So Yamamura
Born: 1910-02-24
• 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
Going West: to the West
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
Tange Sazen
Nemuri Kyōshirō
Tokyo Bordello
Gung Ho
The Second Is a Christian
Kanei Command Performance
Antarctica
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
Yagyu Abaretabi
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Shag
Main Line to Terror
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Professional Killers
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
The Militarists
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Japan's Longest Day
The Retreat from Kiska
With Beauty and Sorrow
The School of Flesh
A Public Benefactor
Daybreak Chorus
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Ano hito wa ima
At the Side of the Bridge 3
Born in Sin
Diary of a Mad Old Man
A Flame at the Pier
Records of loyal vassals
Glory on the Summit
Star of Hong Kong
Akitsu Hot Springs
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Musume to watashi
The Inheritance
Drunkard's Paradise
Yume de aritai
A Roaring Trade
Their Legacy
Love's Family Tree
The Last War
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
Netsuai sha
Haitoku no mesu
A Geisha's Diary
The Estuary
The Orphan Brother
An Eagle Eyed Lord
Epitaph to My Love
Gonin no totsugeki tai
No Image
Samurai Hawk
Women of Tokyo
The Harbor Lights
Hell's Juggler
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
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
No Image
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
続べらんめぇ芸者
Across the Darkness
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
Hell's Companion
Hahakogusa
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
The Purple Hood
The Barbarian and the Geisha
With Songs in My Heart
Detective Duel
Oban kanketsu hen
His Pistol is Hell
Little Peach
Roar and Earth
Hole in One
Jigoku bana
When It Rains, It Pours
Tokyo Twilight
Night Butterflies
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
白磁の人
恐怖の空中殺人
Tsukigata Hanpeita