Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1937-04-11 (Age: 89)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Filmography (77)
Mr. Moonlight: The Beatles Budokan Performance 1966 - A Dream We Had Together
2023
Chigasaki Story - My Little Hometown
2017
Rough
2006
Nagisa
2000
Messengers
1999
Thunderbolt
1995
The Detective
1984
Zero
1984
Return of the Champ
1981
Mount Hakkoda
1977
ESPY
1974
Red Target
1972
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
Love Forsaken
1971
