was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese silent film star in Japan during the 1920's and early 1930's. A Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 native, he first started at the Taikatsu studio and later he was a leading player for such legendary Japanese directors as Yasujiro Ozu

Yasujiro Ozu

was a prominent Japanese film director and script writer. He is known for his distinctive technical style, developed during the silent era. Marriage and family, especially the relationships between the generations, are among the most persistent themes in his body of work...

 and Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kenji Mizoguchi was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film Ugetsu won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and appeared in the Sight & Sound Critics' Top Ten Poll in 1962 and 1972. Mizoguchi is renowned for his mastery of the long take and mise-en-scène...

. Film critic Tadao Sato

Tadao Sato

is a prominent Japanese film critic and film theorist. Satō has published more than 30 books on film, and is one of the foremost scholars and historians addressing Japanese film, though little of his work has been translated for publication abroad....

 recounts that Okada was among the handsomest and favorite Japanese actors of the era. Throughout his career, Okada played the role of the quintessential nimaime (translated as "second line") which were romantic, sensitive men as opposed to the rugged and hard-boiled leading men known as tateyaku. He was the father of film actress Mariko Okada

Mariko Okada

Mariko Okada is a Japanese actress. She is married to film director Yoshishige Yoshida.Her father was the noted silent film actor Tokihiko Okada, who before his early death starred in Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Chorus...

. Tokihiko Okada died of tuberculosis

Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...

 a month and two days before turning 31 years of age.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1920	Amateur Club	Shigeru's friend / Hideo Inoue / Hatsugiku	On credit: Eiichi Takahashi
	Katsushika Sunako	Kitsunosuke	On credit: Kurao Nora
1921	Hinamatsuri no yoru	Spirit of rabbit	On credit: Kurao Nora
	Jasei no in	Toyoo	On credit: Eiichi Takahashi
1922	Jondai no bouken		On credit: Eiichi Takahashi
1924	Natsukashiki haha	Minoru Murase	First film as Tokihiko Okada
	Onna ni amai otoko no mure	the writer
	Gion no haru, chiri yuku hana
	Kyokan wo idete
	Ringo
	Koi no ryoujin	Kimio Yoshida
	Arashi no seirei
	Donzoko	Murakami
	In yori You e
1925	Koufuku
	Kouro
	Dohatsu
	Kiro ni tachite
	Nadare
	Kemuri
	Ningen Raisan
	Wakoudo no chi wa odoru
	Maboroshi no hansen	Shao Jun Chang
1926	Shinsei no aikou
	Nyoubou Kawaiya
	Kami ningyo no haru no sasayaki	Sumio Kaijima
	Reimei no uta
	Kyoko to Shizuko
	Gantou no nazo
	Mito Koumon	Tsunaeda Tokugawa
	Ashi ni sawatta onna	Yumeo Matsudo
	Shin Nihontou: zen-kouhen	Second Lieutenant Yuzou Matsushima
1927	Kare wo meguru gonin no onna
	Okubo Hikozaemon	Iemitsu Tokugawa
	Tokkan koi no uijin
	Jihi shincho	Shunsuke Shinohara
1931	Tokyo Chorus Tokyo Chorus was a 1931 silent movie produced by Shochiku Company, directed by acclaimed and influential Japanese director Yasujirō Ozu and starring Tokihiko Okada and Emiko Yagumo. It was based on various stories in the Shoshimin-gai series and also shares influences with King Vidor's The Crowd...	Shinji Okajima