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
- Mothra vs. Godzilla as Professor Shunsuke Miura
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster as Professor Murai
- Dogora as Kirino
- Hello, Baby as Toshio Mikami
1962
1961
- Mothra as Dr. Shin'ichi Chûjô
- Different Sons
- Sazae-san Plays Cupid
- Lovers of Ginza
- A Night in Hong Kong
1960
- Daughters, Wives and a Mother as Hidetaka Tani
- The Storm of the Pacific
- Chikuhō no kodomotachi
- Master Fencer Sees the World
- Sazae And Aunt Apron
- Ginza Tomboy as Takashi Koshiba (Lawyer)
- Sazae-san's Baby
1959
- The Beast Shall Die as Detective Masugi
- Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
- Sazae-san's Marriage
- Gigantis, the Fire Monster as Tsukioka
- Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
- Three Dolls in Ginza
- The Wedding Night as Atsio Mizushima
1958
- Holiday in Tokyo
- The Capital of Love as Kyoichi Yamane
- The Rise and Fall of a Jazz Girl as Masao Akita
- Sazae's Engagement Trip
- Song for a Bride
- Romance and Rhythm
- The Little Actress
1957
- Teenage Sazae
- Good Luck to These Two
- The 36 Passengers
- Sazae-san Sequel
- A Town with a Mountain and River as Shogo Sugawara
- A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister
- Hateful Things as Professor Kurata
- The Green Voyage as Yōichi Shimizu (amateur baseball player)
- Forgotten Flower Petal: Conclusion
1956
- Rebels on the High Sea
- The Underworld
- Sazae-san
- Fighting Cha Cha Girl as Shichihei Hayasugi
- Three Youngmen and a Dream Girl as Taniyama
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 2
1955
- Godzilla Raids Again as Shoichi Tsukioka
- Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
- The First Kiss
- Ticket to Hell as Detective Funaki
- Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume as Driver
- Farewell, Innocence as Amemiya
- Lovetide as Ishijima
- Mother and Son as Hiroshi Matsuyama
- Shin Shokoku Monogatari: Otena no To Part 1
- Young Love Conquers All
- So Deep in My Heart
- Tomorrow's Happiness as Toshio Matsuzaki
1954
1953
- Mr. Pu
- Girls in the Orchard
- Tokyo Profile
- Aijô ni tsuite
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The young man
- White Fish as Sumida
- Jirocho's Home-Coming
- The Last Embrace as Yoshikawa (Sampei)
- Her Captive Gamblers
- Jirocho, the Hunted
- Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
1952
- Ikiru as Jazz Bar Guest (uncredited)
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Tokyo Sweetheart as Shôtarô
- Mr. Lucky as 近藤勇三
- The Man Who Came to Port as Shingo Nishizawa
- A Meeting of Youths as Shōgo Murase