Oyama is not an actor but owns a karate studio in Birmingham, Alabama, but he had a small speaking role in the blockbuster horror film
Get Out (2017), which was filmed primarily in Fairhope, Alabama. As the casting call for secondary characters was local, writer/director
Jordan Peele had trouble finding an older Japanese actor available. Fortunately for Peele, his friend
Ken Marino is Oyama's son-in-law and suggested him for the part.
