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