Yūzō Kayama
Known for: Acting
Born: April 11, 1937
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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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Filmography
77 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
8.0
Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
2023
NR
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
2017
5.0
Rough
2006
7.0
Nagisa
2000
6.5
Messengers
1999
6.5
Thunderbolt
1995
6.0
As If In Flight
1990
NR
The Detective
1984
6.1
Zero
1984
10.0
Return of the Champ
1981
NR
The Great Chase
1978
6.6
Mount Hakkoda
1977NR
なつかしき海の歌
1975
5.4
ESPY
1974
6.0
Red Target
1972
7.8
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
NR
Love Forsaken
1971
NR
Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
1971
NR
Young Guy, the Ace Rider
1971
7.5
The Militarists
1970
6.0
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1970
7.0
Bravo, Young Guy
1970
7.5
The Creature Called Man
1970
5.8
Duel at Fort Ezo
1970
8.0
Bullet Wound
1969
6.4
Battle of the Japan Sea
1969
6.5
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
1969
7.0
Futari no Koibito
1969
6.5
Young Guy Graduates
1969
7.5
Sun Above, Death Below
1968
8.0
Young Challengers
1968
10.0
My Brother, My Love
1968
8.5
Admiral Yamamoto
1968
6.0
Young Guy in Rio
1968
7.0
Good-bye Moscow
1968
6.0
Circuit-A-Go-Go
1967
7.8
Two in the Shadow
1967
7.3
Japan's Longest Day
1967
7.0
Young Guy in the South Pacific
1967
10.0
Las Vegas Free-For-All
1967
NR
Zoku izuko e
1967
7.5
Let's Go! Young Guy
1967
7.0
Come Marry Me
1966
6.5
Forever With You
1966
10.0
Zero Fighter
1966
8.0
It Started In The Alps
1966
9.0
Night in Bangkok
1966
7.0
Izuko e
1966
7.8
The Sword of Doom
1966
8.0
Campus A Go-Go
1965
10.0
We Will Remember
1965
7.5
Young Guy at Sea
1965
7.1
Sanshiro Sugata
1965
8.2
Red Beard
1965
NR
Fright Time
1964
8.1
Yearning
1964
9.0
The Sun is Calling You
1963
6.5
Young Guy in Hawaii
1963
7.0
Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
1963
7.0
Siege of Fort Bismarck
1963
6.7
Warring Clans
1963
7.0
Attack Squadron
1963
9.0
Born in Sin
1962
7.1
Chûshingura
1962
7.0
Mount Hakone
1962
7.5
College Champ
1962
7.0
Operation Sewer Rats
1962
9.0
The Crimson Sky
1962
8.3
Pride of the Campus
1962
7.9
Sanjuro
1962
7.0
Different Sons
1961
NR
Blood on the Sea
1961
7.0
Sir Galahad in Campus
1961
6.4
Big Shots Die at Dawn
1961
8.0
The Man from the East
1961
9.0
Happiness of Us Alone
1961
7.0
Lovers of Ginza
1961
6.4
Blueprint of Murder
1961
6.1
Westward Desperado
1960
7.0
Man Against Man
1960
NR
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