Yūzō Kayama
Yūzō Kayama | |||||
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加山 雄三 | |||||
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Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, actor | ||||
Years active | 1960–present | ||||
Japanese name | |||||
Kanji | 加山 雄三 | ||||
Hiragana | かやま ゆうぞう | ||||
Katakana | カヤマ ユウゾウ | ||||
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Website | www |
Yūzō Kayama (加山 雄三, Kayama Yūzō, born April 11, 1937) is a Japanese popular musician, singer-songwriter and actor. His father, Ken Uehara, was a film star during the mid-twentieth century. Yuzo Kayama became a 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.
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.[1] At that point it was the biggest selling disc in the Japanese recording industry's history.[1]
In March 2016, Kayama made a special art piece to commemorate 2,500,000 million downloads for the mobile game Terra Battle, that is featured as the background for the game's title screen.[2]
Filmography
Films
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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1961 | Daigaku no Wakadaishō | Yuichi Tanuma | Toshio Sugie | Lead role |
1962 | Chushingura: Hana no Maki, Yuki no Maki | Asano Naganori | Hiroshi Inagaki | |
Ginza no Wakadaishō | Yuichi Tanuma | Toshio Sugie | Lead role | |
Nihon-ichi no Wakadaishō | Yuichi Tanuma | Jun Fukuda | Lead role | |
Sanjuro | Iori Izaka | Akira Kurosawa | ||
1963 | Sengoku Yaro | Kittan | Kihachi Okamoto | Lead role |
1964 | Yearning | Koji Morita | Mikio Naruse | Lead role |
1965 | Eleki no Wakadaishō | Yuichi Tanuma | Katsuki Iwauchi | Lead role |
Red Beard | Dr. Noboru Yasumoto | Akira Kurosawa | ||
1966 | The Sword of Doom | Hyoma Utsuki[3] | Kihachi Okamoto | |
1967 | Scattered Clouds | Shiro Mishima | Mikio Naruse | Lead role |
Japan's Longest Day | Morio Tateno | Kihachi Okamoto | ||
1968 | Rengō Kantai Shirei Chōkan: Yamamoto Isoroku | First Lieutenant Ijuin | Seiji Maruyama | |
1971 | Battle of Okinawa | Higa | Kihachi Okamoto | |
1974 | ESPY | Houjo | Jun Fukuda | |
1977 | Mount Hakkoda | Captain Kurata | Shirō Moritani | |
1995 | Thunderbolt | Coach Murakami | Gordon Chan |
Television
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1975~1981 | Edo no Kaze | Chiaki Joenosuke | Lead role |
1978 | Daitsuiseki | Eiichi Nitta | Lead role |
1990 | Tobu ga Gotoku | Shimazu Nariakira | Taiga drama |
2009 | Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo | Himself |
Family tree
Iwakura Tomomi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iwakura Tomosada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Iwakura Tomoaki | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yōko Kozakura | Ken Uehara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yūzō Kayama | Megumi Matsumoto | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nobuhiro Ikehata | Tetsuo Yamashita | Mayuko Azusa | Emi Ikehata | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Honours
References
- ^ a b Murrells, Joseph (1978). The Book of Golden Discs (2nd ed.). London: Barrie and Jenkins Ltd. p. 192. ISBN 0-214-20512-6.
- ^ 「Terra Battle Download Starter」2.5mil DL Kayama, Yuzo Interview
- ^ Stuart Galbraith IV (May 16, 2008). The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography. Scarecrow Press. p. 227. ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3.