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
- Yagyu's Secret Quest as Yagyu Munenori
- ザ・ハングマン
- Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo as Masayuki Hoshina
- Yagyu Abaretabi
1978
- The Yagyu Conspiracy as Yagyu Munenori
- Pearl as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
- 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
- With Beauty and Sorrow as Toshio Ôki
- The Retreat from Kiska as Kawashima
- The School of Flesh
- Ane to imôto as Yoshirô Takaoka
1964
- A Public Benefactor as Kappei Arima
1963
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance as Mitsuhide
- Ano hito wa ima
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeance as Tachibana
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
- Daybreak Chorus as Shingo Koide
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
1962
- Their Legacy
- Drunkard's Paradise
- The Inheritance as Senzô
- Akitsu Hot Springs as Mikami
- Diary of a Mad Old Man as Tokusuke Rôjin
- Star of Hong Kong as Gentaro Sugimoto
- The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
- あの空の果てに星はまたたく
- Records of loyal vassals
- A Roaring Trade
- Glory on the Summit
- Born in Sin
- Yume de aritai
- A Flame at the Pier
- Musume to watashi
1961
- An Eagle Eyed Lord
- The Harbor Lights
- The Last War as Prime Minister Masaki
- Love's Family Tree
- Epitaph to My Love as Kimura
- The Orphan Brother as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
- Hell's Juggler
- Haitoku no mesu as Naoyuki Nishizawa
- Samurai Hawk
- The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
- A Geisha's Diary as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
- The Estuary
- Women of Tokyo as Shoichi Kagami
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
- Last-Ditch Glory
- Netsuai sha as Murai
1960
- Life of a Country Doctor
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
- Deep River Melody
- Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
- The Sand City in Manchuria as Ishigami
- 続べらんめぇ芸者
- Police Precinct Part 14 as Maruyama
- Victory and Defeat as Kimpei Minegishi
- Ninja Assassins
1959
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love as Okishima
- The Bastards of Lawless Town
- Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
- Whirlwind Magistrate
- Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
- Hell's Companion
- The 47 Masterless Samurai
- The Silent Murder
- Hahakogusa as Mr. Fujiki
- Kashima-nada no onna ... (Director)
- Across the Darkness as Takazawa
1958
- The Barbarian and the Geisha as Governor Tamura
- Little Peach as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
- Gendai Mushuku as Nonomiya Shin
- Oban kanketsu hen
- Detective Duel
- The Purple Hood
- His Pistol is Hell
- Sister with Sister as Michisuke Nishikata
- With Songs in My Heart
1957
- Tokyo Twilight as Seki Sekiguchi
- When It Rains, It Pours
- The Chieko Story as Kotaro Takamura
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki
- Night Butterflies as Ichiro Shirasawa
- Blooms of Hell
- Hole in One as Keikichi Shirasu
- First Love Story as Shohei Ganmaru
- Hakuji no hito as Zensuke, Kanako's father
- Roar and Earth
1956
- Early Spring as Yutaka Kawai
- Yonjū-hassai no teikō
- Darkness at Noon as Yuji
- 恐怖の空中殺人 as 劉元章
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Summer in Eclipse as Kozo Mishima
- Tsukigata Hanpeita as Katsura Kogoro
1955
- Burden of Love as Jozaburo Araki
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei as An Lushan
- Till We Meet Again as Daisuke Kaji
- If Indeed One Loves as Gorô (segment 3)
- Frame of Snow as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
- Ghost Story of Youth as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
- Striving to Live
- 美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
- A Young Samurai
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- The Doctor
1954
- The Black Current
- お月様には悪いけど as ヤーさん
- Sound of the Mountain as Ogata Shingo
- Mama's Diary
- Ditch
- Love and Duty
- 日本敗れず
- Karatachi no hana
- Autumn Interlude as Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
1953
- Tokyo Story as Koichi Hirayama
- Miniature as Wakabayashi
- My Wonderful Yellow Car as The husband
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- The Cannery Boat as Matsuki
- Murahachibu
- Ganpeki
1952
- Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
- Gunrō no machi
- Modern People
- Oka wa hanazakari
- A Meeting of Youths as Haruki Eda
- Okuni and Gohei as Tomonojo
- Riverside Fish Market Empire
- Passion Fire as 奥田金馬太郎
- The Woman Who Touched the Legs as Yasukichi Sakaza
- The Wind Blows Twice
- The Ataka Family
1951
- Honoo no hada
- Who Will Judge Me?
- Freedom School
- The Lady of Musashino as Eiji Ono
- Repast
- Hibari no komoriuta
- Dancing Girl as Yagi
- Wagtail Tune
- Miki, the Swordman as Hirate Miki
- The White Orchid
1950
- Haha tsubaki
- Portrait of Madame Yuki as Tateoka
- Rumba of Passion
- The Munekata Sisters as Ryosuke Mimura
- Kagebōshi as 小山田鉄心
- White Beast
- Duel in the Sun as Attorney
- Homecoming
- Crossing the Flames of War
- Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog as Hirate (Sake brewer)
- Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
- Song of Love
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumako as Hôgetsu Shimamura