Daigaku no Wakadaishō

Daigaku no Wakadaishō
Directed by	Toshio Sugie
Written by	Ryōzō Kasahara Yasuo Tanami
Produced by	Sanezumi Fujimoto
Starring	Yūzō Kayama Ichirō Arishima
Music by	Kenjiro Hirose
Distributed by	Toho
Release date	July 8, 1961 (1961-07-08)
Running time	82 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Daigaku no Wakadaishō (大学の若大将) AKA Sir Galahad in Campus, is a 1961 Japanese musical comedy romance film starring Yūzō Kayama and directed by Toshio Sugie. It was the first in a series of films about the "Wakadaishō". Yuzo Kayama plays Yuichi Tanuma, ace of the swimming club of Kyonan university,[1] against the rivalry of the lecherous Shinjiro Ishiyama, played by Kunie Tanaka, nicknamed Aodaishō (青大将), the Japanese name of the Japanese rat snake.

Cast

• Yūzō Kayama as Yuichi Tanuma, "Wakadaishō"
• Ichirō Arishima
• Chōko Iida as Grandmother
• Machiko Naka
• Yuriko Hoshi
• Reiko Dan as Kyoko Danno
• Akemi Kita
• Tatsuyoshi Ehara
• Kunie Tanaka as Shinjiro Ishiyama, "Aodaishō"

Release

The film was released on 8 July 1961 in Japan.[2]

References

1. "Daigaku no Wakadaishō". KINENOTE. Retrieved August 1, 2021.
2. "大学の若大将". Japanese Cinema Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 3 February 2013.

Bibliography

• Schilling, Mark (1997). The Encyclopedia of Japanese Pop Culture. Weatherhill. pp. 281–284. ISBN 0-8348-0380-1.

External links

• Daigaku no Wakadaishō at IMDb