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