So Yamamura

Actor

1910-02-24 – 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.

• Povestea din Tokyo (1953) — Koichi Hirayama
• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• Ningen no jôken I (1959) — Okishima
• ゴジラvsキングギドラ (1991) — Prime Minister
• Gung Ho (1986) — Mr. Sakamoto
• 東京暮色 (1957) — Seki Sekiguchi
• 子連れ狼 親の心子の心 (1972) — Gômune Jindaiyu
• 早春 (1956) — Yutaka Kawai
• 山の音 (1954) — Ogata Shingo
• 南極物語 (1983) — Iwakiri Sencho
• 楊貴妃 (1955) — An Lushan
• めし (1951)
• The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) — Governor Tamura
• 宗方姉妹 (1950) — Ryosuke Mimura
• 日本のいちばん長い日 (1967) — Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
• からみ合い (1962) — Senzô
• 雪夫人絵図 (1950) — Tateoka
• 秋津温泉 (1962) — Mikami
• 武蔵野夫人 (1951) — Eiji Ono
• 動脈列島 (1975)
• 続・忍びの者 (1963) — Mitsuhide
• 美しさと哀しみと (1965) — Toshio Ôki
• ノストラダムスの大予言 (1974) — Prime Minister Kuroki
• 杏っ子 (1958) — Heishiro Hirayama, the father