So Yamamura
Acting
Born: February 24, 1910 · Tenri, Nara, Japan
Died: May 26, 2000 (aged 90)
Highest Rated
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
1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
Gung Ho
1986
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Early Spring
1956
Antarctica
1983
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Repast
1951
Photos (1)
Movies (175)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Tokyo Story
Koichi Hirayama
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Okishima
Antarctica
Iwakiri Sencho
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
An Lushan
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Prime Minister
Gung Ho
Mr. Sakamoto
Repast
1951
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Prime Minister Kuroki
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Tateoka
Tokyo Bordello
Isaburo Okura
The Munekata Sisters
Ryosuke Mimura
Tokyo Twilight
Seki Sekiguchi
White Beast
1950
Till We Meet Again
Daisuke Kaji
Early Spring
Yutaka Kawai
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Governor Tamura
The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Tokusuke Rôjin
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Gômune Jindaiyu
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Hôgetsu Shimamura
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Darkness at Noon
Yuji
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Japan's Longest Day
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
The Last War
Prime Minister Masaki
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Mitsuhide
Records of loyal vassals
1962
Main Line to Terror
1975
The Militarists
Mitsumasa Yonai
The Retreat from Kiska
Kawashima
Star of Hong Kong
Gentaro Sugimoto
The Inheritance
Senzô
Night Butterflies
Ichiro Shirasawa
Sound of the Mountain
Ogata Shingo
Little Peach
Heishiro Hirayama, the father
Akitsu Hot Springs
Mikami
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
お月様には悪いけど
ヤーさん
The Second Is a Christian
Nakatsugawa
Murahachibu
1953
Kanei Command Performance
1983
The Lady of Musashino
Eiji Ono
With Beauty and Sorrow
Toshio Ôki
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Hirate (Sake brewer)
Miki, the Swordman
Hirate Miki
Hole in One
Keikichi Shirasu
Haha tsubaki
1950
Yūkyō no mure
1948
Victory and Defeat
Kimpei Minegishi
A Geisha's Diary
Kiyomasa Tsutsui
Shag
1978
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Dancing Girl
Yagi
Last-Ditch Glory
1961
A Roaring Trade
1962
Hell's Companion
1959
A Second Life
1948
Striving to Live
1955
Ghost Story of Youth
Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
If Indeed One Loves
Gorô (segment 3)
Okuni and Gohei
Tomonojo
Ninja Assassins
1960
The Cannery Boat
Matsuki
Gunrō no machi
1952
Miniature
Wakabayashi
With Songs in My Heart
1958
The Orphan Brother
Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The husband
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Yasukichi Sakaza
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
First Love Story
Shohei Ganmaru
Across the Darkness
Takazawa
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
Detective Duel
1958
Modern People
1952
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
Ganpeki
1953
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Tachibana
Freedom School
1951
Going West: to the West
Shogo Kawahara
Haitoku no mesu
Naoyuki Nishizawa
Glory on the Summit
1962
A Public Benefactor
Kappei Arima
The School of Flesh
1965
Frame of Snow
Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
Duel in the Sun
Attorney
Deep River Melody
1960
Musume to watashi
1962
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
日本敗れず
1954
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
Seven Masks of Revenge
1955
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
The White Orchid
1951
Kagebōshi
小山田鉄心
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959
Hahakogusa
Mr. Fujiki
The Wind Blows Twice
Takayoshi Michihara
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Ditch
1954
Yume de aritai
1962
Scarface Senta
1949
Homecoming
1950
The Ataka Family
1952
The Sand City in Manchuria
Ishigami
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Masayuki Hoshina
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Kijima
I Am The Magician From Hell
1961
Summer in Eclipse
Kozo Mishima
The Purple Hood
1958
Blooms of Hell
1957
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960
His Pistol is Hell
1958
Born in Sin
1962
Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni
1952
Police Precinct Part 14
Maruyama
Epitaph to My Love
Kimura
The Estuary
1961
Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
1956
An Eagle Eyed Lord
1961
The Harbor Lights
1961
Netsuai sha
Murai
Professional Killers
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Ano hito wa ima
1963
Roar and Earth
1957
Women of Tokyo
Shoichi Kagami
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
The Black Current
1954
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
1982
The Doctor
1955
Sister with Sister
Michisuke Nishikata
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959
Nemuri Kyōshirō
1989
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
1955
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Katsura Kogoro
Maboroshi fujin
1949
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
Kojiro Yamaguchi
Their Legacy
1962
A Young Samurai
1955
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Hanemon(Otowaya)
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
Councilor Matsudaira Izu
Daybreak Chorus
Shingo Koide
Autumn Interlude
Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952
Love and Duty
1954
Mama's Diary
1954
Burden of Love
Jozaburo Araki
Gendai Mushuku
Nonomiya Shin
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
Passion Fire
奥田金馬太郎
Ane to imôto
Yoshirô Takaoka
The Silent Murder
1959
A Meeting of Youths
Haruki Eda
恐怖の空中殺人
劉元章
Tange Sazen
1990
Love's Family Tree
1961
Yagyu Abaretabi
1980
Hakuji no hito
Zensuke, Kanako's father
Karatachi no hana
1954
As Long as I Live
1946
Rumba of Passion
1950
A Woman's Fight
1949
The Chieko Story
Kotaro Takamura
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
Yagyu Munenori
TV Shows (10)
Professional Killers
Hanemon Otowaya · 33 eps
Haru no Sakamichi
Tokugawa Ieyasu · 52 eps
ザ・ハングマン
23 eps
Tasukenin Hashiru
36 eps
Ningen no Shōmei
13 eps
Yagyu's Secret Quest
Yagyu Munenori · 51 eps
The Yagyu Conspiracy
Yagyu Munenori · 39 eps
Pearl
Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited) · 2 eps
Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
Yagyu Munenori · 26 eps
Hijo no License
矢部 · 64 eps
