Yūzō Kayama
Acting • Born 1937-04-11
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
79 credits
Red Beard
Movie • 1965
Dr. Noboru Yasumoto
Sanjuro
Movie • 1962
Iori Izaka
Chûshingura
Movie • 1962
Lord Naganori Asano
Messengers
Movie • 1999
Makoto Shimano
The Crimson Sky
Movie • 1962
The Sword of Doom
Movie • 1966
Hyoma Utsuki
Attack Squadron
Movie • 1963
Captain Shiro Taki
Futari no Koibito
Movie • 1969
The Sun is Calling You
Movie • 1963
Battle of the Japan Sea
Movie • 1969
Cmdr. Hirose
Yearning
Movie • 1964
Koji Morita
Different Sons
Movie • 1961
Shoji Akagi
Mount Hakkoda
Movie • 1977
Captain Kurata
The Battle of Okinawa
Movie • 1971
ESPY
Movie • 1974
Hojo
Blueprint of Murder
Movie • 1961
Jirô Kusaka
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
Movie • 2017
The Creature Called Man
Movie • 1970
Noboru Toda
Zoku izuko e
Movie • 1967
Duel at Fort Ezo
Movie • 1970
Saburota Edo
Young Guy at Sea
Movie • 1965
田沼真一（若大将）
Two in the Shadow
Movie • 1967
Shiro Mishima
It Started In The Alps
Movie • 1966
Yuichi Tanuma
Thunderbolt
Movie • 1995
Coach Mirakami
Young Guy in the South Pacific
Movie • 1967
Yuichi Tanuma
Bravo, Young Guy
Movie • 1970
Sanshiro Sugata
Movie • 1965
Sanshiro Sugata
Admiral Yamamoto
Movie • 1968
First Lieutenant Ijuin
Big Shots Die at Dawn
Movie • 1961
Jiro
Mount Hakone
Movie • 1962
Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
Movie • 2023
Zero
Movie • 1984
Manbei Shimokawa
Zero Fighter
Movie • 1966
The Militarists
Movie • 1970
Goro Arai
Westward Desperado
Movie • 1960
Siege of Fort Bismarck
Movie • 1963
Love Forsaken
Movie • 1971
Man Against Man
Movie • 1960
Toshio Masue
Warring Clans
Movie • 1963
Ochi Kittan "Batta"
Las Vegas Free-For-All
Movie • 1967
Campus A Go-Go
Movie • 1965
Yuichi Tanuma
Good-bye Moscow
Movie • 1968
The Promoter
Sir Galahad in Campus
Movie • 1961
Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
Pride of the Campus
Movie • 1962
Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)
Born in Sin
Movie • 1962
Red Target
Movie • 1972
Akira Hino
The Detective
Movie • 1984
Isao Muramatsu
My Brother, My Love
Movie • 1968
Teppei Kitagawa
Let's Go! Young Guy
Movie • 1967
Yuuichi Tanuma
College Champ
Movie • 1962
Yuichi Tanuma
Young Challengers
Movie • 1968
Oshiba Records singer
Happiness of Us Alone
Movie • 1961
Akira
Come Marry Me
Movie • 1966
Tamotsu Suyama
Blood on the Sea
Movie • 1961
Forever With You
Movie • 1966
Yuzo Kayama
Operation Sewer Rats
Movie • 1962
Hayashi
Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Movie • 1971
Sun Above, Death Below
Movie • 1968
Bullet Wound
Movie • 1969
Young Guy in Hawaii
Movie • 1963
若大将
Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
Movie • 1963
Jiro Okamoto
Circuit-A-Go-Go
Movie • 1967
Young Guy in Rio
Movie • 1968
Young Guy Graduates
Movie • 1969
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
Movie • 1969
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
Movie • 1970
Young Guy, the Ace Rider
Movie • 1971
Lovers of Ginza
Movie • 1961
Izuko e
Movie • 1966
Return of the Champ
Movie • 1981
Yūichi Tannuma
Rough
Movie • 2006
Nagisa
Movie • 2000
The Man from the East
Movie • 1961
Kenta Hasebe
Fright Time
Movie • 1964
We Will Remember
Movie • 1965
Lieutenant Konuma
Night in Bangkok
Movie • 1966
The Great Chase
TV • 1978
As If In Flight
TV • 1990
Shimazu Nariakira