{"id":3921,"date":"2024-12-16T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2025-01-25T23:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T23:39:56","slug":"happy-birthday-akihito-hirata-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/12\/happy-birthday-akihito-hirata-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Akihito Hirata!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">December 16, 1927 \u2013 July 25, 1984<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Born Akihito Onoda in Seoul, Korea and educated at Tokyo University&#8217;s School of Interior Design; Japanese film actor Akihiko Hirata is best remembered for his roles in many classic creature features including the films as The Mysterians (1957), Varan the Unbelievable (1958), Mothra (1961), and the CDF classics \u2013 RODAN (1956), KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP (1966), SON OF GODZILLA (1967), GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA (1974), TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975), and his most famous role of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa in the original GODZILLA (1954)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2487\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Akihito Hirata photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 16, 1927 \u2013 July 25, 1984 Born Akihito Onoda in Seoul, Korea and educated at Tokyo University&#8217;s School of Interior Design; Japanese film actor Akihiko Hirata is best remembered for his roles in many classic creature features including the films as The Mysterians (1957), Varan the Unbelievable (1958), Mothra (1961), and the CDF classics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2487,"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":[339,15,7,5,6,27,32,200],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-akihitohirata","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-mechagodzilla"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Akihito-Hirata_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","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=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}