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So Yamamura

Born 1910-02-24

Died 2000-05-26

📍 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.

Filmography 170

Going West: to the West

as Shogo Kawahara

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

as Prime Minister

The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades

as Yagyu Munenori

Nemuri Kyōshirō

as Isaburo Okura

as Mr. Sakamoto

The Second Is a Christian

Kanei Command Performance

as Iwakiri Sencho

The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S

Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest

as Yagyu Munenori

ザ・ハングマン

Yagyu Abaretabi

Yagyu's Secret Quest

as Yagyu Munenori

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

as Masayuki Hoshina

as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)

The Yagyu Conspiracy

as Yagyu Munenori

Ningen no Shōmei

Main Line to Terror

Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Prime Minister Kuroki

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night

as Hanemon(Otowaya)

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

as Hanemon(Otowaya)

Professional Killers

as Hanemon(Otowaya)

Hijo no License

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

as Gômune Jindaiyu

Professional Killers

as Hanemon Otowaya

Haru no Sakamichi

as Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Militarists

as Mitsumasa Yonai

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Japan's Longest Day

as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

The Retreat from Kiska

With Beauty and Sorrow

The School of Flesh

A Public Benefactor

as Kappei Arima

Daybreak Chorus

as Shingo Koide

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

The House Where Flowers Bloom

Ano hito wa ima

At the Side of the Bridge 3

Diary of a Mad Old Man

as Tokusuke Rôjin

A Flame at the Pier

Records of loyal vassals

Glory on the Summit

Star of Hong Kong

as Gentaro Sugimoto

Akitsu Hot Springs

あの空の果てに星はまたたく

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff

Musume to watashi

The Inheritance

Drunkard's Paradise

A Roaring Trade

Love's Family Tree

as Prime Minister Masaki

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

as Councilor Matsudaira Izu

Haitoku no mesu

as Naoyuki Nishizawa

A Geisha's Diary

as Kiyomasa Tsutsui

The Orphan Brother

as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)

An Eagle Eyed Lord

Epitaph to My Love

Gonin no totsugeki tai

as Shoichi Kagami

The Harbor Lights

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

Deep River Melody

The Sand City in Manchuria

Life of a Country Doctor

Ninja Assassins

Police Precinct Part 14

Victory and Defeat

as Kimpei Minegishi

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

続べらんめぇ芸者

Across the Darkness

The Silent Murder

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

Hell's Companion

Whirlwind Magistrate

The Bastards of Lawless Town

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

The 47 Masterless Samurai

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

Sister with Sister

as Michisuke Nishikata

The Purple Hood

The Barbarian and the Geisha

as Governor Tamura

With Songs in My Heart

Oban kanketsu hen

His Pistol is Hell

as Heishiro Hirayama, the father

as Keikichi Shirasu

When It Rains, It Pours

as Seki Sekiguchi

Night Butterflies

as Ichiro Shirasawa

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

恐怖の空中殺人

Tsukigata Hanpeita

as Katsura Kogoro

Summer in Eclipse

as Kozo Mishima

Darkness at Noon

Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi

as Yutaka Kawai

Seven Masks of Revenge

If Indeed One Loves

as Gorô (segment 3)

Till We Meet Again

as Daisuke Kaji

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

Ghost Story of Youth

as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu

as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)

A Young Samurai

as Jozaburo Araki

Striving to Live

美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

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

Sound of the Mountain

as Ogata Shingo

An Inlet of Muddy Water

as Koichi Hirayama

The Cannery Boat

My Wonderful Yellow Car

as 奥田金馬太郎

Oka wa hanazakari

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

as Yasukichi Sakaza

The Ataka Family

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Okuni and Gohei

Riverside Fish Market Empire

The Wind Blows Twice

Miki, the Swordman

Hibari no komoriuta

The Lady of Musashino

Who Will Judge Me?

The White Orchid

Rumba of Passion

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

as Hirate (Sake brewer)

Portrait of Madame Yuki

The Munekata Sisters

as Ryosuke Mimura

Duel in the Sun

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

as 小山田鉄心

Kirare no Senta

A Woman's Fight

Yūkyō no mure

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

The Love of the Actress Sumako

as Hôgetsu Shimamura

As Long as I Live