Known For
Acting
Born
Apr 11, 1937
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Credits
81 titles
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
Filmography
Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
Rough
Nagisa
Messengers
Makoto Shimano
Thunderbolt
Coach Mirakami
As If In Flight
Shimazu Nariakira
The Detective
Isao Muramatsu
Zero
Manbei Shimokawa
Return of the Champ
Yūichi Tannuma
The Great Chase
Mount Hakkoda
Captain Kurata
なつかしき海の歌
ESPY
Hojo
Red Target
Akira Hino
The Battle of Okinawa
Love Forsaken
Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Young Guy, the Ace Rider
The Militarists
Goro Arai
Get Your Sky, Young Guy
Bravo, Young Guy
The Creature Called Man
Noboru Toda
Duel at Fort Ezo
Saburota Edo
Bullet Wound
Battle of the Japan Sea
Cmdr. Hirose
Young Guy on Mt. Cook
Futari no Koibito
Young Guy Graduates
Sun Above, Death Below
Young Challengers
Oshiba Records singer
My Brother, My Love
Teppei Kitagawa
Admiral Yamamoto
First Lieutenant Ijuin
Young Guy in Rio
Good-bye Moscow
The Promoter
Circuit-A-Go-Go
Two in the Shadow
Shiro Mishima
Japan's Longest Day
Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
Young Guy in the South Pacific
Yuichi Tanuma
Las Vegas Free-For-All
Zoku izuko e
Let's Go! Young Guy
Yuuichi Tanuma
Come Marry Me
Tamotsu Suyama
Forever With You
Yuzo Kayama
Zero Fighter
It Started In The Alps
Yuichi Tanuma
Night in Bangkok
Izuko e
The Sword of Doom
Hyoma Utsuki
Campus A Go-Go
Yuichi Tanuma