Cast
So Yamamura
Acting
Cast
So Yamamura
Known for
Acting
Born
1910-02-24
From
Tenri, Nara, Japan
Died
2000-05-26
Also known as Hirosada Koga, 山村聡, 山村聰
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.
★8.2
MOVIE1953
Tokyo Story
as Koichi Hirayama
★7.5
MOVIE1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kijima
★7.1
MOVIE1955
Burden of Love
as Jozaburo Araki
★8.0
MOVIE1951
Who Will Judge Me?
★7.2
MOVIE1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
★8.5
MOVIE1960
Life of a Country Doctor
★10.0
MOVIE1954
The Black Current
MOVIE1951
Honoo no hada
MOVIE1946
As Long as I Live
★7.8
MOVIE1961
Epitaph to My Love
as Kimura
★8.0
MOVIE1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
MOVIE1950
Rumba of Passion
★6.0
MOVIE1957
When It Rains, It Pours
★7.0
MOVIE1989
Nemuri Kyōshirō
MOVIE1962
Drunkard's Paradise
★9.0
MOVIE1960
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
★6.1
MOVIE1986
Gung Ho
as Mr. Sakamoto
★10.0
MOVIE1962
Their Legacy
★7.0
MOVIE1991
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
as Prime Minister
★6.3
MOVIE1961
The Harbor Lights
★8.1
MOVIE1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Okishima
★7.3
MOVIE1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Gômune Jindaiyu
★6.3
MOVIE1961
The Orphan Brother
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
MOVIE1952
Gunrō no machi
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Hell's Juggler
MOVIE1954
Mama's Diary
★6.7
MOVIE1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as An Lushan
★3.3
MOVIE1952
Modern People
★7.2
MOVIE1983
Antarctica
as Iwakiri Sencho
★5.6
MOVIE1987
Tokyo Bordello
as Isaburo Okura
MOVIE1951
Wagtail Tune
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Oka wa hanazakari
MOVIE1958
Gendai Mushuku
as Nonomiya Shin
MOVIE1957
First Love Story
as Shohei Ganmaru
MOVIE1963
The House Where Flowers Bloom
★6.1
MOVIE1962
A Flame at the Pier
MOVIE1954
Autumn Interlude
as Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
MOVIE1954
Love and Duty
★6.0
MOVIE1958
The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Governor Tamura
★8.0
MOVIE1954
お月様には悪いけど
as ヤーさん
MOVIE1957
The Chieko Story
as Kotaro Takamura
★7.7
MOVIE1957
Tokyo Twilight
as Seki Sekiguchi
★7.3
MOVIE1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
★8.5
MOVIE1965
The Retreat from Kiska
as Kawashima
MOVIE1980
Yagyu Abaretabi
MOVIE1990
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
as Yagyu Munenori
★7.1
MOVIE1950
The Munekata Sisters
as Ryosuke Mimura
★10.0
MOVIE1955
Frame of Snow
as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
MOVIE1952
A Meeting of Youths
as Haruki Eda
★9.3
MOVIE1973
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
MOVIE1959
The Silent Murder
★7.4
MOVIE1954
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Shingo
★5.9
MOVIE1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Prime Minister Kuroki
★6.2
MOVIE1957
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
★7.5
MOVIE1956
Early Spring
as Yutaka Kawai
★6.0
MOVIE1985
The Second Is a Christian
as Nakatsugawa
★6.8
MOVIE1961
The Last War
as Prime Minister Masaki
★5.7
MOVIE1965
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Toshio Ôki
MOVIE1948
A Woman Who Convicts Men
★6.9
MOVIE1963
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as Mitsuhide
MOVIE1956
恐怖の空中殺人
as 劉元章
★6.1
MOVIE1958
Little Peach
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
★6.9
MOVIE1956
Darkness at Noon
as Yuji
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Glory on the Summit
★7.5
MOVIE1961
A Geisha's Diary
as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
★6.7
MOVIE1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Tokusuke Rôjin
★8.0
MOVIE1973
Professional Killers
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
★8.0
MOVIE1950
Senka o koete
★7.3
MOVIE1962
The Inheritance
as Senzô
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Tateoka
★6.3
MOVIE1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
★7.5
MOVIE1970
The Militarists
as Mitsumasa Yonai
★6.5
MOVIE1960
The Sand City in Manchuria
as Ishigami
★10.0
MOVIE1955
Ghost Story of Youth
as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
★6.6
MOVIE1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Mikami
★6.0
MOVIE1980
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Masayuki Hoshina
★5.6
MOVIE1950
White Beast
MOVIE1963
Ano hito wa ima
MOVIE1950
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as Hirate (Sake brewer)
★6.0
MOVIE1959
Whirlwind Magistrate
★5.7
MOVIE1963
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
as Tachibana
MOVIE1948
Yūkyō no mure
★5.8
MOVIE1965
The School of Flesh
★9.0
MOVIE1961
Netsuai sha
as Murai
MOVIE1955
Striving to Live
MOVIE1961
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
MOVIE1950
Duel in the Sun
as Attorney
★5.0
MOVIE1951
Miki, the Swordman
as Hirate Miki
★7.0
MOVIE1954
日本敗れず
MOVIE1955
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
MOVIE1962
A Roaring Trade
★10.0
MOVIE1955
If Indeed One Loves
as Gorô (segment 3)
★6.0
MOVIE1958
Detective Duel
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Till We Meet Again
as Daisuke Kaji
MOVIE1992
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Night Butterflies
as Ichiro Shirasawa
MOVIE1958
Sister with Sister
as Michisuke Nishikata
★6.4
MOVIE1951
Dancing Girl
as Yagi
★8.0
MOVIE1962
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
★8.0
MOVIE1962
Star of Hong Kong
as Gentaro Sugimoto
★10.0
MOVIE1961
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
MOVIE1959
Hahakogusa
as Mr. Fujiki
★6.2
MOVIE1951
The Lady of Musashino
as Eiji Ono
★6.0
MOVIE1960
Deep River Melody
MOVIE1960
Police Precinct Part 14
as Maruyama
★7.0
MOVIE1964
A Public Benefactor
as Kappei Arima
MOVIE1958
With Songs in My Heart
MOVIE1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
★8.5
MOVIE1953
The Cannery Boat
as Matsuki
★7.0
MOVIE1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Hôgetsu Shimamura
★6.2
MOVIE1975
Main Line to Terror
MOVIE1963
Daybreak Chorus
as Shingo Koide
★7.0
MOVIE1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The husband
★7.5
MOVIE1978
Shag
★7.5
MOVIE1954
Ditch
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Kirare no Senta
MOVIE1952
The Wind Blows Twice
MOVIE1955
A Young Samurai
★2.5
MOVIE1982
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Haitoku no mesu
as Naoyuki Nishizawa
★7.0
MOVIE1948
A Second Life
MOVIE1962
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
★10.0
MOVIE1962
Musume to watashi
MOVIE1950
Kagebōshi
as 小山田鉄心
★8.0
MOVIE1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
★7.4
MOVIE1959
The 47 Masterless Samurai
★9.0
MOVIE1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Katsura Kogoro
★8.0
MOVIE1952
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi Sakaza
MOVIE1962
Records of loyal vassals
★7.8
MOVIE1953
Miniature
as Wakabayashi
★6.3
MOVIE1952
Okuni and Gohei
as Tomonojo
MOVIE1951
The White Orchid
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Hole in One
as Keikichi Shirasu
★10.0
MOVIE1974
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
★6.2
MOVIE1961
Samurai Hawk
MOVIE1990
Tange Sazen
★5.4
MOVIE1958
The Purple Hood
MOVIE1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
★8.0
MOVIE1950
Homecoming
MOVIE1961
Women of Tokyo
as Shoichi Kagami
MOVIE1956
Summer in Eclipse
as Kozo Mishima
★10.0
MOVIE1961
Gonin no totsugeki tai
MOVIE1949
A Woman's Fight
MOVIE1952
Passion Fire
as 奥田金馬太郎
★6.0
MOVIE1960
Ninja Assassins
★7.6
MOVIE1951
Repast
MOVIE1958
His Pistol is Hell
MOVIE1953
Ganpeki
MOVIE1957
白磁の人
MOVIE1997
Going West: to the West
as Shogo Kawahara
MOVIE1959
The Bastards of Lawless Town
★9.0
MOVIE1959
Across the Darkness
as Takazawa
★10.0
MOVIE1955
The Doctor
MOVIE1952
Riverside Fish Market Empire
★10.0
MOVIE1954
Karatachi no hana
MOVIE1959
Hell's Companion
★8.0
MOVIE1959
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
MOVIE1961
Love's Family Tree
MOVIE1960
続べらんめぇ芸者
MOVIE1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
MOVIE1955
Seven Masks of Revenge
MOVIE1956
Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
MOVIE1962
Yume de aritai
MOVIE1983
Kanei Command Performance
★9.0
MOVIE1962
Born in Sin
★9.0
MOVIE1957
Jigoku bana
MOVIE1961
The Estuary
MOVIE1950
Song of Love
★8.0
MOVIE1957
Roar and Earth
★8.0
MOVIE1960
Victory and Defeat
as Kimpei Minegishi
MOVIE1953
Murahachibu
★6.0
MOVIE1951
Hibari no komoriuta
MOVIE1958
Oban kanketsu hen
★5.5
MOVIE1952