Ereki no Wakadaishō
{{Expand Japanese|topic=cult|エレキの若大将|date=December 2014}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Eleki no Wakadaishō
| image = Wakadaisho-series-1.jpg
| caption =
| director = Katsumi Iwauchi
| producer =
| writer = Yasuo Tanami
| starring = {{ubl|Yūzō Kayama|Ichirō Arishima|Takeshi Terauchi}}
| music = Kenjiro Hirose
| cinematography =
| editing =
| distributor = Toho
| released = {{Film date|1965|12|19}}
| runtime = 94 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
}}
{{nihongo|Campus A-Go-Go|エレキの若大将||"The young electric guitar wizard"}} is a 1965 Japanese film starring Yūzō Kayama. It is the sixth in the Wakadaishō series of films.{{cite web|url=http://sp.kinenote.com/main/public/cinema/detail.aspx?cinema_id=21809&key_search=%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AC%E3%82%AD%E3%81%AE%E8%8B%A5%E5%A4%A7%E5%B0%86|title=エレキの若大将|publisher=Kinema Junpo|access-date=27 December 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%8A%A0%E5%B1%B1%E9%9B%84%E4%B8%89-826303|title=加山雄三|publisher=kotobank|access-date=27 December 2020}}
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
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0059151}}
- [http://www.thevideobeat.com/rock-roll-movies/eleki-no-wakadaisho-1965.html Eleki No Wakadaisho (The Young General's Electric Guitar) 1965]
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Category:Japanese sports comedy films
Category:1960s Japanese-language films
Category:American football films
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