Yūzō Kayama
Birthday: 1937-04-11
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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
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Red Beard
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
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Sanjuro
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Messengers
Naomi Shimizu is a young career woman working for Enrico Dandolo, an Italian fashion house. That is ...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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Attack Squadron
Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes ...
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The Sun is Calling You
A man with a dark past comes from Tokyo to the fishing port of Izu, and tries to begin a new life as...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japane...
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Yearning
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years ...
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Different Sons
In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over ...
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Mount Hakkoda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...
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The Battle of Okinawa
The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imp...
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ESPY
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesa...
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Blueprint of Murder
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is ...
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Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
Chigasaki is a land of entertainment, which produces many entertainers. Junichi Miyaji is a record c...
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The Creature Called Man
A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends wi...
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Zoku izuko e
Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka....
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Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Young Guy at Sea
Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy re...
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Two in the Shadow
A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to ...
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It Started In The Alps
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa....
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Thunderbolt
In order to release his kidnapped sister, sports car mechanic, Chan Foh To, has to defeat a super-cr...
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Young Guy in the South Pacific
The 10th film in the Wakadaisho series, the Young Ace Yuichi Tanuma travels to Hawaii to train in de...
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Sanshiro Sugata
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshi...
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Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is ...
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he...
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Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
The documentary about how Beatles went popular in Japan and did a concert in Budokan back in 1966....
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Zero
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilo...
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Westward Desperado
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anyt...
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Man Against Man
Kikumori runs a cabaret on the docks, while his friend Kaji operates transport boats. When a gang of...
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Warring Clans
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan a...
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Las Vegas Free-For-All
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures through...
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Campus A Go-Go
Young Guy (Kayama) competes in an electric guitar competition and plays American-style football. Rel...
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Good-bye Moscow
Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to...
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Pride of the Campus
Young Yuichi (Kayama) romances Sumiko (Hoshi) while helping out at his family's restaurant, singing ...
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Sir Galahad in Campus
The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series....
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Born in Sin
A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery....
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Red Target
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers...
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The Detective
Detective Muramatsu's wife, Fusae, is killed by a drug addict. After the criminal climbs to the roof...
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Let's Go! Young Guy
College student Yuichi Tanuma is fired up for Nationals where his university Kyonan will face off ag...
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College Champ
Yuuichi Tanuma, our young hero, is a senior at Kyonan University and captain of the marathon team. H...
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Young Challengers
A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based...
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Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a scho...
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Come Marry Me
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sis...
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Operation Sewer Rats
Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese ...
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Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
Iwabuchi of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division cooperates with Kubo of the ...
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Sun Above, Death Below
Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract su...
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Bullet Wound
Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an ...
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Young Guy in Hawaii
Fourth entry in Toho's Wakadaishō series directed by Jun Fukuda and released on a simultaneous scree...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
The third and final chapter of MP & GI's Toho Trilogy expands the geographical reach of the franchis...
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Young Guy in Rio
Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his profe...
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Return of the Champ
A not-so-young "Young Guy" (Kayama) returns in this reunion feature, which takes Yuichi and Ishiyama...
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Rough
A diver on the university team must decide which of her two childhood friends she loves, and they're...
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Nagisa
Set in the late 60s in a small seaside town, this coming of age drama centres on a young girl named ...
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The Man from the East
Kenta (Kayama), a boxer-turned-wandering minstrel becomes involved in a yakuza plot to rid slum dwel...
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Fright Time
A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, con...
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We Will Remember
Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front line...
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Night in Bangkok
Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealt...
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