{"id":573,"date":"2022-10-24T13:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=573"},"modified":"2022-10-24T13:00:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T13:00:16","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ken-utsui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/10\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ken-utsui\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Ken Utsui!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">October 24, 1931 \u2013 March 14, 2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Ken Utsui, born in Tokyo, Japan, was a prolific actor for many decades, amassing an amazing 150 acting credits including a pair of CDF classics from 1965 \u2013 ATTACK FROM SPACE, and EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE. He is best known in the United States, and to CDF enthusiasts, as the heroic Starman (a.k.a. Super Giant), Japan\u2019s first celluloid superhero who fought a variety of grotesque creatures in the late 1950s!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-574\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Utsui photo collage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 24, 1931 \u2013 March 14, 2014 Ken Utsui, born in Tokyo, Japan, was a prolific actor for many decades, amassing an amazing 150 acting credits including a pair of CDF classics from 1965 \u2013 ATTACK FROM SPACE, and EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE. He is best known in the United States, and to CDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574,"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":[89,15,7,5,6,184,185,186],"class_list":["post-573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-kenutsui","tag-starman","tag-superhero"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ken-Utsui_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573","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=573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}