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Masumi Okada est un Acteur et Producteur Japonais né le 22 septembre 1935 à Nice (France)

Masumi Okada

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Nationalité Japon
Naissance 22 septembre 1935 à Nice (France)
Mort 29 mai 2006 (à 70 ans) à préfecture métropolitaine de Tokyo (Japon)

Masumi Okada (岡田眞澄, Okada Masumi, September 22, 1935 – May 29, 2006) was a professional actor, singer, stand-up comedian, and film producer. Also known by his nickname, "Fanfan", he was born in Nice, France, to a Japanese father, Minoru Okada, who was an artist, and a Danish mother, Ingeborg Sevaldsen, who was the sister of Eline Eriksen, the model for the "Mermaid of Copenhagen" and wife of the statue's sculptor, Edvard Eriksen. Masumi Okada was the younger of two sons; his older brother, Taibi "Erick" Okada, was also an actor and presenter—known professionally as E. H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles' 1966 concert in Tokyo.

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Masumi Okada spent the first four years of his life in France before relocating to Japan in 1939. He received his education under his Western name, Otto Sevaldsen, at Saint Joseph International School (SJIS) in the city of Yokohama in Kanagawa prefecture, graduating in 1955. In 1952, while still a student at SJIS, Okada debuted as an actor in a musical at the Nichigeki Music Hall. He signed with Nikkatsu Corporation in 1954, appearing in his first film, "Hatsukoi Kanariya Musume"/"Canary Girl's First Love", the following year.

In 1956, Okada was cast as the bandmaster in Takumi Furukawa and Shintaro Ishihara's "Taiyo no Kisetsu"/"Season of the Sun". This performance led to his appearance in the companion film, "Kurutta Kajitsu"/"Crazed Fruit" (1956), in which he played the cool, laid-back, finger-snapping Amerasian, "Frank Hirosawa", the unofficial leader of a band of young "rebels without a cause". Okada allegedly stole every scene in which he appeared.

In a career which spanned more than five decades, Okada went on to appear in over 140 films. A talented and versatile entertainer, he was also active on stage and television. His credits include all genres in the three media—from stage musicals to horror films, from comedies to historicals to tragedies, and from Shakespeare to science-fiction.

Okada's mixed ethnicity and proficiency in Japanese, English and French enabled him to portray a wide range of characters, in roles as diverse as "Count Dracula" in "The Vampire Dracula Comes To Kobe" (1979) to "Brother Michael" in James Clavell's "Shogun" (1980). He acted as the French physicist, "Dr. Jules Masson", in Ishiro Honda's "Latitude Zero"/"Ido Zero Daisakusen"/"Atragon II" (1969). In the film, "Marco" (1973), he was the Chinese ambassador, "Ti Wai". In "Bye-Bye, Jupiter"/"Sayonara, Jupiter" (1984), he was cast as "Dr. Mohammed Mansur", and in "Getting Any?" (1994) -- a comedy with "Beat" Takeshi Kitano—Okada made a cameo appearance as the Russian leader, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
Okada's film credits also included "Arashi wo yobu otoko"/"Man Who Causes a Storm" (1957), "Akai hatoba"/"Red Quay" (1958), "Ankoku no Ryoken"/"Passport to Darkness" (1959), "Yoru no nagare"/"Evening Storm" (1960), "Oneechan wa tsuiteru ze"/"Anything Goes Three Dolls' Way" (1960), "Kyuketsu Dokurosen"/"Living Skeleton" (1968), "Moeru Tairiku"/"The Blazing Continent" (1968), "Isoge! Wakamono: Tomorrow Never Waits"/"Hurry, Young Ones! Tomorrow Never Waits" (1974), "Hishu monogatari"/"A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness" (1977), "Fuku no hana"/"Winter's Flower" (1978), "Umi to dokuyaku"/"The Sea and Poison" (1986), "CF Garu"/"Commercial Film Girl" (1989), "The Hunted" (1995), "Izo" (2004) and "Shiberia Chotokkyu 5"/"Siberia Express 5" (2005).

Okada's other contributions to the film industry include his role as a producer for both "Battle Royale" (2000) and "Battle Royale II: Requiem" (2003), as well as "Chichan wa sokyu no muko" (date of release: January 19, 2008). He was also the executive producer of "Blue" (2002), a critically acclaimed film about the relationship between two schoolgirls involved in a lesbian crush.

Okada's stage credits include the Toho musicals, in which he starred after leaving Nikkatsu Corporation, as well as the French musical, "La Cage aux Folles", which ran for over 400 performances. In 2001, he appeared as the French philosopher and writer, Voltaire, in a Japanese-language version of the operetta, "Candide", by Leonard Bernstein, the composer of "West Side Story" (1957).

Okada also founded the theater company, Gekidan Keyaki, in Japan.

In 1962, Okada appeared in NHK's "Wakai Kisetsu". In 1966, Masumi Okada was cast as the newspaper reporter, "Ito Mura" in Osamu Tezuka's television series, "The Space Giants" (aka "Ambassador Magma", "Space Avenger" and "Monsters From Outer Space"), produced by P Productions and directed by Hidehito Ueda. Okada also starred in the 1980s series, "Miracle Girl", a Japanese television detective drama, and the 1998 series, "Nemureru Mori"/"A Sleeping Forest". In the Tunnels' 1988 parody, "Kamen Norida", Okada played Joker's "Colonel Fanfan".
Okada's performances were not restricted to Japanese audiences. "The Space Giants", "Latitude Zero", "Marco", "Shogun" and "The Hunted" were some of his credits which became international hits, and brought him into contact with actors such as Joseph Cotten, Richard Jaeckel and Cesar Romero ("Latitude Zero"), Desi Arnaz Jr. and Zero Mostel ("Marco"), Richard Chamberlain and John Rhys-Davies ("Shogun") and Christopher Lambert ("The Hunted").

Okada was a regular judge in the "Iron Chef" series, and the host-presenter for many Japanese variety and game shows, including NTV's celebrity quiz show, "Sarujie". In "Sarujie", he wore a monkey suit and make-up, in line with the theme of the show -- "saru" translates into "monkey", and, "jie"/"chie", "wit", the term "sarujie" meaning "shallow cunning". Okada was an exceptional Master of Ceremonies, and was the emcee for many beauty pageants held in Japan. For over two decades, he served as the host-presenter for The International Beauty Pageant, popularly known as the Miss International contest. Tall (5 ft. 11⁄4 inches / 1.82 metres), good-looking, charming, charismatic, suave and witty, with his affectionate personality and magnetism, he could always liven up a show, regardless of its audience and the other participants in the show. Again, his ability to speak fluent Japanese, English and French proved to be an asset, as were his powerful, deep and sensuous vocals.

Masumi Okada was appointed as one of Japan's Ambassadors to the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 bicentenary, a list of events organized in celebration of the nineteenth-century Danish author's life and works. Okada said of Andersen: "To the future Andersen: Why? Why? Why? There were many "whys" during my childhood. And although the years have passed there are still many things I do not understand, but that makes life fascinating. The passion of asking "why" is called "curiosity". I have heard that Andersen's father read many stories to Andersen when he was a child. A book is a magical thing, and once you turn the pages, you can travel and experience many things. For example, you can fly, talk to flowers and animals, and even live under water. I am sure that Andersen's inspiration and his eternal message of "Love, Courage, Hope and Dream" grew from his father's storytelling. Anyone who harbours the curiosity to read books is himself a potential future Andersen."

Okada was married three times. In 1960, he announced his two-year "contractual marriage" to the renowned dancer and mime choreographer, Mamako Yoneyama—a union which ended even before the first year was over. Okada then remained single for over a decade; in 1972, he married Japanese actress Midori Fujita, with whom he had three sons, the eldest of whom, Yoshihiro Okada Makoto, is currently an actor and DJ in Japan. 22 years later, Okada divorced Fujita, and, in 1995, at the age of 60 years, he took his third wife, Keiko, a 34-year-old flight stewardess, who gave him his fourth child, a daughter, in 1998.

The turn of the millennium brought two tragic deaths in Okada's life. In 2000, his elder brother, Taibi, died of Parkinson's Disease in Sprecklesville, Maui Island, Hawaii. Then, on July 27, 2004, Okada's third son with Fujita was found hanged at his mother's home in the Denenchofu suburb of Tokyo. Shocked, Okada did not attend his son's private funeral the following day, but called a press conference a month later to refute allegations by the Shuukan Josei magazine that there had been bad blood between him and his 26-year-old son, who was an assistant stage designer with a theater company prior to his suicide. Okada said at the press conference, "I don't know why. It's been hard ....... and so sad when the child dies before the parent."

Masumi Okada devoted his entire life to the entertainment industry and never retired from show business. In June 2005, he was diagnosed with throat (esophageal) cancer, and underwent surgery. Less than three months later, he was again in front of the cameras, hosting the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant in Tokyo, although his fatigue surfaced towards the end of the show when he apparently read out the names of the top 12 contestants—Miss Venezuela, Miss Philippines, Miss Brazil, Miss Japan, Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Colombia, Miss Turkey, Miss Finland, Miss France, Miss Ukraine, Miss Peru and Miss Serbia and Montenegro—in the space of 20 seconds. Nevertheless, the show was a huge success, with wide media coverage.

Okada suffered a relapse of his malignancy and was re-hospitalized, but succumbed to his illness at a Tokyo hospital on May 29, 2006.

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Filmographie de Masumi Okada (25 films)

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IZO
IZO (2004)
, 2h8
Réalisé par Takashi Miike
Genres Drame, Guerre, Fantasy, Action, Horreur, Historique
Acteurs Takeshi Kitano, Kaori Momoi, Ryūhei Matsuda, Masumi Okada, Yūya Uchida, Hiroki Matsukata
Rôle Chief of the Palace
Note60% 3.0009753.0009753.0009753.0009753.000975
En 1865, un assassin redoutable est crucifié et meurt sous les coups de lances. Mais son esprit, bouillant de haine et de désir de revanche, le dispense de la mort. Il devient prisonnier d’un espace-temps en perpétuelle mutation, exécutant tout ce qui tombe sous sa lame : hommes, femmes, enfants et même les divinités qui régissent l’univers.
Getting Any ?, 1h50
Réalisé par Takeshi Kitano
Origine Japon
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Sexualité, Erotique
Acteurs Takeshi Kitano, Iizuka Minoru, Hakuryu, Akiji Kobayashi, Kanji Tsuda, Ren Osugi
Rôle Russian Actor
Note60% 3.0456653.0456653.0456653.0456653.045665
Asao n'a qu'une idée en tête : « en chopper une (getting any) ». Le film retrace le parcours d'un homme qui cherche tous les moyens possibles pour s'attirer les faveurs des femmes. Tour à tour, il essayera la possession d'un coupé, un vol en première classe, deviendra yakusa, chercheur de trésor, acteur, pour finir cobaye d'une expérience pour devenir invisible. Atteindra-t-il son but ?
La Proie
La Proie (1995)
, 1h51
Réalisé par J. F. Lawton
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action
Thèmes La mer, Sport, Transport, Arts martiaux, Samouraï
Acteurs Christophe Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yōko Shimada, Masumi Okada
Rôle Lt. Wadakura
Note58% 2.9493852.9493852.9493852.9493852.949385
Paul Racine, un informaticien français, est en voyage au Japon et, un soir, rencontre une Japonaise avec qui il passe la nuit. Il assiste ensuite à son assassinat par trois ninjas. Témoin du meurtre, ayant vu le visage découvert du chef Kinjo, il est pris pour cible et laissé pour mort. Racine, toujours traqué par le clan de Kinjo, trouve refuge auprès d'un samouraï japonais, Takeda, qui lui enseigne les arts martiaux et l'entraîne pour son affrontement contre Kinjo.
La Mer et le Poison, 2h3
Réalisé par Kei Kumai
Origine Japon
Genres Drame, Guerre
Acteurs Eiji Okuda, Ken Watanabe, Takahiro Tamura, Kyōko Kishida, Mikio Narita, Shigeru Kōyama
Rôle Hattori
Note74% 3.7121153.7121153.7121153.7121153.712115
Des aviateurs américains abattus pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale sont vivisequés par des chirurgiens japonais dans des expériences médicales cruelles.
さよならジュピター, 2h10
Réalisé par Sakyo Komatsu, Kōji Hashimoto
Genres Drame, Science-fiction, Thriller, Aventure
Thèmes L'espace, Adaptation d'une œuvre littéraire de science-fiction, Le futur, Space opera
Acteurs Akihiko Hirata, Tomokazu Miura, Masumi Okada, Andrew Hughes, Hisaya Morishige, Miyuki Ono
Rôle Dr. Mohammed Mansur
Note43% 2.1946252.1946252.1946252.1946252.194625
It's the 22nd Century (2125 AD), and mankind's population has exponentially expanded beyond Earth's handling. Therefore, humans now live throughout the Solar System and the total population has gone well over 18 billion. As a result, there's a severe energy crisis for planets further out from the sun and plans to turn Jupiter into a second sun have been set into motion. However, markings are found on Mars that indicates that alien life lives in Jupiter and the J.S. Project (Jupiter Solarization Project) is put on hold.
Shogun
Shogun (1980)
, 9h7
Réalisé par Jerry London
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Aventure, Historique
Thèmes La mer, Transport
Acteurs Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yōko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern
Rôle Brother Michael
Note81% 4.060694.060694.060694.060694.06069
After his Dutch trading ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Injiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. When he is later temporarily released, he must juggle his self-identity as an Englishman associated with other Europeans in Japan, namely Portuguese traders and Jesuit priests, with the alien Japanese culture into which he has been thrust and now must adapt to in order to survive. Being an Englishman, Blackthorne is at both religious and political odds with his enemy, the Portuguese, and the Catholic Church's Jesuit order. The Catholic foothold in Japan puts Blackthorne, a Protestant and therefore a heretic, at a political disadvantage. But this same situation also brings him to the attention of the influential Lord Toranaga, who mistrusts this foreign religion now spreading in Japan. He is competing with other samurai warlords of similar high-born rank, among them Catholic converts, for the very powerful position of Shōgun, the military governor of Japan.
Fleurs d'hiver, 2h1
Réalisé par Yasuo Furuhata
Origine Japon
Genres Drame, Policier
Thèmes Yakuza
Acteurs Ken Takakura, Kunie Tanaka, Kin'ya Kitaōji, Susumu Fujita, Isao Natsuyagi, Asao Koike
Rôle Shinkichi Mie
Note66% 3.3263.3263.3263.3263.326
Hideji Kanno, membre d'un clan yakuza de Yokohama sort de prison après avoir purgé une peine de quinze années d'emprisonnement pour le meurtre de Matsuoka qui avait trahi leur boss. Matuoka avait une fille de trois ans, Yōko, au moment des faits et Hideji s'est assuré par l'intermédiaire de son ami Kōkichi Minami que cette dernière ne manque de rien et suive une éducation de jeune fille normale. Yōko ignore tout de l'implication de Hideji dans la mort de son père et elle pense que son bienfaiteur est un oncle vivant à l'étranger.
悲愁物語, 1h33
Réalisé par Seijun Suzuki
Genres Drame
Thèmes Sport, Golf
Acteurs Yoshio Harada, Masumi Okada, Kyōko Enami, Joe Shishido, Asao Koike
Rôle Keiko Tadokoro
Note63% 3.1872353.1872353.1872353.1872353.187235
The film is about a professional model Reiko (Shiraki) who is being groomed for the golf circuit by the editor of a golfing fashion magazine. During her first professional competition she has great success, winning the approval of her mentor, a TV audience and others. Suddenly, everyone wants a piece of Reiko. The plot turns sinister as one of her devoted followers develops an obsession with Reiko and starts to blackmail and threaten her.
Latitude zero, 1h29
Réalisé par Ishirō Honda
Origine Japon
Genres Science-fiction, Action, Aventure
Thèmes La mer, Transport, Action sous-marine, Guerre en milieu sous-marin
Acteurs Joseph Cotten, Cesar Romero, Akira Takarada, Masumi Okada, Richard Jaeckel, Patricia Medina
Rôle Dr. Jules Masson
Note59% 2.9507352.9507352.9507352.9507352.950735
Un bateau japonais sillonne l'océan Pacifique. A son bord se trouvent trois scientifiques chargés d'étudier les fonds marins : le commandant de l'expédition, Ken Tashiro, et ses deux assistants, l'américain Perry Lawton et le français Jules Masson. Le trio embarque dans un bathyscaphe. Mais rapidement les ennuis commencent avec la formation d'un volcan au fond de la mer. Les trois hommes sont entraînés dans une faille et perdent connaissance...
The living Skeleton, 1h20
Genres Horreur
Acteurs Kikko Matsuoka, Masumi Okada, Nobuo Kaneko, Kō Nishimura, Hitoshi Takagi, Asao Koike
Rôle Father / Boss
Note62% 3.139473.139473.139473.139473.13947
Une prise d'otage a lieu sur un paquebot de luxe : les criminels, ivres de violence, assassinent sauvagement l'ensemble des passagers. Trois ans plus tard, Saeko, sœur jumelle de l'une des victimes, entre en contact avec la défunte et entreprend de tuer un à un les meurtriers impunis.
Courant du soir, 1h51
Réalisé par Yūzō Kawashima, Mikio Naruse
Origine Japon
Genres Drame
Acteurs Yōko Tsukasa, Isuzu Yamada, Tatsuya Mihashi, Takashi Shimura, Akira Takarada, Yaeko Mizutani
Note66% 3.3240453.3240453.3240453.3240453.324045
Aya Fujimura gère un restaurant à Tokyo. Sa fille Miyako et Shinobu, la fille de Kochiro Sonoda l'un de ses clients réguliers, sont amies. Aya souhaite que sa fille se marie et lui fait rencontrer des prétendants que Miyako repousse. Elle est attirée par le cuisinier du restaurant, un homme ténébreux et taciturne qu'une blessure au pied alors qu'il était prisonnier de guerre en Sibérie a rendu infirme.