Hiroshi Koizumi
Born: 1926-08-12 in Kamakura, Japan
Died: 2015-05-31
Known For: Acting
Biography
Hiroshi Koizumi (小泉博, Koizumi Hiroshi, birth name written as 小泉 汪) (12 August 1926 – 31 May 2015) was a Japanese actor, best known for his starring role in the 1955 film Godzilla Raids Again as well as other Toho Studios monster movies. He was born in Japan. He is a graduate of Keio University in Tokyo. In a 1999 interview with Steve Ryfle, Koizumi laments that while he stated he has easy parts to play, he felt he could have done more in his performances. Despite his roles where he usually plays a scientist, he plays a powerful role in Late Chrysanthemums, playing a young man that married an older wealthy woman to escape from the slums. On 31 May 2015, Koizumi died at a hospital in Tokyo from pneumonia at the age of 88. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hiroshi Koizumi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2019
- The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga as Self - Actor
2003
- Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. as Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô
1992
- Genesis Surviver Gaiarth ... (Producer)
- Tetsuo II: Body Hammer ... (Producer)
1985
- Godzilla 1985 as Geologist Minami
1984
- The Return of Godzilla as Professor Minami
1983
1981
- The Last Days of Planet Earth as Zoologist
1979
1976
1974
- Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla as Professor Wagura
- Prophecies of Nostradamus as Environmental scientist #2
1973
1972
- Warrior of Love Rainbowman as Ichiro Yamato
1970
- 金メダルへのターン!
- I Want to Sleep ... (Music)
1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea as Kurino
- Young Guy Graduates
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Nobukata Wada - NHK Broadcaster
1965
- The White Rose of Hong Kong as Takeda, Chief of the Narcotics Division/ Drug dealer boss
- Start Here as Shuji Okabayashi (Akiko’s Husband)
1964
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster as Professor Murai
- Mothra vs. Godzilla as Professor Shunsuke Miura
- Dogora as Kirino
- Hello, Baby as Toshio Mikami
1962
1961
- Mothra as Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô
- A Night in Hong Kong
- Different Sons
- Lovers of Ginza
- Sazae-san Plays Cupid
1960
- The Storm of the Pacific
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Hidetaka Tani
- Sazae-san's Baby
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- Sazae And Aunt Apron
- Ginza Tomboy as Takashi Koshiba (Lawyer)
1959
- The Beast Shall Die as Detective Masugi
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster as Tsukioka
- Sazae-san's Marriage
- Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
- Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
- Three Dolls in Ginza
- The Wedding Night as Atsio Mizushima
1958
- Sazae's Engagement Trip
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Capital of Love as Kyoichi Yamane
- Song for a Bride
- The Little Actress
- The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Girl as Masao Akita
- Romance and Rhythm
1957
- Teenage Sazae
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
- Good Luck to These Two
- The 36 Passengers
- Sazae-san Sequel
- A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister
- A Town with a Mountain and River as Shogo Sugawara
- The Green Voyage as Yōichi Shimizu (amateur baseball player)
- Hateful Things as Professor Kurata
1956
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Taniyama
- The Underworld
- Rebels on the High Sea
- Sazae-san
- All Sold Out
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2
- Fighting Cha Cha Girl as Shichihei Hayasugi
1955
- Godzilla Raids Again as Shoichi Tsukioka
- Mother and Son as Hiroshi Matsuyama
- Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
- Ticket to Hell as Detective Funaki
- Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume as Driver
- Tomorrow's Happiness as Toshio Matsuzaki
- So Deep in My Heart
- The First Kiss as Eikichi Uemura
- Young Love Conquers All
- Lovetide as Ishijima
- Farewell, Innocence as Amemiya
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
1954
1953
- The Last Embrace as Yoshikawa (Sampei)
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The young man
- Jirocho's Home-Coming
- Mr. Pu
- Her Captive Gamblers
- Tokyo Profile
- Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
- Jirocho, the Hunted
- Girls in the Orchard
- White Fish as Sumida
- A Song of Little Men
- Aijô ni tsuite
1952
- Ikiru as Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
- The Man Who Came to Port as Shingo Nishizawa
- Tokyo Sweetheart as Shôtarô
- Mr. Lucky as 近藤勇三
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- A Meeting of Youths as Shōgo Murase
- A Guide to Marriage