Yūzō Kayama

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-04-11 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 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 m...

Acting

1965

Red Beard

as Dr. Noboru Yasumoto

1962

Sanjuro

as Iori Izaka

1962

Chûshingura

as Lord Naganori Asano

1999

Messengers

as Makoto Shimano

1966

The Sword of Doom

as Hyoma Utsuki

1963

Attack Squadron

as Captain Shiro Taki

1969

1964

Yearning

as Koji Morita

1961

Different Sons

as Shoji Akagi

1977

Mount Hakkoda

as Captain Kurata

1974

ESPY

as Hojo

1961

Blueprint of Murder

as Jirô Kusaka

1970

1970

Duel at Fort Ezo

as Saburota Edo

1965

Young Guy at Sea

as 田沼真一(若大将)

1967

Two in the Shadow

as Shiro Mishima

1966

Young Ace in the Alps

as Yuichi Tanuma

1995

Thunderbolt

as Coach Mirakami

1965

Sanshiro Sugata

as Sanshiro Sugata

1968

Admiral Yamamoto

as First Lieutenant Ijuin

1984

Zero

as Manbei Shimokawa

1970

The Militarists

as Goro Arai

1960

Man Against Man

as Toshio Masue

1963

Warring Clans

as Ochi Kittan "Batta"

1965

Campus A Go-Go

as Yuichi Tanuma

1968

Good-bye Moscow

as The Promoter

1962

Pride of the Campus

as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)

1961

Sir Galahad in Campus

as Yuichi Tanuma (Wakadaisho)

1972

Red Target

as Akira Hino

1984

The Detective

as Isao Muramatsu

1968

My Brother, My Love

as Teppei Kitagawa

1967

Let's Go! Young Guy

as Yuuichi Tanuma

1962

College Champ

as Yuichi Tanuma

1968

Young Challengers

as Oshiba Records singer

1966

Come Marry Me

as Tamotsu Suyama

1966

Forever With You

as Yuzo Kayama

1962

1963

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster

1963

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