So Yamamura

Personal Info

Birthday

February 24, 1910

Day of Death

2000-05-26

(90 years old)

Place of Birth

Tenri, Nara, Japan

Also Known As

Hirosada Koga

山村聡

山村聰

Со Ямамура

山村聪

Soh Yamamura

Sou Yamamura

Satoru Yamamura

So Yamamura

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.

Known For

Tokyo Story

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Tokyo Twilight

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Tokyo Bordello

Frame of Snow

Filmography

1997
Going West: to the West
as Shogo Kawahara
1991
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
as Prime Minister
1987
Tokyo Bordello
as Isaburo Okura
1986
Gung Ho
as Mr. Sakamoto
1985
The Second Is a Christian
as Nakatsugawa
1983
Antarctica
as Iwakiri Sencho
1980
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Masayuki Hoshina
1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Prime Minister Kuroki
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
Professional Killers
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Gômune Jindaiyu
1970
The Militarists
as Mitsumasa Yonai
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1967
Japan's Longest Day
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1965
The Retreat from Kiska
as Kawashima
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Toshio Ôki
1964
A Public Benefactor
as Kappei Arima
1963
Daybreak Chorus
as Shingo Koide
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
as Tachibana
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Tokusuke Rôjin
Star of Hong Kong
as Gentaro Sugimoto
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Mikami
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
The Inheritance
as Senzô
1961
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 Orphan Brother
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
Epitaph to My Love
as Kimura
Women of Tokyo
as Shoichi Kagami
1960
The Sand City in Manchuria
as Ishigami
Police Precinct Part 14
as Maruyama
Victory and Defeat
as Kimpei Minegishi
1959
Across the Darkness
as Takazawa
Hahakogusa
as Mr. Fujiki
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Okishima
1958
Sister with Sister
as Michisuke Nishikata
The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Governor Tamura
Little Peach
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
1957
Hole in One
as Keikichi Shirasu
Tokyo Twilight
as Seki Sekiguchi
Night Butterflies
as Ichiro Shirasawa
1956
恐怖の空中殺人
as 劉元章

Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Katsura Kogoro
Summer in Eclipse
as Kozo Mishima
Darkness at Noon
as Yuji
Early Spring
as Yutaka Kawai
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
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)
Burden of Love
as Jozaburo Araki
1954
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Shingo
1953
Tokyo Story
as Koichi Hirayama
The Cannery Boat
as Matsuki
Miniature
as Wakabayashi
My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The husband
1952
Passion Fire
as 奥田金馬太郎

The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi Sakaza
Okuni and Gohei
as Tomonojo
1951
Miki, the Swordman
as Hirate Miki
The Lady of Musashino
as Eiji Ono
Dancing Girl
as Yagi
1950
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as Hirate (Sake brewer)
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Tateoka
The Munekata Sisters
as Ryosuke Mimura
Duel in the Sun
as Attorney
Kagebōshi
as 小山田鉄心
1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kijima
1947
The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Hôgetsu Shimamura