    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    Learn from Experience, Part Two

    6.2 1937 HD

    Part 2 of a 2-part romance (fist part - Kafuku zempen) based on a story by noted author Kikuchi Kan. In the second half, we discover that Toyomi is...

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  • 1939
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    Ichiyo Higuchi

    Ichiyo Higuchi

    1 1939 HD

    Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

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  • 1951
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    Tokyo File 212

    Tokyo File 212

    4.5 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Geisha Girl

    Geisha Girl

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1954
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    Ghost Man

    Ghost Man

    6.5 1954 HD

    A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

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  • 1935
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    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

    6.8 1935 HD

    Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

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  • 1935
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    Five Men in a Circus

    Five Men in a Circus

    5.4 1935 HD

    The main focus is on the 5 member band of a small circus as it runs into problems while touring rural Japan. It also pays lots of attention to the...

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  • 1935
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    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    Wife! Be Like a Rose!

    7 1935 HD

    Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

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  • 1935
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    The Girl in the Rumor

    The Girl in the Rumor

    5.9 1935 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    The Road I Travel with You

    The Road I Travel with You

    6.3 1936 HD

    The otherwise promising young man Asaji (Heihachirô Ôkawa) and his younger brother Yuji (Hideo Saeki) face blighted lives because of...

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  • 1936
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    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    Morning's Tree-Lined Street

    6.7 1936 HD

    As suggested by the title, this film takes up the theme of the city, beginning with a series of traveling shots from Chiyo's point of view on a bus...

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  • 1938
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    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

    Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

    6.3 1938 HD

    Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

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  • 1942
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    Bouquet of the South Seas

    Bouquet of the South Seas

    5 1942 HD

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  • 1942
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    Wings of Victory

    Wings of Victory

    6.3 1942 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Dawn of Freedom

    The Dawn of Freedom

    1 1944 HD

    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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  • 1951
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    Dancing Girl

    Dancing Girl

    6.3 1951 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    Lil's Return from Shanghai

    Lil's Return from Shanghai

    1 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    The Bridge on the River Kwai

    7.8 1957 HD

    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...

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  • 1957
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    The Mysterians

    The Mysterians

    6.41 1957 HD

    In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

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  • 1958
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    The Wind Cannot Read

    The Wind Cannot Read

    6.3 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

    7 1964 HD

    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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  • 1968
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    Destroy All Monsters

    Destroy All Monsters

    6.824 1968 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    One of Those Things

    One of Those Things

    1 1971 HD

    A successful auto executive Vinther becomes entwined with a young nubile girl, following an avoidable car accident, that results in the death of a...

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  • 1955
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    Three Stripes in the Sun

    Three Stripes in the Sun

    7 1955 HD

    A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

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  • 1940
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    Wedding Day

    Wedding Day

    1 1940 HD

    Twenty-year-old Yoshiko (Setsuko Hara) and her younger sister Asako (Yōko Yaguchi) struggle to accept changes in their home during the preparations...

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  • 1961
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    The Big Wave

    The Big Wave

    1 1961 HD

    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...

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  • 1952
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    A Ripple in a Morning

    A Ripple in a Morning

    1 1952 HD

    Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

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  • 1936
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    Brother and Sister

    Brother and Sister

    6 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1935
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    Drifting

    Drifting

    1 1935 HD

    Adaptation of Fumiko Hayashi's novel.

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  • 1962
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    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin

    7.3 1962 HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

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  • 1941
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    Shanghai Moon

    Shanghai Moon

    1 1941 HD

    It is presumed to be a lost film.

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  • 1955
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    Floating Clouds

    Floating Clouds

    7.7 1955 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Eagle of the Pacific

    Eagle of the Pacific

    7.8 1953 HD

    Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

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  • 1941
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    Mother of the Red Hands

    Mother of the Red Hands

    1 1941 HD

    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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  • 1942
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    Sky of Hope

    Sky of Hope

    1 1942 HD

    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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  • 1939
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    Numazu Officer School

    Numazu Officer School

    1 1939 HD

    Japanese war movie

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  • 1934
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    Romantic and Crazy

    Romantic and Crazy

    1 1934 HD

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  • 1965
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    Frankenstein Conquers the World

    Frankenstein Conquers the World

    6.587 1965 HD

    During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...

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