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)
- 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
- Hijo no License as 矢部
- Tasukenin Hashiru
- 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
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeance as Tachibana
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Mitsuhide
- Daybreak Chorus as Shingo Koide
- Ano hito wa ima
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
1962
- The Inheritance as Senzô
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Mikami
- Drunkard's Paradise
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Tokusuke Rôjin
- Their Legacy
- Glory on the Summit
- A Roaring Trade
- A Flame at the Pier
- Star of Hong Kong as Gentaro Sugimoto
- Musume to watashi
- Records of loyal vassals
- Born in Sin
- あの空の果てに星はまたたく
- The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
- Yume de aritai
1961
- A Geisha's Diary as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
- The Last War as Prime Minister Masaki
- The Orphan Brother as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
- Epitaph to My Love as Kimura
- Haitoku no mesu as Naoyuki Nishizawa
- The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
- An Eagle Eyed Lord
- Love's Family Tree
- Women of Tokyo as Shoichi Kagami
- The Harbor Lights
- Hell's Juggler
- Gonin no totsugeki tai
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
- The Estuary
- Netsuai sha as Murai
- Samurai Hawk
1960
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- Life of a Country Doctor
- Police Precinct Part 14 as Maruyama
- The Sand City in Manchuria as Ishigami
- Deep River Melody
- Victory and Defeat as Kimpei Minegishi
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
- 続べらんめぇ芸者
- Ninja Assassins
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Okishima
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
- The 47 Masterless Samurai
- The Bastards of Lawless Town
- Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
- Whirlwind Magistrate
- Kashima-nada no onna ... (Director)
- Hell's Companion
- Hahakogusa as Mr. Fujiki
- The Silent Murder
- Across the Darkness as Takazawa
1958
- The Barbarian and the Geisha as Governor Tamura
- Little Peach as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
- Oban kanketsu hen
- Gendai Mushuku as Nonomiya Shin
- Sister with Sister as Michisuke Nishikata
- Detective Duel
- The Purple Hood
- With Songs in My Heart
- His Pistol is Hell
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Seki Sekiguchi
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki
- Jigoku bana
- Night Butterflies as Ichiro Shirasawa
- When It Rains, It Pours
- 白磁の人
- Hole in One as Keikichi Shirasu
- First Love Story as Shohei Ganmaru
- The Chieko Story as Kotaro Takamura
- Roar and Earth
1956
- Early Spring as Yutaka Kawai
- Darkness at Noon as Yuji
- 恐怖の空中殺人 as 劉元章
- Tsukigata Hanpeita as Katsura Kogoro
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Summer in Eclipse as Kozo Mishima
1955
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei as An Lushan
- Striving to Live
- Till We Meet Again as Daisuke Kaji
- Burden of Love as Jozaburo Araki
- If Indeed One Loves as Gorô (segment 3)
- Ghost Story of Youth as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- Frame of Snow as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
- 美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
- A Young Samurai
- The Doctor
1954
- Sound of the Mountain as Ogata Shingo
- The Black Current
- 日本敗れず
- Ditch
- Autumn Interlude as Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
- Love and Duty
- Mama's Diary
- お月様には悪いけど as ヤーさん
- Karatachi no hana
1953
- Tokyo Story as Koichi Hirayama
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The husband
- Miniature as Wakabayashi
- The Cannery Boat as Matsuki
- Ganpeki
- Murahachibu
1952
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs as Yasukichi Sakaza
- Oka wa hanazakari
- Modern People
- A Meeting of Youths as Haruki Eda
- The Ataka Family
- Riverside Fish Market Empire
- Okuni and Gohei as Tomonojo
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Passion Fire as 奥田金馬太郎
- The Wind Blows Twice
1951
- Repast
- The Lady of Musashino as Eiji Ono
- Miki, the Swordman as Hirate Miki
- Dancing Girl as Yagi
- Who Will Judge Me?
- Honoo no hada
- The White Orchid
- Wagtail Tune
- Hibari no komoriuta
1950
- The Munekata Sisters as Ryosuke Mimura
- Portrait of Madame Yuki as Tateoka
- White Beast
- Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
- Kagebōshi as 小山田鉄心
- Rumba of Passion
- Duel in the Sun as Attorney
- Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog as Hirate (Sake brewer)
- Homecoming
- Song of Love
- Senka o koete
1948
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako as Hôgetsu Shimamura