So Yamamura

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

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