was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan. Until March 31, 2018, it was a unified radio and television broadcaster serving in the Kansai region. On April 1, 2018, its radio and television broadcasting divisions ...

quiz show '' Panel Quiz Attack 25'' continuously for thirty-six years from its start in April 1975 until he was forced to step down due to poor health at the end of March 2011. His signature catchphrase on the show is " Attack Chance!" An avid reader, Kodama hosted a TV book review show. He also published his own books. He was a voice actor for the voice of Robert Stephenson in the Japanese version of the 2004 animated movie ''

Steamboy is a 2004 Anime, Japanese animated steampunk action film directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Bandai Namco Filmworks, Sunrise, it is his second major anime as a director, following ''Akira (1988 film), Akira'' (1988). The fi ...

''. Kodama died of

stomach cancer Stomach cancer, also known as gastric cancer, is a malignant tumor of the stomach. It is a cancer that develops in the Gastric mucosa, lining of the stomach. Most cases of stomach cancers are gastric carcinomas, which can be divided into a numb ...

at a hospital in Chuo, Tokyo on 16 May 2011.

Works

Film

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The Hidden Fortress is a 1958 Japanese ''epic jidaigeki'' adventure film directed by Akira Kurosawa, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya. It tells the story of two peasants who agree to escort a man and a woman across enemy lines in return for gold without knowi ...

'' (1958,

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) *''

The Bad Sleep Well is a 1960 Japanese neo-noir crime mystery film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. It was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival. The film stars ...

'', (1960, Toho) * (1960, Toho) - Okano * (1960, Toho) - Okano * (1961, Toho) - Junkichi Ishiyama *''Kuroi gashû: Aru sonan'' (1961) - Hideo Iwase *'' Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki'' (1962) - Han'nojo Sugaya *''Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Shirei dai hachigo'' (1963) - Anzai *''Onna no rekishi'' (1963) *''Danchi: Nanatsu no taizai'' (1964) - Kôji Kawashima *''Taiheiyô kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka'' (1965) - Fukumoto *''Senjo ni nagareru uta'' (1965) *''

Japan's Longest Day is a 1967 Japanese epic film, epic war film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. The subject of the majority of the movie is the period between noon on August 14, 1945, and noon on August 15, 1945, when Emperor Hirohito's decision to surrender to the ...

'' (1967, Toho) - Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda *'' Battle of the Japan Sea'' (1969, Toho) *''Yoba'' (1976) - Ihara *''

'' (2004, Toho) - Robert Stephenson (voice) *''

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'' (2007, Toho) - Toshimitsu Nabeshima

Drama

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drama'' series **'' Ōgon no Hibi'' (1978) -

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**''Shishi no Jidai'' (1980) - Mizuhoya Usaburō **''

Sanga Moyu ''Sanga Moyu'' (山河燃ゆ) is a Japanese television drama based on the 1983 novel ''Futatsu no Sokoku'' (二つの祖国) by Toyoko Yamazaki. It was NHK's taiga drama in 1984. Synopsis The Amo family lives in Los Angeles, California. Two of ...

'' (1984) - Fumiya Shimaki **''

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'' (1988) - Obu Toramasa **''

Taiheiki The (Chronicle of Great Peace) is a medieval Japanese historical epic (see '' gunki monogatari'') written in the late 14th century and covers the period from 1319 to 1367. It deals primarily with the Nanboku-chō, the period of war between the ...

'' (1991) -

Hōjō Sadaaki was the 12th ''rensho'' (1315–1326) and 15th ''shikken'' (19 April 1326 – 29 April 1326) of the Kamakura shogunate The was the feudal military government of Japan during the Kamakura period from 1185 to 1333. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. ...

**'' Ryomaden'' (2010) - Sakamoto Hachihei * (1970–1974, TBS) * (1971–1975, NTV) *''

Shiroi Kyotō is a 1965 novel by Toyoko Yamasaki. It has been adapted into a film in 1966 and then five times as a television series in 1967, 1978, 1990, 2003, and 2019. The 1966 film was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a ...

'' (1978,

Fuji TV JOCX-DTV (channel 8), branded as or , is a Japanese television station that serves the Kantō region as the flagship (broadcasting), flagship station of the Fuji News Network (FNN) and the Fuji Network System (FNS). The station is owned-and- ...

) - Hitoshi Sekiguchi *'' Omoide Zukuri'' (1981, TBS) *''Musashibō Benkei'' (1986, NHK) - Togashi Yasuie *''

'' (2001, Fuji TV) - Toshimitsu Nabeshima * (2006, Fuji TV) * (2008, Fuji TV) *'' Code Blue'' (2008–2010, Fuji TV) - Tadokoro Yoshiaki

Other TV programmes

* (1974–1975, Mainichi Broadcasting System, Inc.) * (1975–2011,

) * (2007–2009,

General TV) * Welcome to the words house (NTV)

Radio

* (2003–2011, Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. (LF)) * (2009–2011, LF)

After his death

Asahi Broadcasting Corporation broadcast the special nationwide programme of "Attack 25" on the 22nd day of May 2011 to mourn his death. In the programme, two Asahi presenters Yasuyuki Urakawa and Akiko Kato told viewers all over Japan about Kiyoshi Kodama and the 36-year history of "Attack 25", showing famous scenes in "Attack 25" including his signature Attack Chance catchphrase, treasured pictures of him owned by TV Asahi, and comments of memories from special guests. Urakawa who substituted for Kodama since April 2011, hosted ''Attack 25'' until March 2015, after which he was replaced by Shōsuke Tanihara.

References

External links

Official website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kodama, Kiyoshi 1934 births 2011 deaths Deaths from stomach cancer in Japan Male actors from Tokyo Japanese male film actors Japanese male television actors Japanese television personalities Gakushuin University alumni 21st-century Japanese male actors