
Yūzō Kayama
Biography
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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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Acting (70 movies)

Red Beard
1965

Sanjuro
1962

Chûshingura
1962

Messengers
1999

The Crimson Sky
1962

The Sword of Doom
1966

Attack Squadron
1963

Futari no Koibito
1969

The Sun is Calling You
1963

Battle of the Japan Sea
1969

Yearning
1964

Different Sons
1961

Mount Hakkoda
1977

The Battle of Okinawa
1971

ESPY
1974

Blueprint of Murder
1961

Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
2017

The Creature Called Man
1970

Zoku izuko e
1967

Duel at Fort Ezo
1970

Young Guy at Sea
1965

Two in the Shadow
1967

Young Ace in the Alps
1966

Thunderbolt
1995

Young Guy in the South Pacific
1967

Bravo, Young Guy
1970

Sanshiro Sugata
1965

Admiral Yamamoto
1968

Big Shots Die at Dawn
1961

Mount Hakone
1962

Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
2023

Zero
1984

Zero Fighter
1966

The Militarists
1970

Westward Desperado
1960

Siege of Fort Bismarck
1963

Love Forsaken
1971

Man Against Man
1960

Warring Clans
1963

Las Vegas Free-For-All
1967

Campus A Go-Go
1965

Good-bye Moscow
1968

Pride of the Campus
1962

Sir Galahad in Campus
1961

Born in Sin
1962

Red Target
1972

The Detective
1984

My Brother, My Love
1968

Let's Go! Young Guy
1967

College Champ
1962

Young Challengers
1968

Happiness of Us Alone
1961

Come Marry Me
1966

Blood on the Sea
1961

Forever With You
1966

Operation Sewer Rats
1962

Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
1971

Sun Above, Death Below
1968

Bullet Wound
1969

Young Guy in Hawaii
1963

Japan's Longest Day
1967

Honolulu, Tokyo, Hong Kong
1963

Circuit-A-Go-Go
1967

Young Guy in Rio
1968

Young Guy Graduates
1969

Young Guy on Mt. Cook
1969

Get Your Sky, Young Guy
1970

Young Guy, the Ace Rider
1971

Lovers of Ginza
1961

Izuko e
1966
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