Yūzō Kayama
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Yūzō Kayama (加山 雄三 Kayama Yūzō) is a Japanese popular musician and film star, born on 11 April 1937. His father, Ken Uehara, was a film star during the 1930s. Yuzo Kayama became a big star in the 1960s in the Wakadaishō (Young Guy) film series. He showed his ability for drama when Akira Kurosawa cast him for his 1965 film, Red Beard, starring Toshirō Mifune. Kayama reported that he found the two years spent making this film the most difficult, but proudest work of his life. As a guitarist, he took inspiration from the American instrumental group The Ventures, and performed a form of psychedelic surf music in the 1960s with his Mosrite guitar. One of his best-known instrumentals is "Black Sand Beach". "Kimi to Itsumademo" ("Love Forever"), another of his compositions, sold over two million copies, and was awarded a gold disc in 1965. At that point it was the biggest selling disc in the Japanese recording industry's history. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yūzō Kayama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Movies (48)
Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
2023
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
2017
Rough
2006
Nagisa
2000
Messengers
as Makoto Shimano
1999
Thunderbolt
as Coach Mirakami
1995
The Detective
as Isao Muramatsu
1984
Zero
as Manbei Shimokawa
1984
Return of the Champ
as Yūichi Tannuma
1981
Mount Hakkoda
as Captain Kurata
1977
ESPY
as Hojo
1974
Red Target
as Akira Hino
1972
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
Love Forsaken
1971
Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
1971
Young Guy, the Ace Rider
1971
The Militarists
as Goro Arai
1970
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1970
Bravo, Young Guy
1970
The Creature Called Man
as Noboru Toda
1970
Duel at Fort Ezo
as Saburota Edo
1970
Bullet Wound
1969
Battle of the Japan Sea
as Cmdr. Hirose
1969
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
1969
Futari no Koibito
1969
Young Guy Graduates
1969
Sun Above, Death Below
1968
Young Challengers
as Oshiba Records singer
1968
My Brother, My Love
as Teppei Kitagawa
1968
Admiral Yamamoto
as First Lieutenant Ijuin
1968
Young Guy in Rio
1968
Good-bye Moscow
as The Promoter
1968
Circuit-A-Go-Go
1967
Two in the Shadow
as Shiro Mishima
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
1967
Young Guy in the South Pacific
as Yuichi Tanuma
1967
Las Vegas Free-For-All
1967
Zoku izuko e
1967
Let's Go! Young Guy
as Yuuichi Tanuma
1967
Come Marry Me
as Tamotsu Suyama
1966
Forever With You
as Yuzo Kayama
1966
Zero Fighter
1966
It Started In The Alps
as Yuichi Tanuma
1966
Night in Bangkok
1966
Izuko e
1966
The Sword of Doom
as Hyoma Utsuki
1966
Campus A Go-Go
as Yuichi Tanuma
1965
We Will Remember
as Lieutenant Konuma
1965
