Ereki no Wakadaishō explained

Eleki no Wakadaishō
Director:	Katsumi Iwauchi
Music:	Kenjiro Hirose
Distributor:	Toho
Runtime:	94 minutes
Country:	Japan
Language:	Japanese

is a 1965 Japanese film starring Yūzō Kayama. It is the sixth in the Wakadaishō series of films.^{[1] [2]}

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

• Yūzō 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
• Toshio Kurosawa as Izawa
• Tatsuyoshi Ehara as Eguchi
• Yuriko Hoshi as Sumiko Hoshida
• Ken Uehara
• Takeshi Terauchi as Takashi

External links

• • Eleki No Wakadaisho (The Young General's Electric Guitar) 1965

Notes and References

1. Web site: エレキの若大将. Kinema Junpo. 27 December 2020.
2. Web site: 加山雄三. kotobank. 27 December 2020.