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