Word: yujiro
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Cars Galore. Japanese women say that Yujiro appeals to them because of his long legs (32 in.). On the wooden fences around Yujiro's home, girls write...
...into his garden and peep through a window to see him taking his bath. Males bother him too. They say he strides like "a supercharged sports car parading." He once found an eager young fellow lying flat on his back under one of his automobiles, refusing to budge unless Yujiro would hire him as a chauffeur...
...Yujiro drove away in another car. He has a Mercedes 300-SL, a Japanese Cedric, a Chevrolet and a Fleetwood Cadillac. He also owns two racing sloops, a twin-engined powerboat, and controlling interests in Tokyo businesses with assets totaling $5 million. And, Fujiyama Mia, he is an executive in a firm that plans to bring trading stamps to Tokyo. He formed his own film company last January, and has just completed My Enemy, the Sea, shot on location in Japan, Hawaii and California, and based on the adventures...
Early Beer. Yujiro, the son of a wealthy businessman who died in 1950, actually started his film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred...
...married to Mie Kitahara, who was his co-star in 22 pictures, and they live in a rich suburb. This has steadied Yujiro, and he now works hard at his acting, his business enterprises and his weekly prime-time TV show. "A man must do things," he now says, flashing a Western value earned with much pain and much recompense. "Action is the rule...