The above photo is of the late Joe Yamanaka(ジョー山中)who was born Akira Yamanaka(山中明)in Yokohama back in 1946. He was a singer and an actor who I knew for just one song. I first heard it when I was watching an episode of "19XX Bokutachi no Natsukashii Melody"(僕たちの懐かしいメロディー), a late-night Fuji-TV half-hour without any hosts which provided excerpts of news from a certain year along with the popular music at that time.
The song was "Ningen no Shomei" (Proof of the Man) and at the time I heard the song on "19XX", the video which accompanied it was apparently from the 1977 movie of the same name with a hat flying off into the sky. I had no idea what it was all about but later found out that it involved the death of a young man at the hands of his own mother.
"Ningen no Shomei" has a synopsis on Wikipedia but the story sounds like a neo-film noir which starred Yusaku Matsuda(松田優作), George Kennedy and Joe Yamanaka himself as the victim which starts the plot off.
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