Kiyoshi Kodama
Kiyoshi Kodama was a Japanese TV personality and actor. He hosted the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation 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.
Kodama died of stomach cancer at a hospital in Chuo, Tokyo on 16 May 2011.
Works
Film
- The Hidden Fortress
- The Bad Sleep Well|
- Salaryman Chushingura - Okano
- Salaryman Chushingura 2 - Okano
- Eternity of Love - Junkichi Ishiyama
- Kuroi gashû: Aru sonan - Hideo Iwase
- Chūshingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki - Han'nojo Sugaya
- Kokusai himitsu keisatsu: Shirei dai hachigo - Anzai
- Onna no rekishi
- Danchi: Nanatsu no taizai - Kôji Kawashima
- Taiheiyô kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka - Fukumoto
- Senjo ni nagareru uta
- Japan's Longest Day - Chamberlain Yasuhide Toda
- Battle of the Japan Sea
- Yoba - Ihara
- Steamboy - Robert Stephenson
- Hero - Toshimitsu Nabeshima
Drama
- NHK taiga drama series
- *Ōgon no Hibi - Tokugawa Ieyasu
- *Shishi no Jidai - Mizuhoya Usaburō
- *Sanga Moyu - Fumiya Shimaki
- *Takeda Shingen - Obu Toramasa
- *Taiheiki - Hōjō Sadaaki
- *Ryomaden - Sakamoto Hachihei
- Arigato
- Hana wa Hanayome
- Shiroi Kyotō - Hitoshi Sekiguchi
- Omoide Zukuri
- Musashibō Benkei - Togashi Yasuie
- Hero - Toshimitsu Nabeshima
- Hero Special
- Shikaotoko Aoniyoshi
- Code Blue - Tadokoro Yoshiaki
Other TV programmes
- Toli Quiz Yes-No
- Panel Quiz Attack 25
- Surprising Law Travel Agency
- Welcome to the words house
Radio
- Telephone Counseling
- ''Selection of Shuhei Fujisawa's Works''