So Yamamura
Acting • Born 1910-02-24 – Died 2000-05-26
Biography
So Yamamura (山村聰, Yamamura So, 24 February 1910 – 26 May 2000) was a Japanese actor and film director. He appeared in more than 110 films between 1947 and 1991, and directed four films. He was also known by the name Satoshi Yamamura, while his actual birth name is Koga Hirosada. In the US, he is well known for his portrayals of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Combined Fleet, in Tora! Tora! Tora!, and of Mr. Sakamoto, the CEO of Assan Motors in Gung Ho.
Filmography
173 credits
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Movie • 1970
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Yutaka Kawai
Striving to Live
Movie • 1955
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Movie • 1959
Okishima
Yume de aritai
Movie • 1962
Police Precinct Part 14
Movie • 1960
Maruyama
Gung Ho
Movie • 1986
Mr. Sakamoto
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Movie • 1991
Prime Minister
Victory and Defeat
Movie • 1960
Kimpei Minegishi
Riverside Fish Market Empire
Movie • 1952
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1950
Attorney
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Movie • 1950
Hirate (Sake brewer)
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Movie • 1947
Hôgetsu Shimamura
Musume to watashi
Movie • 1962
Who Will Judge Me?
Movie • 1951
Repast
Movie • 1951
Sound of the Mountain
Movie • 1954
Ogata Shingo
Japan's Longest Day
Movie • 1967
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
Antarctica
Movie • 1983
Iwakiri Sencho
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Movie • 1958
Governor Tamura
Tokyo Story
Movie • 1953
Koichi Hirayama
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Song of Love
Movie • 1950
Gonin no totsugeki tai
Movie • 1961
The Estuary
Movie • 1961
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Seki Sekiguchi
The Munekata Sisters
Movie • 1950
Ryosuke Mimura
Hell's Companion
Movie • 1959
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
Movie • 1955
An Lushan
White Beast
Movie • 1950
Oban kanketsu hen
Movie • 1958
The Last War
Movie • 1961
Prime Minister Masaki
Star of Hong Kong
Movie • 1962
Gentaro Sugimoto
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
Movie • 1962
The Inheritance
Movie • 1962
Senzô
Kanei Command Performance
Movie • 1983
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Movie • 1980
Masayuki Hoshina
Hole in One
Movie • 1957
Keikichi Shirasu
With Beauty and Sorrow
Movie • 1965
Toshio Ôki
Little Peach
Movie • 1958
Heishiro Hirayama, the father
Love's Family Tree
Movie • 1961
Kagebōshi
Movie • 1950
小山田鉄心
Passion Fire
Movie • 1952
奥田金馬太郎
Modern People
Movie • 1952
Women of Tokyo
Movie • 1961
Shoichi Kagami
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1951
Yagi
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953
Records of loyal vassals
Movie • 1962
Murahachibu
Movie • 1953
白磁の人
Movie • 1957
The School of Flesh
Movie • 1965
Miniature
Movie • 1953
Wakabayashi
The Doctor
Movie • 1955
Hahakogusa
Movie • 1959
Mr. Fujiki
春のみづうみ
Movie • 1956
A Roaring Trade
Movie • 1962
A Public Benefactor
Movie • 1964
Kappei Arima
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Movie • 1992
A Flame at the Pier
Movie • 1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
Movie • 1962
Mikami
Samurai Hawk
Movie • 1961
The Lady of Musashino
Movie • 1951
Eiji Ono
Shag
Movie • 1978
Night Butterflies
Movie • 1957
Ichiro Shirasawa
The Wind Blows Twice
Movie • 1952
Yūkyō no mure
Movie • 1948
The 47 Masterless Samurai
Movie • 1959
The Second Is a Christian
Movie • 1985
Nakatsugawa
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Movie • 1960
The Cannery Boat
Movie • 1953
Matsuki
The Militarists
Movie • 1970
Mitsumasa Yonai
With Songs in My Heart
Movie • 1958
The Sand City in Manchuria
Movie • 1960
Ishigami
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Movie • 1962
Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
Deep River Melody
Movie • 1960
Sister with Sister
Movie • 1958
Michisuke Nishikata
Detective Duel
Movie • 1958
The Ataka Family
Movie • 1952
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Movie • 1962
Tokusuke Rôjin
Okuni and Gohei
Movie • 1952
Tomonojo
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
Movie • 1961
Councilor Matsudaira Izu
Ditch
Movie • 1954
Whirlwind Magistrate
Movie • 1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
Movie • 1961
Nemuri Kyōshirō
Movie • 1989
Life of a Country Doctor
Movie • 1960
The Retreat from Kiska
Movie • 1965
Kawashima
Ninja Assassins
Movie • 1960
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Movie • 1948
Kijima
The Black Current
Movie • 1954
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie • 1950
Tateoka
A Geisha's Diary
Movie • 1961
Kiyomasa Tsutsui
Burden of Love
Movie • 1955
Jozaburo Araki
Main Line to Terror
Movie • 1975
Professional Killers
Movie • 1973
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Movie • 1973
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Movie • 1974
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Movie • 1957
Epitaph to My Love
Movie • 1961
Kimura
When It Rains, It Pours
Movie • 1957
The Purple Hood
Movie • 1958
Drunkard's Paradise
Movie • 1962
The Orphan Brother
Movie • 1961
Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
Seven Masks of Revenge
Movie • 1955
Darkness at Noon
Movie • 1956
Yuji
Jigoku bana
Movie • 1957
The Harbor Lights
Movie • 1961
Born in Sin
Movie • 1962
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
Movie • 1982
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Movie • 1959
Miki, the Swordman
Movie • 1951
Hirate Miki
The Bastards of Lawless Town
Movie • 1959
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Movie • 1963
Tachibana
Glory on the Summit
Movie • 1962
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1955
Daisuke Kaji
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Movie • 1952
Yasukichi Sakaza
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Movie • 1972
Gômune Jindaiyu
Ghost Story of Youth
Movie • 1955
Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
Honoo no hada
Movie • 1951
Senka o koete
Movie • 1950
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1990
Hibari no komoriuta
Movie • 1951
Their Legacy
Movie • 1962
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Movie • 1974
Prime Minister Kuroki
Kirare no Senta
Movie • 1949
The White Orchid
Movie • 1951
As Long as I Live
Movie • 1946
Love and Duty
Movie • 1954
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Movie • 1953
The husband
A Second Life
Movie • 1948
Ai Sureba Koso
Movie • 1955
Gorô (segment 3)
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Movie • 1956
Katsura Kogoro
Rumba of Passion
Movie • 1950
Hell's Juggler
Movie • 1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
Movie • 1961
Haitoku no mesu
Movie • 1961
Naoyuki Nishizawa
Roar and Earth
Movie • 1957
Homecoming
Movie • 1950
Across the Darkness
Movie • 1959
Takazawa
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
Movie • 1959
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Movie • 1950
Ganpeki
Movie • 1953
A Young Samurai
Movie • 1955
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
Movie • 1960
続べらんめぇ芸者
Movie • 1960
Netsuai sha
Movie • 1961
Murai
Ano hito wa ima
Movie • 1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
Movie • 1963
Karatachi no hana
Movie • 1954
日本敗れず
Movie • 1954
Summer in Eclipse
Movie • 1956
Kozo Mishima
His Pistol is Hell
Movie • 1958
Going West: to the West
Movie • 1997
Shogo Kawahara
A Woman's Fight
Movie • 1949
Daybreak Chorus
Movie • 1963
Shingo Koide
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
Movie • 1955
Frame of Snow
Movie • 1955
Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
Tokyo Bordello
Movie • 1987
Isaburo Okura
恐怖の空中殺人
Movie • 1956
劉元章
お月様には悪いけど
Movie • 1954
ヤーさん
Yagyu Abaretabi
Movie • 1980
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie • 1952
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
Movie • 1990
Yagyu Munenori
Haru no Sakamichi
TV • 1971
Tokugawa Ieyasu
ザ・ハングマン
TV • 1980
Ningen no Shōmei
TV • 1978
Professional Killers
TV • 1972
Hanemon Otowaya
Pearl
TV • 1978
Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
Yagyu's Secret Quest
TV • 1980
Yagyu Munenori
The Yagyu Conspiracy
TV • 1978
Yagyu Munenori
Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
TV • 1982
Yagyu Munenori
Hijo no License
TV • 1973
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