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 bestknown 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 industrys history Description above from the Wikipedia article Yūzō Kayama licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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