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
Known For
Thunderbolt
Red Beard
Sanjuro
The Great Chase
As If In Flight
The Sword of Doom
Chûshingura
Futari no Koibito
All Movies (77)
- Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together2023
- Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown2017
- Rough2006
- Nagisa2000
- Messengers1999 · as Makoto Shimano
- Thunderbolt1995 · as Coach Mirakami
- The Detective1984 · as Isao Muramatsu
- Zero1984 · as Manbei Shimokawa
- Return of the Champ1981 · as Yūichi Tannuma
- Mount Hakkoda1977 · as Captain Kurata
- ESPY1974 · as Hojo
- Red Target1972 · as Akira Hino
- The Battle of Okinawa1971
- Love Forsaken1971
- Detective Story: A Brother's Rule1971
- Young Guy, the Ace Rider1971
- The Militarists1970 · as Goro Arai
- Get Your Sky, Young Guy1970
- Bravo, Young Guy1970
- The Creature Called Man1970 · as Noboru Toda
- Duel at Fort Ezo1970 · as Saburota Edo
- Bullet Wound1969
- Battle of the Japan Sea1969 · as Cmdr. Hirose
- Young Guy on Mt. Cook1969
- Futari no Koibito1969
- Young Guy Graduates1969
- Sun Above, Death Below1968
- Young Challengers1968 · as Oshiba Records singer
- My Brother, My Love1968 · as Teppei Kitagawa
- Admiral Yamamoto1968 · as First Lieutenant Ijuin
- Young Guy in Rio1968
- Good-bye Moscow1968 · as The Promoter
- Circuit-A-Go-Go1967
- Two in the Shadow1967 · as Shiro Mishima
- Japan's Longest Day1967 · as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
- Young Guy in the South Pacific1967 · as Yuichi Tanuma
- Las Vegas Free-For-All1967
- Zoku izuko e1967
- Let's Go! Young Guy1967 · as Yuuichi Tanuma
- Come Marry Me1966 · as Tamotsu Suyama
- Forever With You1966 · as Yuzo Kayama
- Zero Fighter1966
- It Started In The Alps1966 · as Yuichi Tanuma
- Night in Bangkok1966
- Izuko e1966
- The Sword of Doom1966 · as Hyoma Utsuki
- Campus A Go-Go1965 · as Yuichi Tanuma
- We Will Remember1965 · as Lieutenant Konuma
- Young Guy at Sea1965 · as 田沼真一（若大将）
- Sanshiro Sugata1965 · as Sanshiro Sugata
- Red Beard1965 · as Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
- Fright Time1964
- Yearning1964 · as Koji Morita
- The Sun is Calling You1963
- Young Guy in Hawaii1963 · as 若大将
- Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong1963 · as Jiro Okamoto
- Siege of Fort Bismarck1963
- Warring Clans1963 · as Ochi Kittan "Batta"
- Attack Squadron1963 · as Captain Shiro Taki
- Born in Sin1962
- Chûshingura1962 · as Lord Naganori Asano
- Mount Hakone1962
- College Champ1962 · as Yuichi Tanuma
- Operation Sewer Rats1962 · as Hayashi
- The Crimson Sky1962
- Pride of the Campus1962 · as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
- Sanjuro1962 · as Iori Izaka
- Different Sons1961 · as Shoji Akagi
- Blood on the Sea1961
- Sir Galahad in Campus1961 · as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
- Big Shots Die at Dawn1961 · as Jiro
- The Man from the East1961 · as Kenta Hasebe
- Happiness of Us Alone1961 · as Akira
- Lovers of Ginza1961
- Blueprint of Murder1961 · as Jirô Kusaka
- Westward Desperado1960
- Man Against Man1960 · as Toshio Masue
All TV Shows (3)
- As If In Flight1990 · as Shimazu Nariakira
- The Great Chase1978
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