
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