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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Thunderbolt
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As If In Flight
1990
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The Detective
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Zero
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大追跡
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Mount Hakkoda
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Red Target
1972
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The Battle of Okinawa
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Love Forsaken
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Detective Story: A Brother's Rule
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The Militarists
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as Goro Arai
Bravo, Young Guy
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The Creature Called Man
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Duel at Fort Ezo
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Bullet Wound
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Battle of the Japan Sea
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Futari no Koibito
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Sun Above, Death Below
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Young Challengers
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My Brother, My Love
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Admiral Yamamoto
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Good-bye Moscow
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as The Promoter
Two in the Shadow
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as Shiro Mishima
Japan's Longest Day
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as Morio Tateno - NHK Broadcaster
The Young Ace in the South Pacific
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as Yuichi Tanuma
Las Vegas Free-For-All
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Zoku izuko e
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Let's Go! Young Guy
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Come Marry Me
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as Tamotsu Suyama
Forever With You
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Zero Fighter
1966
Arupusu no wakadaishô
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as Yuichi Tanuma
The Sword of Doom
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Campus A Go-Go
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Young Guy at Sea
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Red Beard
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Yearning
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The Sun is Calling You
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The Young Ace in Hawaii
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Warring Clans
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as Ochi Kittan "Batta"
Attack Squadron
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as Captain Shiro Taki
Born in Sin
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47 Ronin
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as Lord Naganori Asano
Mount Hakone
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College Champ
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as Yuichi Tanuma
Operation Sewer Rats
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as Hayashi
The Crimson Sky
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Pride of the Campus
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Sanjuro
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Different Sons
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Blood on the Sea
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Sir Galahad in Campus
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Big Shots Die at Dawn
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as Jiro
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Westward Desperado
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Man Against Man
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