Yūzō Kayama
Acting
Born April 11, 1937 · 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 Ve…
Known For · 40 titles
As If In Flight
Thunderbolt
Red Beard
The Great Chase
Sanjuro
Sir Galahad in Campus
Blood on the Sea
Come Marry Me
Good-bye Moscow
The Sword of Doom
Nagisa
Yearning
Admiral Yamamoto
The Battle of Okinawa
Japan's Longest Day
Chûshingura
Mount Hakone
Battle of the Japan Sea
Sun Above, Death Below
Mount Hakkoda
ESPY
Night in Bangkok
Two in the Shadow
Fright Time
Return of the Champ
Rough
Sanshiro Sugata
The Militarists
Campus A Go-Go
Zero
Blueprint of Murder
Attack Squadron
Operation Sewer Rats
Duel at Fort Ezo
Messengers
The Man from the East
Siege of Fort Bismarck
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
Warring Clans
We Will Remember