So Yamamura

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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.

Known For

Tokyo Story

Koichi Hirayama

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Okishima

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Prime Minister

Gung Ho

Mr. Sakamoto

Tokyo Twilight

Seki Sekiguchi

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Gômune Jindaiyu

Early Spring

Yutaka Kawai

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
1997	Going West: to the West MOVIE	Shogo Kawahara
1992	Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan MOVIE	Self
1991	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah MOVIE	Prime Minister
1990	The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades MOVIE	Yagyu Munenori
1990	Tange Sazen MOVIE	Self
1989	Nemuri Kyōshirō MOVIE	Self
1987	Tokyo Bordello MOVIE	Isaburo Okura
1986	Gung Ho MOVIE	Mr. Sakamoto
1985	The Second Is a Christian MOVIE	Nakatsugawa
1983	Kanei Command Performance MOVIE	Self
1983	Antarctica MOVIE	Iwakiri Sencho
1982	The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S MOVIE	Self
1982	Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest TV	Yagyu Munenori
1980	ザ・ハングマン TV	Self
1980	Yagyu Abaretabi MOVIE	Self
1980	Yagyu's Secret Quest TV	Yagyu Munenori
1980	Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo MOVIE	Masayuki Hoshina
1978	Pearl TV	Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
1978	The Yagyu Conspiracy TV	Yagyu Munenori
1978	Shag MOVIE	Self
1978	Ningen no Shōmei TV	Self
1975	Main Line to Terror MOVIE	Self
1974	Prophecies of Nostradamus MOVIE	Prime Minister Kuroki
1974	Professional Killers – Assignment by Night MOVIE	Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973	Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry MOVIE	Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973	Professional Killers MOVIE	Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973	Hijo no License TV	矢部
1972	Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril MOVIE	Gômune Jindaiyu
1972	Professional Killers TV	Hanemon Otowaya
1971	Haru no Sakamichi TV	Tokugawa Ieyasu
1970	The Militarists MOVIE	Mitsumasa Yonai
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora! MOVIE	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1967	Japan's Longest Day MOVIE	Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1965	The Retreat from Kiska MOVIE	Kawashima
1965	With Beauty and Sorrow MOVIE	Toshio Ôki
1965	The School of Flesh MOVIE	Self
1964	A Public Benefactor MOVIE	Kappei Arima
1963	Daybreak Chorus MOVIE	Shingo Koide
1963	Gang Loyalty and Vengeance MOVIE	Tachibana
1963	Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance MOVIE	Self
1963	Ano hito wa ima MOVIE	Self
1963	At the Side of the Bridge 3 MOVIE	Self
1962	Born in Sin MOVIE	Self
1962	Diary of a Mad Old Man MOVIE	Tokusuke Rôjin
1962	A Flame at the Pier MOVIE	Self
1962	Records of loyal vassals MOVIE	Self
1962	Glory on the Summit MOVIE	Self
1962	Star of Hong Kong MOVIE	Gentaro Sugimoto
1962	Akitsu Hot Springs MOVIE	Mikami
1962	あの空の果てに星はまたたく MOVIE	Self
1962	The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps MOVIE	Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
1962	Musume to watashi MOVIE	Self
1962	The Inheritance MOVIE	Senzô
1962	Drunkard's Paradise MOVIE	Self
1962	Yume de aritai MOVIE	Self
1962	A Roaring Trade MOVIE	Self
1962	Their Legacy MOVIE	Self
1961	Love's Family Tree MOVIE	Self
1961	The Last War MOVIE	Prime Minister Masaki
1961	The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku MOVIE	Councilor Matsudaira Izu
1961	Netsuai sha MOVIE	Murai
1961	Haitoku no mesu MOVIE	Naoyuki Nishizawa
1961	A Geisha's Diary MOVIE	Kiyomasa Tsutsui
1961	The Estuary MOVIE	Self
1961	The Orphan Brother MOVIE	Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
1961	An Eagle Eyed Lord MOVIE	Self
1961	Epitaph to My Love MOVIE	Kimura
1961	Gonin no totsugeki tai MOVIE	Self
1961	Samurai Hawk MOVIE	Self
1961	Women of Tokyo MOVIE	Shoichi Kagami
1961	The Harbor Lights MOVIE	Self
1961	Hell's Juggler MOVIE	Self
1961	The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 MOVIE	Self
1960	Deep River Melody MOVIE	Self
1960	The Sand City in Manchuria MOVIE	Ishigami
1960	Life of a Country Doctor MOVIE	Self
1960	Ninja Assassins MOVIE	Self
1960	Police Precinct Part 14 MOVIE	Maruyama
1960	Victory and Defeat MOVIE	Kimpei Minegishi
1960	Ryuji, the Gun Slinger MOVIE	Self
1960	The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2 MOVIE	Self
1960	続べらんめぇ芸者 MOVIE	Self
1959	Across the Darkness MOVIE	Takazawa
1959	Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord MOVIE	Self
1959	Hell's Companion MOVIE	Self
1959	Hahakogusa MOVIE	Mr. Fujiki
1959	Whirlwind Magistrate MOVIE	Self
1959	The Bastards of Lawless Town MOVIE	Self
1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love MOVIE	Okishima
1959	The 47 Masterless Samurai MOVIE	Self
1959	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2 MOVIE	Self
1958	Sister with Sister MOVIE	Michisuke Nishikata
1958	The Purple Hood MOVIE	Self
1958	The Barbarian and the Geisha MOVIE	Governor Tamura
1958	With Songs in My Heart MOVIE	Self
1958	Detective Duel MOVIE	Self
1958	Oban kanketsu hen MOVIE	Self
1958	His Pistol is Hell MOVIE	Self
1958	Little Peach MOVIE	Heishiro Hirayama, the father
1957	Roar and Earth MOVIE	Self
1957	Hole in One MOVIE	Keikichi Shirasu
1957	Jigoku bana MOVIE	Self
1957	When It Rains, It Pours MOVIE	Self
1957	Tokyo Twilight MOVIE	Seki Sekiguchi
1957	Night Butterflies MOVIE	Ichiro Shirasawa
1957	Typhoon Over Nagasaki MOVIE	Self
1957	白磁の人 MOVIE	Self
1956	恐怖の空中殺人 MOVIE	劉元章
1956	Tsukigata Hanpeita MOVIE	Katsura Kogoro
1956	Summer in Eclipse MOVIE	Kozo Mishima
1956	Darkness at Noon MOVIE	Yuji
1956	春のみづうみ MOVIE	Self
1956	Early Spring MOVIE	Yutaka Kawai
1955	The Doctor MOVIE	Self
1955	Seven Masks of Revenge MOVIE	Self
1955	If Indeed One Loves MOVIE	Gorô (segment 3)
1955	Till We Meet Again MOVIE	Daisuke Kaji
1955	Princess Yang Kwei-fei MOVIE	An Lushan
1955	Ghost Story of Youth MOVIE	Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
1955	Frame of Snow MOVIE	Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
1955	A Young Samurai MOVIE	Self
1955	Burden of Love MOVIE	Jozaburo Araki
1955	Striving to Live MOVIE	Self
1955	美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋 MOVIE	Self
1954	お月様には悪いけど MOVIE	ヤーさん
1954	Karatachi no hana MOVIE	Self
1954	日本敗れず MOVIE	Self
1954	The Black Current MOVIE	Self
1954	Ditch MOVIE	Self
1954	Love and Duty MOVIE	Self
1954	Sound of the Mountain MOVIE	Ogata Shingo
1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water MOVIE	Self
1953	Tokyo Story MOVIE	Koichi Hirayama
1953	The Cannery Boat MOVIE	Matsuki
1953	Ganpeki MOVIE	Self
1953	Miniature MOVIE	Wakabayashi
1953	Murahachibu MOVIE	Self
1953	My Wonderful Yellow Car MOVIE	The husband
1952	Passion Fire MOVIE	奥田金馬太郎
1952	Oka wa hanazakari MOVIE	Self
1952	The Woman Who Touched the Legs MOVIE	Yasukichi Sakaza
1952	Modern People MOVIE	Self
1952	The Ataka Family MOVIE	Self
1952	Kin no tamago: Golden Girl MOVIE	Self
1952	Okuni and Gohei MOVIE	Tomonojo
1952	Riverside Fish Market Empire MOVIE	Self
1952	The Wind Blows Twice MOVIE	Self
1951	Repast MOVIE	Self
1951	Miki, the Swordman MOVIE	Hirate Miki
1951	Honoo no hada MOVIE	Self
1951	Hibari no komoriuta MOVIE	Self
1951	The Lady of Musashino MOVIE	Eiji Ono
1951	Dancing Girl MOVIE	Yagi
1951	Who Will Judge Me? MOVIE	Self
1951	The White Orchid MOVIE	Self
1950	Rumba of Passion MOVIE	Self
1950	Homecoming MOVIE	Self
1950	Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog MOVIE	Hirate (Sake brewer)
1950	Portrait of Madame Yuki MOVIE	Tateoka
1950	Senka o koete MOVIE	Self
1950	The Munekata Sisters MOVIE	Ryosuke Mimura
1950	White Beast MOVIE	Self
1950	Song of Love MOVIE	Self
1950	Duel in the Sun MOVIE	Attorney
1950	Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu MOVIE	Self
1950	Kagebōshi MOVIE	小山田鉄心
1949	Kirare no Senta MOVIE	Self
1949	A Woman's Fight MOVIE	Self
1948	Yūkyō no mure MOVIE	Self
1948	A Woman in the Typhoon Area MOVIE	Kijima
1948	A Second Life MOVIE	Self
1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako MOVIE	Hôgetsu Shimamura
1946	As Long as I Live MOVIE	Self

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