Yūzō Kayama

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

Known For: Acting

Born: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, 1937-04-11

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1960	Man Against Man	Toshio Masue	0
2	1960	Westward Desperado		62
3	1961	Blueprint of Murder	Jirô Kusaka	62
4	1961	Happiness of Us Alone	Akira	90
5	1961	Lovers of Ginza		0
6	1961	Big Shots Die at Dawn	Jiro	62
7	1961	Sir Galahad in Campus	Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)	0
8	1961	Blood on the Sea		0
9	1961	Different Sons	Shoji Akagi	0
10	1962	Sanjuro	Iori Izaka	80
11	1962	Pride of the Campus	Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)	0
12	1962	The Crimson Sky		0
13	1962	Operation Sewer Rats	Hayashi	0
14	1962	College Champ	Yuichi Tanuma	0
15	1962	Mount Hakone		0
16	1962	Chûshingura	Lord Naganori Asano	73
17	1962	Born in Sin		0
18	1963	Attack Squadron	Captain Shiro Taki	60
19	1963	Warring Clans	Ochi Kittan "Batta"	68
20	1963	Siege of Fort Bismarck		0
21	1963	The Young Ace in Hawaii	若大将	0
22	1963	The Sun is Calling You		0
23	1963	Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong	Jiro Okamoto	0
24	1964	Yearning	Koji Morita	81
25	1965	Red Beard	Dr. Noboru Yasumoto	81
26	1965	Sanshiro Sugata	Sanshiro Sugata	70
27	1965	Young Guy at Sea	田沼真一（若大将）	0
28	1965	Campus A Go-Go	Yuichi Tanuma	85
29	1966	The Sword of Doom	Hyoma Utsuki	77
30	1966	Izuko e		0
31	1966	Young Ace in the Alps	Yuichi Tanuma	0
32	1966	Zero Fighter		0
33	1966	Forever With You	Yuzo Kayama	0
34	1966	Come Marry Me	Tamotsu Suyama	60
35	1967	Let's Go! Young Guy	Yuuichi Tanuma	0
36	1967	Zoku izuko e		0
37	1967	Las Vegas Free-For-All		0
38	1967	The Young Ace in the South Pacific	Yuichi Tanuma	0
39	1967	Japan's Longest Day	Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster	71
40	1967	Two in the Shadow	Shiro Mishima	77
41	1967	Circuit-A-Go-Go		0
42	1968	Good-bye Moscow	The Promoter	0
43	1968	Young Guy in Rio		0
44	1968	Admiral Yamamoto	First Lieutenant Ijuin	83
45	1968	My Brother, My Love	Teppei Kitagawa	0
46	1968	Young Challengers	Oshiba Records singer	0
47	1968	Sun Above, Death Below		60
48	1969	Young Guy - Freshman		0
49	1969	Futari no Koibito		0
50	1969	Young Guy in New Zealand		0
51	1969	Battle of the Japan Sea	Cmdr. Hirose	60
52	1969	Bullet Wound		60
53	1970	Duel at Fort Ezo	Saburota Edo	54
54	1970	The Creature Called Man	Noboru Toda	60
55	1970	Bravo, Young Guy		0
56	1970	Young Guy - The Sky is Ours!		0
57	1970	The Militarists	Goro Arai	80
58	1971	Wakadaisho vs Aodaisho		0
59	1971	Detective Story: A Brother's Rule		0
60	1971	Love Forsaken		0
61	1971	The Battle of Okinawa		75
62	1972	Red Target	Akira Hino	60
63	1974	ESPY	Hojo	56
64	1977	Mount Hakkoda	Captain Kurata	64
65	1984	Zero	Manbei Shimokawa	42
66	1984	The Detective	Isao Muramatsu	0
67	1995	Thunderbolt	Coach Mirakami	64
68	1999	Messengers	Makoto Shimano	60
69	2017	Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown		0
70	2023	Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together		80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	The Great Chase		0
2	1990	As If In Flight	Shimazu Nariakira	60

Yūzō Kayama

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