Yûzô Kayama
Birthday: 1937-04-11 | Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, JapanFrom 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
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as Makoto Shimano
as Coach Mirakami
as Shimazu Nariakira
as Manbei Shimokawa
as Captain Kurata
as Hojo
as Akira Hino
as Goro Arai
as Noboru Toda
as Saburota Edo
as Cmdr. Hirose
as First Lieutenant Ijuin
as Teppei Kitagawa
as Shiro Mishima
as Yuuichi Tanuma
