
Hiroshi Koizumi
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.972 |
Birthday | 1926-08-12 |
Place of Birth | Kamakura, Japan |
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1955

Godzilla Raids Again
6/284
Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...
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Godzilla Raids Again

1964

Mothra vs. Godzilla
7/291
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and claimed by greedy entrepreneurs. Mothra's fairies...
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Mothra vs. Godzilla

1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
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Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

1953

Aijô ni tsuite
0/0
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her paren...
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Aijô ni tsuite

1962

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū

1963

Atragon
6.5/50
The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World W...
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Atragon

1959

Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife
0/0
Masuo and Sazae are enjoying their newlywed life in their new house, even though they are in company housing. Masuo's colleague is invited to thank hi...
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Sazae-san, the Wayward Wife

1959

Sazae-san's Newlywed Family
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Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the newlywe...
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Sazae-san's Newlywed Family

1959

Sazae-san's Marriage
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Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and e...
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Sazae-san's Marriage

1953

White Fish
0/0
A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon th...
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White Fish

1964

Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
7/253
After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.
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Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster

1964

Dogora
6.8/40
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.
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Dogora

1974

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
7/249
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But no...
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Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

1985

Godzilla 1985
6.8/179
Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage of...
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Godzilla 1985

1961

Mothra
7.2/169
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population al...
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Mothra

2003

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.
7.1/180
Mothra and her fairies return to Japan to warn mankind that they must return Kiryu to the sea, for the dead must not be disturbed. However Godzilla ha...
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Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S.

1963

Matango
6.9/98
Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food for them to use as they try...
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Matango

1962

Star of Hong Kong
0/0
Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru. The...
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Star of Hong Kong

1960

The Storm of the Pacific
5.6/8
Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1...
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The Storm of the Pacific

1960

Master Fencer Sees the World
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A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...
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Master Fencer Sees the World

1983

The Tale of Saikaido
0/0
Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures surrounding...
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The Tale of Saikaido

1955

Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
0/0
In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.
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Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf

1962

Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Kōkōsei to jokyōshi hijō no seishun

1969

Battle of the Japan Sea
6/7
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a...
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Battle of the Japan Sea

1956

Rebels on the High Sea
0/0
A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.
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Rebels on the High Sea

1962

Saotome-ka no musume-tachi
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Saotome-ka no musume-tachi

1960

Chikûho no kodomotachi
0/0
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines
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Chikûho no kodomotachi

1962

Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten
0/0
1962 Japanese movie
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Sararīman Gonza to Sukejū ren'ai kōsa-ten

1959

Gigantis, the Fire Monster
6.3/33
A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.
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Gigantis, the Fire Monster

1954

Late Chrysanthemums
7.3/34
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portra...
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Late Chrysanthemums

1960

Daughters, Wives and a Mother
7.1/8
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother

1954

Mother's First Love
0/0
A melodrama based on the novel by Yasunari Kawabata, telling about the tragic fate of a mother and daughter who are attracted to the same man.
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Mother's First Love

1953

Tokyo Profile
6.5/2
A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the cr...
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Tokyo Profile

2008

Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects
8.4/12
A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is Yasu...
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Bringing Godzilla Down to Size: The Art of Japanese Special Effects

1955

The First Kiss
6.3/3
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss

1984

The Return of Godzilla
7.171/304
After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...
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The Return of Godzilla

1953

Mr. Pu
6.5/2
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu

1953

The Last Embrace
0/0
Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...
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The Last Embrace

1956

The Underworld
0/0
Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue. Furuy...
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The Underworld

1964

こんにちは赤ちゃん
10/3
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こんにちは赤ちゃん

1961

A Night in Hong Kong
0/0
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who me...
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A Night in Hong Kong

1973

Little Adventurer
8/1
Mickey, a smart student from England, is on his trip to Japan for vacation. He meets with a Chinese girl Lin Fang on the way. They each have the same...
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Little Adventurer

1952

Mr. Lucky
0/0
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Mr. Lucky

1959

The Beast Shall Die
5.6/7
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot...
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The Beast Shall Die

1952

Tokyo Sweetheart
7/3
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart

1966

The Daphne
0/0
Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer...
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The Daphne

1953

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
0/0
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
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Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

1953

Her Captive Gamblers
0/0
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Her Captive Gamblers

1953

Jirocho's Home-Coming
0/0
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Jirocho's Home-Coming

1958

City of Love
0/0
Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the bar...
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City of Love

1954

Jirocho's New Year
0/0
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Jirocho's New Year

1953

Jirocho, the Hunted
0/0
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
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Jirocho, the Hunted

1954

Jirocho in Disgrace
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Jirocho in Disgrace

1954

Last of the Wild Ones
0/0
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
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Last of the Wild Ones

1952

The Man Who Came to Port
10/1
An Ishiro Honda film.
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The Man Who Came to Port

1955

Lovetide
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Lovetide

1955

Mother and Son
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Mother and Son

1957

Good Luck to These Two
6/1
A young man and woman are determined to marry despite opposition from her parents.
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Good Luck to These Two

1957

A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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A Farewell to the Woman Called My Sister

1958

Song for a Bride
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film.
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Song for a Bride

1962

Chûshingura
7.3/41
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their hon...
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Chûshingura

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus
6/15
Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately, nobo...
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Prophecies of Nostradamus

1952

Ikiru
8.3/1170
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look...
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Ikiru

1957

Sazae-san Sequel
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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Sazae-san Sequel

1956

Sazae-san
8/1
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
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Sazae-san

1957

Teenage Sazae
0/0
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
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Teenage Sazae

1958

Sazae's Engagement Trip
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.
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Sazae's Engagement Trip

1953

My Wonderful Yellow Car
6/1
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My Wonderful Yellow Car

1960

Sazae-san's Baby
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.
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Sazae-san's Baby

1960

Sazae And Aunt Apron
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip
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Sazae And Aunt Apron

1961

Sazae-san Plays Cupid
0/0
An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.
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Sazae-san Plays Cupid

1976

Human Revolution II
0/0
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Human Revolution II

1955

Ticket to Hell
0/0
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Ticket to Hell

2019

The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
8.4/9
Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga

1955

Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume
0/0
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Utae! Seishun Harikiri Musume

1979

Violent Fighters
0/0
In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada...
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Violent Fighters

1953

Girls in the Orchard
0/0
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard

1967

Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day

1961

Different Sons
0/0
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden un...
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Different Sons

1981

The Last Days of Planet Earth
0/0
In 1853, Gentetsu Nishiyama tells his students that the French prophet Nostaradamus foretells great change for Japan, some of his students revolt, cal...
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