Kenji Oyama
Acting
Biography
Kenji Ōyama ( February 8 , 1904 – 1970 ) was a Japanese actor. he played the role of a large, good-natured student in the films made at Shochiku Kamata and Ōfuna studios in the 1920s and 1930s and his appearance was described as "a pleasing addition to Shochiku's youth entertainment films. " Description above from the Wikipedia article 大山健二, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born: February 8, 1904
Place of Birth: Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Image of a Mother
The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of her own. As Michio clings to memories of his mother, the family navigates the challenges of grief, love, and new beginnings.
Superexpress
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
Warm Current
The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.
Every-Night Dreams
In Depression-era Tokyo, the life of a single mother and her young son are disrupted by the return of her ex-husband, who fathered the child and walked out on her years earlier.
No Blood Relation
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Forget Love for Now
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
The Time of Reckoning
"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
The New Road: Akemi
The eldest daughter of a noble family is in love with an aviator while being courted by a fellow aristocrat she thinks is a dullard. This part is told from the perspective of Akemi.
The Boss's Son at College
The story deals with Fuji, nicknamed Waka-danna (Young Master), the star athlete on his university's rugby team. The son of a wealthy soy sauce manufacturer, Fuji basks in the glory of his athletic celebrity. Attracting the attention of admiring young women, Fuji resists family pressure to settle down and marry after college. Instead, he spends much of his time drinking and womanizing, behavior which eventually leads the college officials to expel him from the team.
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
Filmography
as Senior Managing Director
as District Police Commissioner
as Minister of Defense
as Shinkansen Public Corporation doorman
as Parent A
as Judge Esaki
as Kunihiko Mochizuki
as Umezu
as Yoshitsugu Kano
as Judge
as Director
as Kita
as Director, Internal Medicine Department, Kanaya
as Toyama (Mayor)
as Representative Shimoyama
as (uncredited)
as Murai
as Graduate
as Mr. Suzuki
as Kawada's secretary
as Kubo
as Guest
as Kawahara
as Takako's husband Komiyama
as The young master
as Uebayashi, driver
as Guzuyasu
as Okubo
as Lodger
as Gengo Ôtaka
as Tetsuo's friend, Kumada
as Coach
as Sugimara
as Tooyama, student
as Furukawa, tailor