Ereki no Wakadaishō

Eleki no Wakadaishō
Directed by	Katsumi Iwauchi
Written by	Yasuo Tanami
Starring	Yuzo Kayama Ichirō Arishima
Music by	Kenjiro Hirose
Distributed by	Toho
Release dates	December 19, 1965
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Ereki no Wakadaishō (エレキの若大将, "The young electric guitar wizard") is a 1965 Japanese film starring Yuzo Kayama. It is the sixth in the Wakadaishō series of films.

The film was inspired by the mid-sixties electric guitar boom created by the popularity of groups such as The Beatles and The Ventures. The sport featured in this film is American football.

Cast

Yuzo Kayama as Yuichi Tanuma ("Wakadaishō")
Ichirō Arishima as Kyūtarō, Yuichi's father
Machiko Naka as Teruko Tanuma, Yuichi's sister
Choko Iida as Riki, Yuichi's grandmother
Kunie Tanaka as Shinjiro Ishiyama ("Aodaishō")
Minoru Takada
Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Eguchi
Yuriko Hoshi as Sumiko Hoshida
Ken Uehara

References

External links

Ereki no Wakadaishō at the Internet Movie Database

Wakadaishō series

Films	Daigaku no Wakadaishō (1961) Ereki no Wakadaishō (1965)

People	Yūzō Kayama as Wakadaishō Kunie Tanaka as Aodaishō

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