{"id":36381,"date":"2017-08-07T15:03:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.animenation.net\/?p=36381"},"modified":"2017-08-07T15:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T19:03:50","slug":"rip-haruo-nakajima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/rip-haruo-nakajima\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Haruo Nakajima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"715\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima.jpg 985w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima-768x901.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima-384x450.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Veteran Japanese actor Haruo Nakajima passed away today, August 7, 2017, at the age of 88. One of Nakajima&#8217;s earliest roles was a bit part in Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s masterpiece <em>The Seven Samurai<\/em>. Nakajima&#8217;s claim to fame is serving as the actor inside the <em>Godzilla<\/em> suit for the monster&#8217;s first 13 features. Nakajima also starred in genre TV series <em>Ultra Q<\/em> and <em>Ultra Seven<\/em>, and films including <em>Rodan<\/em>, <em>Mothra<\/em>, <em>The Mysterians<\/em>, <em>Matango<\/em>, <em>Frankenstein Conquers the World<\/em>, <em>War of the Gargantuas<\/em>, <em>Latitude Zero<\/em>, and <em>Space Amoeba<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"605\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/a76bb5442a3d3be2af120a47dc500659-film-culte-old-movies-450x446.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Japanese actor Haruo Nakajima passed away today, August 7, 2017, at the age of 88. One of Nakajima&#8217;s earliest roles was a bit part in Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s masterpiece The Seven Samurai. Nakajima&#8217;s claim to fame is serving as the actor inside the Godzilla suit for the monster&#8217;s first 13 features. Nakajima also starred in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haruo_Nakajima.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36385,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36381\/revisions\/36385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}