Masumi Okada Net Worth is
$500,000

Mini Biography

Masumi Okada was an eminent and popular Tokyo-based professional acting professional, singer, stand-up comedian, emcee, host-presenter and film manufacturer. Also known by his nickname, “Fanfan”, he was created in Fine, France, to a Japanese dad who was simply an musician, and a Danish mom, Ingeborg. Masumi Okada was younger of two sons; his old sibling, Taibi “Erick” Okada, was also an professional and presenter — known skillfully as E.H. Eric, he was the emcee for the Beatles’ 1966 concert in Tokyo. Okada spent the initial four many years of his lifestyle in France before relocating to Japan in 1939. He received his education under his Traditional western name, Otto Sevaldsen, at Saint Joseph International College (SJIS) in the town of Yokohama in Kanagawa prefecture, graduating in 1955. In 1952, while still students at SJIS, Okada debuted as an professional within a musical on the Nichigeki Music Hall. He agreed upon with Nikkatsu Company in 1954, showing up in his initial film, “Hatsukoi Kanariya Musume” the next year. In 1956, Okada was casted as the bandmaster in Takumi Furukawa and Yujiro Ishihara’s “Taiyo zero Kisetsu”/”Time of year of sunlight”. This efficiency resulted in his appearance in the friend film, “Kurutta Kajitsu”/”Crazed Fruits” (1956), where he performed the awesome, laid-back, finger-snapping Amerasian, “Frank Hirosawa”, the unofficial innovator of a music group of youthful “rebels with out a trigger”. Okada allegedly stole every picture where he appeared. Inside a career which spanned a lot more than five decades, Okada continued to surface in over 140 motion pictures. A talented and flexible entertainer, he was also energetic on stage and tv. His credits consist of all styles in the three press — from stage musicals to horror movies, from comedies to historicals to tragedies, and from Shakespeare to science-fiction. Okada’s mixed ethnicity and skills in Japanese, British and People from france enabled him to portray an array of heroes, in roles while diverse while “Count number Dracula” in “The Vampire Dracula INVOLVES Kobe” (1979) to “Sibling Michael” in Wayne Clavell’s “Shogun” (1980). He acted as the French physicist, “Dr. Jules Masson”, in Ishiro Honda’s “Latitude No”/”Ido No Daisakusen”/”Atragon II” (1969). In the film, “Marco” (1973), he was the Chinese language ambassador, “Ti Wai”. In “Bye-Bye, Jupiter”/”Sayonara, Jupiter” (1984), he was solid as “Dr. Mohammed Mansur”, and in “Obtaining Any” (1994) — a humor with “Defeat” Takeshi Kitano — Okada produced a cameo appearance as the Russian head, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin. Okada’s other efforts towards the film sector include his function as a manufacturer for both “Fight Royale” (2000) and “Fight Royale II: Requiem” (2003), aswell while “Chichan wa sokyu zero muko”. He was also the professional maker of “Blue” (2002), a critically-acclaimed film about the partnership between two schoolgirls involved with a lesbian crush. Okada’s stage credits are the Toho musicals, where he starred after leaving Nikkatsu Company, as well while the French music, “La Cage aux Folles”, which ran for more than 400 shows. In 2001, he made an appearance as the French philosopher and article writer, Voltaire, inside a Japanese-language edition from the operatta, “Candide”, by Leonard Bernstein. Okada also founded the theatre business, Gekidan Keyaki, in Japan. In 1962, Okada appeared in NHK’s “Wakai Kisetsu”. In 1966, Masumi Okada was cast as the newspapers reporter, “Ito Mura”, in Osamu Tezuka’s tv series, “THE AREA Giants” (aka “Ambassador Magma”, “Space Avenger” and “Monsters From SPACE”), made by P Productions and aimed by Hidehito Ueda. Okada also starred in the 1980s series, “Wonder Young lady”, a Japanese tv detective drama, as well as the 1998 series, “Nemureru Mori”/”A Sleeping Forest”. In the Tunnels’ 1988 parody, “Kamen Norida”, Okada performed Joker’s “Colonel Fanfan”. Okada’s performances weren’t restricted to Japan audiences. “THE AREA Giants”, “Latitude No”, “Marco”, “Shogun” and “The Hunted” had been a few of his credits which became worldwide strikes, and brought him into connection with actors such as for example Joseph Cotten, Richard Jaeckel and Cesar Romero (“Latitude No”), Desi Arnaz Jr. and No Mostel (“Marco”), Richard Chamberlain and John Rhys-Davies (“Shogun”) and Christopher Lambert (“The Hunted”). Okada was a normal judge in the “Iron Chef” series, as well as the host for most Japanese range and game displays, including NTV’s superstar quiz present, “Sarujie”. In “Sarujie”, he wore a monkey fit and make-up, based on the theme from the present — “saru” results in “monkey”, and, “jie”/”chie”, “wit”, the word “sarujie” meaning “shallow cunning”. Okada was a fantastic Professional of Ceremonies, and was the emcee for most beauty pageants kept in Japan. For over 2 decades, he offered as the host-presenter for The International Beauty Pageant, popularly referred to as the Miss International competition. Tall, good-looking, enchanting, charismatic, suave and witty, along with his affectionate character and magnetism, he could constantly spice up a display, no matter its audience as well as the additional individuals in the display. Again, his capability to speak fluent Japanese, British and French became a secured asset, as had been his effective, deep and sensuous vocals. Okada was appointed as you of Japan’s Ambassadors towards the Hans Christian Andersen 2005 bicentenary, a summary of occasions organized in special event from the nineteenth-century Danish author’s lifestyle and works. Okada was married 3 x. In 1960, he announced his two-year “contractual relationship” towards the renowned dancer and mime choreographer, Yoneyama Mamako — a union which finished even prior to the initial calendar year was over. Okada after that remained one for over ten years; in 1972, he wedded Japanese celebrity Midori Fujita, with whom he previously three sons. 22 years afterwards, Okada divorced Fujita, and, in 1995, he had taken his third wife, Keiko, who provided him his 4th boy in 1999. The turn from the millennium brought two tragic deaths in Okada’s life. In 2000, his elder sibling, Taibi, passed away of Parkinson’s Disease in Sprecklesville, Maui Isle, Hawaii. After that, on July 27, 2004, Okada’s third boy with Fujita was discovered hanged at his mother’s house in the Denenchofu suburb of Tokyo. Stunned, Okada didn’t attend son’s personal funeral the next day, but known as a press meeting a month afterwards to refute allegations with the Shuukan Josei mag that there have been poor bloodstream between him and his 26-year-old child, who was simply an associate stage designer having a theatre company ahead of his suicide. Masumi Okada dedicated his lifetime towards the entertainment market rather than retired from display business. In June 2005, he was identified as having throat (even more specifically, esophageal) malignancy, and underwent medical procedures. Less than 90 days later on, he was once again before the video cameras, hosting the Miss International 2005 beauty pageant in Tokyo, although his exhaustion surfaced towards the finish from the display when he evidently read aloud the brands of the very best 12 contestants — Miss Venezuela, Miss Philippines, Miss Brazil, Miss Japan, Miss Dominican Republic, Miss Columbia, Miss Turkey, Miss Finland, Miss France, Miss Ukraine, Miss Peru and Miss Serbia and Montenegro — in the area of 20 secs. Nevertheless, the present was an enormous achievement, with wide mass media coverage. Okada suffered a relapse of his malignancy and was re-hospitalized, but succumbed to his disease in a Tokyo medical center on, may 29, 2006, in 4.05 p.m. (7.05 a.m. GMT), older 70 years. He previously hoped to live until he was at least 80 years.

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