{"id":1171,"date":"2023-02-13T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2023-02-13T12:32:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T12:32:56","slug":"happy-birthday-furanki-sakai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/02\/happy-birthday-furanki-sakai\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Furank\u00ee Sakai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">February 13, 1929 \u2013 June 10, 1996<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Masatoshi Sakai in Kagoshima, Japan; comedian, actor, and producer Furank\u00ee Sakai boasts over 150 appearances on the big and small screen \u2013 most notably his Blue Ribbon Award-winning work in Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) and Shiawase wa orera no negai (1957), and the 1980 TV Mini-Series SHOGUN. His starring role as tenacious reporter Senichiro &#8216;Sen-chan&#8217; or \u2018Bulldog\u2019 Fukuda in 1961\u2019s MOTHRA affirms his rightful esteem among the honored CDF Alumni.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1172\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Furanki Sakai photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 1929 \u2013 June 10, 1996 Born Masatoshi Sakai in Kagoshima, Japan; comedian, actor, and producer Furank\u00ee Sakai boasts over 150 appearances on the big and small screen \u2013 most notably his Blue Ribbon Award-winning work in Sun in the Last Days of the Shogunate (1957) and Shiawase wa orera no negai (1957), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,7,5,6,385,32,35],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-furankisakai","tag-happybirthday","tag-mothra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Furanki-Sakai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1174,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}