{"id":2083,"date":"2023-08-12T05:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2023-08-22T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:15:25","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-hiroshi-koizumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/08\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-hiroshi-koizumi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Hiroshi Koizumi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">August 12, 1926 \u2013 May 31, 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hiroshi Koizumi starred as pilot hero Shoichi Tsukioka in Godzilla&#8217;s first sequel, GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN (1955), becoming a regular in Toho Studios&#8217; films and appearing in such kaiju classics as<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1974) and GODZILLA 1985 (1984), starring in all four as a professor or a scientist. Mr. Koizumi also starred in the CDF fan-favorites; MOTHRA (1961),<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>MATANGO (1963), DOGORA! (1964)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2084\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Hiroshi Koizumi photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 12, 1926 \u2013 May 31, 2015 Hiroshi Koizumi starred as pilot hero Shoichi Tsukioka in Godzilla&#8217;s first sequel, GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN (1955), becoming a regular in Toho Studios&#8217; films and appearing in such kaiju classics as\u00a0 MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1974) and GODZILLA 1985 (1984), starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2084,"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":[15,7,5,6,91,27,32,585,290,200,35],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-ghidorah","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-hiroshikoizumi","tag-matango","tag-mechagodzilla","tag-mothra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Hiroshi-Koizumi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","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=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2086,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}