With Shinsuke Suematsu (Award Ceremony for the Persons of Cultural Merit, November 4, 2021)
Sanjuro
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Sanjuro is a 1962 Japanese jidaigeki film directed, co-written and edited by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune. It is a sequel to Kurosawa's 1961 Yojimbo.
Yūzō Kayama
…rose to stardom in the 1960s in the Wakadaishō ("Young Guy") film series. He showed his ability for drama when Akira Kurosawa cast him for his films Sanjuro and Red Beard. In the 1970s, he starred such television dramas as Edo no Kaze and Daitsuiseki. As a guitarist, he took inspiration from the American…
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