Heihachirō Ōkawa

, also sometimes credited as , 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). Partial filmography (1933) - Asao (1933) (1934) (1934) (1934) (1934) (1935) Three Sisters With Maiden Hearts (1935) - Aoyama Wife! Be Like a Rose! (1935) - Seiji, Kimiko's boyfriend (1935) - Kokichi The Girl in the Rumor (1935) - Shintaro (1936) - Student, Obata (1936) - Asaji Amanuma (1936) (1936) - Ogawa (1937) (1937) (1937) (1937) (1937) (1938) (1938) (1938) - Matsuzaki (1938) (1939) - Gengo Ôtaka (1939) (1939) (1940) (1940) (1940) (1940) - Shinjiro Ine's husband (1941) - Takeshi Yoshino (1942) The Sky of Hope (1942) - Okada (1942) (1942) - Harada, pilot (1942) (1944) Tokyo File 212 (1951) Oriental Evil (1951) Dancing Girl (1951) – Koyama (1952) - Takada (1952) Geisha Girl (1952) - Police Inspector Eagle of the Pacific (1953) (1954) (1954) (1954) Floating Clouds (1955) - Isha (1955) - Clerk Three Stripes in the Sun (1955) - Father Yoshida The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) - Captain Kanematsu Stopover Tokyo (1957) - Lt. Afumi (uncredited) The Mysterians (1957) - Person at Board Meeting The Wind Cannot Read (1958) - Lt. Nakamura The Road to the West (1959) The Big Wave (1961) - Yukio's Father Marines, Let's Go (1961) - Yoshida (hotel manager) (1962) - Kyûdayû Mase (1963) - Quyen Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) - Astronomer Destroy All Monsters (1968) - Engineer Hændeligt uheld (1971) - Kawasaki (final film role)