{"id":2823,"date":"2024-03-12T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2024-03-15T04:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T04:25:38","slug":"happy-birthday-takashi-shimura","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/03\/happy-birthday-takashi-shimura\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Takashi Shimura!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">March 12, 1905 \u2013 February 11, 1982<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born in Ikuno, Hy\u014dgo, Japan; Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor with over 200 appearances on the silver screen, including roles in the Akira Kurosawa classics \u2013 Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). CDF and kaiju aficionados will best remember Mr. Shimura for his many appearances in such tokusatsu treasures as \u2013 GODZILLA (1954), THE MYSTERIANS (1957), MOTHRA (1961), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), FRANKENSTEIN VS. BARUGON (1965), and GODZILLA VS. DESTROYAH (1995)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2824\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Takashi Shimura photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 12, 1905 \u2013 February 11, 1982 Born in Ikuno, Hy\u014dgo, Japan; Takashi Shimura was a Japanese actor with over 200 appearances on the silver screen, including roles in the Akira Kurosawa classics \u2013 Drunken Angel (1948), Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (1954). CDF and kaiju aficionados will best remember Mr. Shimura for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"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":[89,15,7,5,6,27,32,35,669,668],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-mothra","tag-sevensamurai","tag-takashishimura"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Takashi-Shimura_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","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=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}