Yūzō Kayama — Actor (40)
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Zero (1984)
零戦燃ゆ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Toshio Masuda actor: Jun Hashizume / Yu Hayami …
other title: Kampfgeschwader Zero / Zero, l'enfer du pacifique …
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
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Red Target (1972)
薔薇の標的 IMDb TMDB
Kiyoshi Nishimura actor: Yūzō Kayama / Chen Chen …
other title: 薔薇の標的
A gunslinger is hired to kill a news photographer. The young ward of the shot photographer discovers the set-up behind the killing - that a laboratory is being set up by a Nazi organization to capture and train talented youth and that the photographer was about to expose it.
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Blueprint of Murder (1961)
暗黒街の弾痕 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Makoto Satō …
other title: 暗黒街の弾痕
Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.
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Come Marry Me (1966)
お嫁においで IMDb TMDB
Ishirō Honda actor: Keiko Sawai / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: お嫁においで
Masako is a humble waitress who has a chance encounter with playboy Tamotsu. With the aid of his sister, Tamotsu seeks to win Masako's affection despite the disapproval of his wealthy parents and Masako's own feelings towards the working-class cabbie Noro.
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Las Vegas Free-For-All (1967)
クレージー黄金作戦 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Takashi Tsuboshima actor: Hitoshi Ueki / Kei Tani …
other title: クレージー黄金作戦
The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of their most popular movies, featured scenes filmed on location in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. Appearing with the seven Cats were the lovely Mie Hama and such Japanese musical artists as The Peanuts, The Johnnys, The Drifters, and Jackie Yoshikawa & the Blue Comets.
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ESPY (1974)
エスパイ WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jun Fukuda actor: Hiroshi Fujioka / Kaoru Yumi …
other title: Espy minaccia extrasensoriale / Esupai …
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesar, to a group of people who use ESP, psychokinesis, and other special mental abilities to fight crime.
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Sanshiro Sugata (1965)
姿三四郎 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Seiichiro Uchikawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: Sugata Sanshiro / 姿三四郎 …
Remake of Akira Kurosawa's films "Sanshiro Sugata and "Sanshiro Sugata Part II". A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more accepted of the two sports. Sugata uses his newly learned prowess to gain a measure of respect from others; however, Shogoro insists that the sport has a spiritual side, a lesson Sugata has yet to learn. Eventually, in hand-to-hand combat with the father of a young woman he loves, he comes to understand the true meaning of judo.
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Japan's Longest Day (1967)
日本のいちばん長い日
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Seiji Miyaguchi / Rokkō Toura …
other title: The Emperor and a General / Le jour le plus long du Japon …
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
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Yearning (1964)
乱れる
★ 9.4 5 ratings
Mikio Naruse actor: Yumi Shirakawa / Hideko Takamine …
other title: Tormento / Midareru - Sehnsucht …
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.
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Westward Desperado (1960)
独立愚連隊西へ TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Makoto Satō / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: 独立愚連隊西へ
In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment.
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Warring Clans (1963)
戦国野郎 IMDb TMDB
Kihachi Okamoto actor: Yūzō Kayama / Yuriko Hoshi …
other title: 戦国野郎 / Clanes en guerra
A brave, highly principled warrior resigns his post as a body guard to the head of a powerful clan after he learns that his employers have been smuggling arms to the enemy. The remaining samurai try in vain to coerce him back, but their efforts are thwarted by crooked warriors who launch an attack...
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Chûshingura (1962)
忠臣蔵 花の巻・雪の巻 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hiroshi Inagaki actor: Matsumoto Hakuō I / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: 47 Samurai / 47 Ronin …
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970)
蝦夷館の決闘 IMDb TMDB
Kengo Furusawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
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Sanjuro (1962)
椿三十郎
★ 8.4 7 ratings
Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 椿三十郎
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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八甲田山 (1977)
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森谷司郎 actor: 岛田正吾 / 大泷秀治 …
明治34年（1901年），国际局势风起云涌，日俄战争爆发在即。为了应对严寒地带作战的艰苦环境，日本陆军高层决定进行一次演习，并将演习地点定在了高耸险峻、严寒冰冷的八甲田山。演习队伍分成两支，分别由弘前第31连队的德岛大尉（高倉健 饰）和青森第5连队的神田大尉（北大路欣也 饰）领导。德岛具有丰富的雪原行军经验，他和神田仔细研究了行军路线，并相约在目的地会合。然而神田的上司山田少佐（三國連太郎 饰）一门心思击败友军，不仅擅自扩编行军人数，还粗暴地打乱既定的计划。他的颟顸将第5连队引向了死亡之途…… 本片根据新田次郎的小说《八甲田山死の彷徨》改编。
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Red Beard (1965)
赤ひげ
★ 9.3 6 ratings
Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Yūzō Kayama …
other title: Barbarossa / Rødskæg …
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto rebels in numerous ways, but Red Beard proves a wise and patient teacher. He gradually introduces his student to the unglamorous side of the profession, ultimately assigning him to care for a prostitute rescued from a local brothel.