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
- The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades as Yagyu Munenori
- Tange Sazen
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
- Yagyu Abaretabi
- Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Masayuki Hoshina
1978
- Pearl as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
- The Yagyu Conspiracy as Yagyu Munenori
- Ningen no Shōmei
- Shag
1975
1974
- Prophecies of Nostradamus as Prime Minister Kuroki
- Professional Killers – Assignment by Night as Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973
- Tasukenin Hashiru
- Hijo no License as 矢部
- Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry as Hanemon(Otowaya)
- Professional Killers 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
- Ane to imôto as Yoshirô Takaoka
- 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
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Mitsuhide
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeance as Tachibana
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
- Ano hito wa ima
- Daybreak Chorus as Shingo Koide
1962
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Tokusuke Rôjin
- The Inheritance as Senzô
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Mikami
- Star of Hong Kong as Gentaro Sugimoto
- Records of loyal vassals
- Drunkard's Paradise
- A Flame at the Pier
- The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
- Their Legacy
- Musume to watashi
- Born in Sin
- Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku as Kojiro Yamaguchi
- Yume de aritai
- Glory on the Summit
- A Roaring Trade
1961
- The Last War as Prime Minister Masaki
- The Orphan Brother as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
- I Am The Magician From Hell
- Epitaph to My Love as Kimura
- An Eagle Eyed Lord
- The Harbor Lights
- Women of Tokyo as Shoichi Kagami
- A Geisha's Diary as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
- Haitoku no mesu as Naoyuki Nishizawa
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
- The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
- The Estuary
- Last-Ditch Glory
- Love's Family Tree
- Samurai Hawk
- Netsuai sha as Murai
1960
- Life of a Country Doctor
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- The Sand City in Manchuria as Ishigami
- Ninja Assassins
- Victory and Defeat as Kimpei Minegishi
- Deep River Melody
- Police Precinct Part 14 as Maruyama
- 続べらんめぇ芸者
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Okishima
- The 47 Masterless Samurai
- Hell's Companion
- The Bastards of Lawless Town
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
- Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
- Whirlwind Magistrate
- Hahakogusa as Mr. Fujiki
- The Silent Murder
- Across the Darkness as Takazawa
- Kashima-nada no onna ... (Director)
1958
- The Barbarian and the Geisha as Governor Tamura
- Little Peach as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
- Sister with Sister as Michisuke Nishikata
- Gendai Mushuku as Nonomiya Shin
- The Purple Hood
- Detective Duel
- With Songs in My Heart
- Oban kanketsu hen
- His Pistol is Hell
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Seki Sekiguchi
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki
- When It Rains, It Pours
- Night Butterflies as Ichiro Shirasawa
- Roar and Earth
- The Chieko Story as Kotaro Takamura
- First Love Story as Shohei Ganmaru
- Hole in One as Keikichi Shirasu
- Hakuji no hito as Zensuke, Kanako's father
- Blooms of Hell
1956
- Early Spring as Yutaka Kawai
- Yonjū-hassai no teikō
- Darkness at Noon as Yuji
- Summer in Eclipse as Kozo Mishima
- 恐怖の空中殺人 as 劉元章
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Tsukigata Hanpeita as Katsura Kogoro
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei as An Lushan
- Frame of Snow as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
- Till We Meet Again as Daisuke Kaji
- If Indeed One Loves as Gorô (segment 3)
- Burden of Love as Jozaburo Araki
- Striving to Live
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- Ghost Story of Youth as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
- 美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
- The Doctor
- A Young Samurai
1954
- Love and Duty
- お月様には悪いけど as ヤーさん
- Sound of the Mountain as Ogata Shingo
- Autumn Interlude as Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
- The Black Current
- Ditch
- 日本敗れず
- Mama's Diary
- Karatachi no hana
1953
- Tokyo Story as Koichi Hirayama
- Miniature as Wakabayashi
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- The Cannery Boat as Matsuki
- Ganpeki
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The husband
- Murahachibu
1952
- Oka wa hanazakari
- Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Modern People
- Gunrō no machi
- Okuni and Gohei as Tomonojo
- The Wind Blows Twice as Takayoshi Michihara
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs as Yasukichi Sakaza
- Passion Fire as 奥田金馬太郎
- A Meeting of Youths as Haruki Eda
- Riverside Fish Market Empire
- The Ataka Family
1951
- Repast
- Freedom School
- The Lady of Musashino as Eiji Ono
- The White Orchid
- Dancing Girl as Yagi
- Who Will Judge Me?
- Wagtail Tune
- Honoo no hada
- Miki, the Swordman as Hirate Miki
- Hibari no komoriuta
1950
- Portrait of Madame Yuki as Tateoka
- The Munekata Sisters as Ryosuke Mimura
- Haha tsubaki
- Rumba of Passion
- White Beast
- Kagebōshi as 小山田鉄心
- Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog as Hirate (Sake brewer)
- Duel in the Sun as Attorney
- Song of Love
- Homecoming
- Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
- Crossing the Flames of War
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako as Hôgetsu Shimamura