So Yamamura
Born: 1910-02-24 in Tenri, Nara, Japan
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.
Rated Filmography (108)
Sorted by Score
Musume to watashi
1962
Last-Ditch Glory
1961
The Doctor
1955
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
The Black Current
1954
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Their Legacy
1962
Scarface Senta
1949
If Indeed One Loves
1955
Karatachi no hana
1954
Frame of Snow
1955
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1973
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Blooms of Hell
1957
Born in Sin
1962
Glory on the Summit
1962
Across the Darkness
1959
Netsuai sha
1961
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
The Cannery Boat
1953
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
The Retreat from Kiska
1965
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Tokyo Story
1953
Victory and Defeat
1960
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Star of Hong Kong
1962
Hole in One
1957
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
Professional Killers
1973
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952
An Eagle Eyed Lord
1961
Roar and Earth
1957
Homecoming
1950
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959
お月様には悪いけど
1954
Epitaph to My Love
1961
Miniature
1953
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Repast
1951
Early Spring
1956
Shag
1978
The Militarists
1970
Ditch
1954
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
A Geisha's Diary
1961
Sound of the Mountain
1954
The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959
The Inheritance
1962
Japan's Longest Day
1967
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Antarctica
1983
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Munekata Sisters
1950
Burden of Love
1955
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
A Public Benefactor
1964
Nemuri Kyōshirō
1989
Till We Meet Again
1955
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
A Second Life
1948
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
I Am The Magician From Hell
1961
Haitoku no mesu
1961
日本敗れず
1954
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
Darkness at Noon
1956
The Last War
1961
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1962
Night Butterflies
1957
The Sand City in Manchuria
1960
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
Dancing Girl
1951
Okuni and Gohei
1952
The Orphan Brother
1961
The Lady of Musashino
1951
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
The Harbor Lights
1961
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Main Line to Terror
1975
Little Peach
1958
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Gung Ho
1986
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
1980
The Second Is a Christian
1985
Deep River Melody
1960
Detective Duel
1958
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
Ninja Assassins
1960
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
The School of Flesh
1965
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
White Beast
1950
Tokyo Bordello
1987
The Ataka Family
1952
The Purple Hood
1958
Miki, the Swordman
1951
Modern People
1952
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
1982