Highest rated movie: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Lowest rated movie: Destroy All Monsters (1968)
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Looking for reviews of Heihachirō Ōkawa movies? Cinafilm has a total of 828 reviews across 2 movies.
Movies starring Heihachirō Ōkawa have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 75%.
The Bridge on the River Kwai - released in 1957 - is Heihachirō Ōkawa's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 732 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Heihachirō Ōkawa is Destroy All Monsters - released in 1968 - with a score of 67% based on 96 reviews.
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).
Heihachirō Ōkawa has acted in films with Alec Guinness, William Holden, Hisaya Ito and Kenji Sahara.
Heihachirō Ōkawa has worked with these film directors: Ishirō Honda and David Lean.
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