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