Hajime Koizumi

Hajime Koizumi Born April 8, 1926 Saitama, Japan Occupation Cinematographer, director of special effects First work Jōen Ichidai Onna (1951)

Hajime Koizumi (小泉一,   Koizumi Hajime) is a Japanese cinematographer and special effects director. After graduating from the Japan Institute of the Moving Image in 1945, he joined Toho as an assistant cinematographer. Following his work on The Legend of the White Serpent in 1956, he was promoted to a full-time cinematographer, and went on to serve as the director of photography for a number of the studio's tokusatsu productions until the late 1960s. In 1966, he acted as the director of special effects for three episodes of Tsuburaya Productions' series Ultra Q, and later returned to the company between 1972 and 1973 as a cinematographer for Ultraman Ace.

Selected Filmography

Cinematographer / Director of Photography

• The Legend of the White Serpent (1956) - Assistant
• The Mysterians (1957)
• The H-Man (1958)
• Varan (1958)
• Battle in Outer Space (1959)
• The Human Vapor (1960)
• Mothra (1961)
• Gorath (1962)
• King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
• Matango (1963)
• Atragon (1963)
• Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964)
• Dogora (1964)
• Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)
• Frankenstein vs. Baragon (1965)
• Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965)
• The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
• King Kong Escapes (1967)
• Ultraman Ace (TV 1972-1973) [unknown number of episodes]

Director of Special Effects

• Ultra Q (TV 1966-1967) [episodes 1, 6, 9]

External Links

• Hajime Koizumi on Toho Official Site