Friday, January 07, 2005
1/7: Today in G-History
1963: HIROYUKI OKITA, who played Sasai in "Gamera 2: Attack of Iris", is
born in Kanagawa, Japan. He also played "Ultraman" writer Tetsuo Kinjo in
Episode 49 of "Ultraman Tiga".
1968: Episode 14 of "Ultra Seven", "Ultra Garrison Go West Part 1" (a.k.a.
"Planets in Conflice Part 1"), premieres on Japanese TV.
1971: DAVID YOST, who played Billy Cranston the Blue Ranger on "Mighty
Morphin Power Rangers", "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie", and "Power
Rangers Zeo", is born in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
1973: "Faiyaman" ("Fireman") premieres on Japanese TV with Episode 1,
"Fireman Created".
1994: Episode 45 of "Five Star Task Force Dairanger" debuts on Japanese TV.
2000: Episode 47 of "Kamen Rider Kuuga", "Determination", debuts on Japanese
TV.
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Thursday, January 06, 2005
1/6: Today in G-History
1906: VERNON RICH, who played Ridley in "Tarantula", is born.
1909: HARUKO SUGIMURA, who was in "The Three Treasures" and the madame in "Kwaidan", is born in Hiroshima.
1927: PAUL WITTENBERG, assistant editor on "Earth vs. the Spider", is born in New York City.
1931: KAORU YACHIGUSA, who was in "Madame White Snake" and played Fujichiyo Kasuga in "The Human Vapor", is born in Osaka.
1949: JIRO CHIBA, who played FBI Agent Taki on "Kamen Rider", "Kamen Rider vs. Shocker", and "Kamen Rider vs. Hell's Ambassador", and Detective Go Shinjo on "Robot Detective" and "Robot Keiji K: The Movie", is born Michiho Maeda in Kimitsu, Chiba, Japan. The younger brother of Sonny Chiba, he also appeared on "Kikaida 01" and "Akumaizer 3".
1960: KUMIKO OBA, who played Fanta in "House", is born in Hatogaya, Saitama, Japan.
1972: YOSHIYUKI OMORI, who was in "Godzilla 2000", is born in Kyoto.
1973: Episode 26 of "Kikaida", "Emerald Mammoth Global Freezing Plan", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 93 of "Kamen Rider", "8 Kamen Riders", debuts on Japanese TV.
1976: JOHNNY YONG BOSCH, who played Adam Park the Black Ranger on "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers", "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie", "Power Rangers Zeo", "Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie", "Power Rangers Turbo", and "Power Rangers in Space", is born in Kansas.
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Wednesday, January 05, 2005
1/5: Today in G-History
1906: DONALD RANDOLPH, who played Gen. Mark Ford in "The Deadly Mantis", is born in Cape Town, South Africa.
1947: MIWA TAKADA, who played Kozasa Hanabusa in "Daimajin" and Okiku in "One Hundred Monsters", is born in Kyoto.
1956: TAKAAKI ENOKI, who played Kakugyo in "Moon over Tao", is born in Kagoshima, Japan.
1963: "King Kong vs. Godzilla" is released in South Korea.
1965: JIRO OKAMOTO, who did stunts for "Kamen Rider Black", "Kamen Rider Black: Terror at Demon Pass", "Kamen Rider Black RX", "Kamen Rider Black: Hurry! To Evil Island", "Kamen Rider Black: All Around the World", "Shin Kamen Rider", "Kamen Rider ZO", "Kamen Rider J", "Kamen Rider World", and "Heavy Armored: B-Fighter", is born in Miyazaki-ken, Kyushu, Japan.
1973: Episode 14 of "Warrior of Love Rainbowman", "Terror Operation M", debuts on Japanese TV.
1974: Episode 34 of "Kikaida 01", "The Enchanted Big Clock Bijinder Danger", debuts on Japanese TV.
Episode 47 of "Kamen Rider V3", "Laying in Wait!! Destron's Chief!!", debuts on Japanese TV.
1977: ONSLOW STEVENS, who played Brigadier General O'Brien in "Them!", dies in Van Nuys, Calif.
1980: Episode 49 of "Battle Fever J" debuts on Japanese TV.
1984: NAOMI NAGASAWA, who played Nanami Nomo/Hurricane Blue on "Stealth Wind Task Force Hurricanger", is born.
1992: CHESTER W. SCHAEFFER, editor on "The Deadly Mantis", dies in Santa Clara, Calif.
2001: "Godzilla vs. Megaguirus" is released in South Korea.
2004: "Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost" is released on DVD in Japan.
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005
1/4: Today in G-History
1933: MASASHI ISHIBASHI is born Masami Ichibashi in Hualien, Taiwan. He played General Kar in "Science Task Force Dynaman" and was on "High Speed Task Force Turboranger" and "Orochi the Eight-Headed Dragon", as well as episodes of "Kamen Rider" and "Kamen Rider Black".
1944: MASATO SHIMON is born Masaharu Fujikawa in Tokyo. He sang the themes to "Kamen Rider", "Kamen Rider V3", "Kikaida 01", "Inazuman", "Kamen Rider X", "Kamen Rider Amazon", and "Kamen Rider Stronger", and the Jet Jaguar song in "Godzilla vs. Megalon".
1974: Episode 40 of "Ultraman Taro", "Go Beyond the Ultra Brothers", debuts on Japanese TV.
1975: Episode 12 of "Kamen Rider Amazon", "Seen! Geddon's Altered Room", debuts on Japanese TV.
1980: Episode 14 of "Sky Rider" debuts on Japanese TV.
1997: PAUL KOSLO, who played Dr. Haas in "Solar Crisis", marries Allaire Paterson.
1998: Episode 45 of "Electromagnetic Task Force Megaranger", "Hineler's Counterattack", debuts on Japanese TV.
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Sunday, January 02, 2005
1/2: Today in G-History
1926: HIDEYO (EISEI) AMAMOTO, best known as Dr. Who in "King Kong Escapes" and toymaker Shinpei Minami in "Godzilla’s Revenge", is born in Fukuoka. His sci-fi credits include "The Three Treasures", one of Onishi’s henchmen in "The Secret of the Telegian", the drunk in "Gorath", the High Priest of Mu in "Atragon", a mushroom man in "Attack of the Mushroom People", Granny the Witch in "The Lost World of Sinbad", Eiji the safecracker in "Dogora the Space Monster", Princess Salno's servant in "Ghidrah — the Three-Headed Monster", Cobra Man in "What’s Up, Tiger Lily?", the Red Bamboo ship captain in "Godzilla versus the Sea Monster", the first murderer in "The Killing Bottle", "Mighty Jack", Dr. Deathgod in "Kamen Rider" and "Kamen Rider vs. Shocker", "Transforming Ninja Arashi", Mother Dark in "Message From Space", Master of Saiga in "Wizard of Darkness II", and prophet Hirokaga Isayama in "Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: The Giant Monsters’ All-Out Attack". Amamoto also played the husband in "Twenty-Four Eyes" and was in "Yojimbo" and "Sword of Doom", and appeared on "Space Ironmen: Kyodyne", "Gunbaron", "Vigilante Zubat", "Nebula Mask", and "Machineman".
1940: MASAHIKO TSUGAWA, who played the Chief Cabinet Secretary in "Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack", is born in Kyoto.
1945: KEIKO SAWAI, who played a lab scientist in "Dogora the Space Monster", Kazuko the dying girl in "Frankenstein Conquers the World", and Haruno Fuji in "Godzilla vs. Monster Zero", is born. She also played Aiko Kasegawa on "Ultra Q".
1966: "Urutora Q" a.k.a. "Ultra Q" premieres on Japanese TV. The title monster in Episode 1, "Defeat Gomess", is a refurbished Godzilla costume.
1967: Episode 27 of "The Space Giants", "Kill the Traitor Sultan" a.k.a. "Gor Against Earth", debuts on Japanese TV.
1968: EVAN PARKE, who will play the first mate in Peter Jackson's remake of "King Kong", is born in Kingston, Jamaica.
1971: "Supekutoruman" ("Spectreman") premieres on Japanese TV with Episode 1, "Dr. Gori Aims at the Earth!".
1973: TAMAO SATO, who played Momo Maru a.k.a. Ohpink on "Superpower Task Force Ohranger", "Superpower Task Force Ohranger vs. Kakuranger", and "Highspeed Task Force Carranger vs. Ohranger", is born in Funabashi, Chiba, Japan. She was also in "Moon over Tao".
1976: "Kamen Rider: All Back Again! 7 Riders" premieres on Japanese TV.
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