Heihachirō Ōkawa

Known for ActingBorn 1905-09-09Died 1971-05-27Soka, 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). (Wikkipedia)Read more

Movies & web series

The Big Wave

Husband Comes Home Every Suturday

Easy Alley

Tipsy Life

One of Those Things

The Man Who Waited

Sky of Hope

Shanghai Moon

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Ichiyo Higuchi

The Eagle of the Pacific

Floating Clouds

Interpol Code 8

Lil's Return from Shanghai

Chûshingura

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

Marines, Let's Go

Destroy All Monsters

Three Stripes in the Sun

Wife! Be Like a Rose!

A Ripple in a Morning

Frankenstein Conquers the World

Numazu Officer School

Ghost Man

Wings of Victory

A Woman's Sorrows

Morning's Tree-Lined Street

Learn from Experience, Part One

The Road I Travel with You

Geisha Girl

The Wind Cannot Read

Tsuruhachi and Tsurujiro

The Mysterians

Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts

Dancing Girl

King Kong Escapes

Learn from Experience, Part Two

Brother and Sister

Bouquet of the South Seas

The Girl in the Rumor

Five Men in a Circus

Tokyo File 212

Jūyaku kōho-sei nanbā 1

All of Myself

Love Express

The Dawn of Freedom

Mother of the Red Hands

Hikari to kage (Zenpen)