Yūzō Kayama
Born: 1937-04-11 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known For: Acting
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
Filmography
2006
2000
1999
- Messengers as Makoto Shimano
1995
- Thunderbolt as Coach Mirakami
1990
- As If In Flight as Shimazu Nariakira
1984
- Zero as Manbei Shimokawa
- The Detective as Isao Muramatsu
1981
- Return of the Champ as Yūichi Tannuma
1978
1977
- Mount Hakkoda as Captain Kurata
1974
- ESPY as Hojo
1972
- Red Target as Akira Hino
1970
- The Militarists as Goro Arai
- Duel at Fort Ezo as Saburota Edo
- The Creature Called Man as Noboru Toda
- Get Your Sky, Young Guy
- Bravo, Young Guy
1969
1968
- Admiral Yamamoto as First Lieutenant Ijuin
- My Brother, My Love as Teppei Kitagawa
- Young Challengers as Oshiba Records singer
- Young Guy in Rio
- Sun Above, Death Below
- Good-bye Moscow as The Promoter
1967
- Japan's Longest Day as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
- Two in the Shadow as Shiro Mishima
- Young Guy in the South Pacific as Yuichi Tanuma
- Las Vegas Free-For-All
- Let's Go! Young Guy as Yuuichi Tanuma
- Zoku izuko e
- Circuit-A-Go-Go
1966
- The Sword of Doom as Hyoma Utsuki
- Zero Fighter
- It Started In The Alps as Yuichi Tanuma
- Forever With You as Yuzo Kayama
- Izuko e
- Come Marry Me as Tamotsu Suyama
- Night in Bangkok
1965
- Red Beard as Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
- Sanshiro Sugata as Sanshiro Sugata
- Young Guy at Sea as 田沼真一（若大将）
- Campus A Go-Go as Yuichi Tanuma
- We Will Remember as Lieutenant Konuma
1964
- Yearning as Koji Morita
- Fright Time
1963
- Attack Squadron as Captain Shiro Taki
- Warring Clans as Ochi Kittan "Batta"
- Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong as Jiro Okamoto
- Young Guy in Hawaii as 若大将
- Siege of Fort Bismarck
- The Sun is Calling You
1962
- Sanjuro as Iori Izaka
- Chûshingura as Lord Naganori Asano
- Born in Sin
- Operation Sewer Rats as Hayashi
- Mount Hakone
- The Crimson Sky
- Pride of the Campus as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
- College Champ as Yuichi Tanuma
1961
- Big Shots Die at Dawn as Jiro
- Blueprint of Murder as Jirô Kusaka
- Happiness of Us Alone as Akira
- Lovers of Ginza
- Sir Galahad in Campus as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
- Different Sons as Shoji Akagi
- The Man from the East as Kenta Hasebe
- Blood on the Sea
1960
- Westward Desperado
- Man Against Man as Toshio Masue