So Yamamura
Known for
Acting
Life
1910 – 2000 (aged 90)
Born in
Tenri, Nara, Japan
Credits
View on IMDb190 acting credits
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
03 Nov 1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
26 Jan 1970
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
15 Jan 1959
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
14 Dec 1991
Gung Ho
14 Mar 1986
Tokyo Twilight
30 Apr 1957
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
30 Dec 1972
Early Spring
29 Jan 1956
Filmography
1997
- Going West: to the Westas Shogo Kawahara
1991
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorahas Prime Minister
1990
- The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Bladesas Yagyu Munenori
- Tange Sazen
1989
1987
- Tokyo Bordelloas Isaburo Okura
1986
- Gung Hoas Mr. Sakamoto
1985
- The Second Is a Christianas Nakatsugawa
1983
- Kanei Command Performance
- Antarcticaas Iwakiri Sencho
1982
- The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
- Yagyu Jubei Secret Questas Yagyu Munenori26 episodes
1980
- ザ・ハングマン23 episodes
- Yagyu Abaretabi
- Yagyu's Secret Questas Yagyu Munenori51 episodes
- Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzoas Masayuki Hoshina
1978
- Pearlas Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)2 episodes
- The Yagyu Conspiracyas Yagyu Munenori39 episodes
- Shag
- Ningen no Shōmei13 episodes
1974
- Prophecies of Nostradamusas Prime Minister Kuroki
- Professional Killers – Assignment by Nightas Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973
- Tasukenin Hashiru36 episodes
- Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarryas Hanemon(Otowaya)
- Professional Killersas Hanemon(Otowaya)
- Hijo no Licenseas 矢部64 episodes
1972
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Perilas Gômune Jindaiyu
- Professional Killersas Hanemon Otowaya33 episodes
1971
- Haru no Sakamichias Tokugawa Ieyasu52 episodes
1970
- The Militaristsas Mitsumasa Yonai
- Tora! Tora! Tora!as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1967
- Japan's Longest Dayas Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1965
- The Retreat from Kiskaas Kawashima
- With Beauty and Sorrowas Toshio Ôki
- The School of Flesh
- Ane to imôtoas Yoshirô Takaoka
1964
- A Public Benefactoras Kappei Arima
1963
- Daybreak Chorusas Shingo Koide
- Gang Loyalty and Vengeanceas Tachibana
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeanceas Mitsuhide
- The House Where Flowers Bloom
- Ano hito wa ima
- At the Side of the Bridge 3
1962
- Born in Sin
- Diary of a Mad Old Manas Tokusuke Rôjin
- A Flame at the Pier
- Records of loyal vassals
- Glory on the Summit
- Star of Hong Kongas Gentaro Sugimoto
- Akitsu Hot Springsas Mikami
- Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matatakuas Kojiro Yamaguchi
- The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corpsas Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
- Musume to watashi
- The Inheritanceas Senzô
- Drunkard's Paradise
- Yume de aritai
- A Roaring Trade
- Their Legacy
1961
- Love's Family Tree
- The Last Waras Prime Minister Masaki
- The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Kokuas Councilor Matsudaira Izu
- Netsuai shaas Murai
- Haitoku no mesuas Naoyuki Nishizawa
- A Geisha's Diaryas Kiyomasa Tsutsui
- The Estuary
- The Orphan Brotheras Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
- An Eagle Eyed Lord
- Epitaph to My Loveas Kimura
- Last-Ditch Glory
- Samurai Hawk
- Women of Tokyoas Shoichi Kagami
- The Harbor Lights
- I Am The Magician From Hell
- The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1960
1959
1958
- Sister with Sisteras Michisuke Nishikata
- The Purple Hood
- The Barbarian and the Geishaas Governor Tamura
- With Songs in My Heart
- Detective Duel
- Oban kanketsu hen
- His Pistol is Hell
- Gendai Mushukuas Nonomiya Shin
- Little Peachas Heishiro Hirayama, the father
1957
- Roar and Earth
- Hole in Oneas Keikichi Shirasu
- First Love Storyas Shohei Ganmaru
- The Chieko Storyas Kotaro Takamura
- Blooms of Hell
- When It Rains, It Pours
- Tokyo Twilightas Seki Sekiguchi
- Night Butterfliesas Ichiro Shirasawa
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki
- Hakuji no hitoas Zensuke, Kanako's father
1956
- 恐怖の空中殺人as 劉元章
- Yonjū-hassai no teikō
- Tsukigata Hanpeitaas Katsura Kogoro
- Summer in Eclipseas Kozo Mishima
- Darkness at Noonas Yuji
- Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
- Early Springas Yutaka Kawai
1955
- The Doctor
- Seven Masks of Revenge
- If Indeed One Lovesas Gorô (segment 3)
- Till We Meet Againas Daisuke Kaji
- Princess Yang Kwei-feias An Lushan
- Ghost Story of Youthas Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
- Frame of Snowas Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
- A Young Samurai
- Burden of Loveas Jozaburo Araki
- Striving to Live
- 美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
1954
- お月様には悪いけどas ヤーさん
- Karatachi no hana
- 日本敗れず
- The Black Current
- Ditch
- Love and Duty
- Autumn Interludeas Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
- Mama's Diary
- Sound of the Mountainas Ogata Shingo
1953
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- Tokyo Storyas Koichi Hirayama
- The Cannery Boatas Matsuki
- Ganpeki
- Miniatureas Wakabayashi
- Murahachibu
- My Wonderful Yellow Caras The husband
1952
1951
1950
- Rumba of Passion
- Homecoming
- Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fogas Hirate (Sake brewer)
- Portrait of Madame Yukias Tateoka
- Crossing the Flames of War
- The Munekata Sistersas Ryosuke Mimura
- White Beast
- Song of Love
- Duel in the Sunas Attorney
- Haha tsubaki
- Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
- Kagebōshias 小山田鉄心
1947
- The Love of the Actress Sumakoas Hôgetsu Shimamura