So Yamamura
Department: 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.
Known For
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Early Spring
1956
Striving to Live
1955
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Yume de aritai
1962
Police Precinct Part 14
1960
Gung Ho
1986
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
Victory and Defeat
1960
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952
Duel in the Sun
1950
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
Musume to watashi
1962
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Repast
1951
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Japan's Longest Day
1967
Antarctica
1983
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958
Tokyo Story
1953
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
Song of Love
1950
Gonin no totsugeki tai
1961
The Estuary
1961
Tokyo Twilight
1957
The Munekata Sisters
1950
Hell's Companion
1959
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
White Beast
1950
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
The Last War
1961
Star of Hong Kong
1962
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1962
The Inheritance
1962
Kanei Command Performance
1983
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
1980
Hole in One
1957
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Little Peach
1958
Love's Family Tree
1961
Kagebōshi
1950
Passion Fire
1952
Modern People
1952
Women of Tokyo
1961
Dancing Girl
1951
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Records of loyal vassals
1962
Murahachibu
1953
白磁の人
1957
The School of Flesh
1965
Miniature
1953
Hahakogusa
1959
The Doctor
1955
春のみづうみ
1956
A Roaring Trade
1962
A Public Benefactor
1964
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
Samurai Hawk
1961
The Lady of Musashino
1951
Shag
1978
Night Butterflies
1957
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
Yūkyō no mure
1948
The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959
The Second Is a Christian
1985
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960
The Cannery Boat
1953
The Militarists
1970
With Songs in My Heart
1958
The Sand City in Manchuria
1960
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
Deep River Melody
1960
Sister with Sister
1958
Detective Duel
1958
The Ataka Family
1952
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1962
Okuni and Gohei
1952
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
1961
Ditch
1954
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
Nemuri Kyōshirō
1989
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
The Retreat from Kiska
1965
Ninja Assassins
1960
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
The Black Current
1954
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
A Geisha's Diary
1961
Burden of Love
1955
Main Line to Terror
1975
Professional Killers
1973
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1973
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Epitaph to My Love
1961
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
The Purple Hood
1958
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
The Orphan Brother
1961
Seven Masks of Revenge
1955
Darkness at Noon
1956
Jigoku bana
1957
The Harbor Lights
1961
Born in Sin
1962
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
1982
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
Miki, the Swordman
1951
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
Glory on the Summit
1962
Till We Meet Again
1955
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Honoo no hada
1951
Senka o koete
1950
Tange Sazen
1990
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
Their Legacy
1962
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Kirare no Senta
1949
The White Orchid
1951
As Long as I Live
1946
Love and Duty
1954
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
A Second Life
1948
If Indeed One Loves
1955
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
Rumba of Passion
1950
Hell's Juggler
1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
1961
Haitoku no mesu
1961
Roar and Earth
1957
Homecoming
1950
Across the Darkness
1959
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Ganpeki
1953
A Young Samurai
1955
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960
Netsuai sha
1961
Ano hito wa ima
1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
Karatachi no hana
1954
日本敗れず
1954
Summer in Eclipse
1956
His Pistol is Hell
1958
Going West: to the West
1997
A Woman's Fight
1949
Daybreak Chorus
1963
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
1955
Frame of Snow
1955
Tokyo Bordello
1987
恐怖の空中殺人
1956
お月様には悪いけど
1954
Yagyu Abaretabi
1980
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
1990
Haru no Sakamichi
1971
ザ・ハングマン
1980
Ningen no Shōmei
1978
Professional Killers
1972
Pearl
1978
The Yagyu Conspiracy
1978
Yagyu's Secret Quest
1980
Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
1982
Hijo no License
1973