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So Yamamura

Acting Born Feb 24, 1910 Tenri, Nara, Japan 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

Tokyo Story

as Koichi Hirayama
Film

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

as Prime Minister
Film

Gung Ho

as Mr. Sakamoto

Jewelpet

as An Lushan

Full filmography

  • Professional Killers (1972) as Hanemon Otowaya
  • Tokyo Story (1953) as Koichi Hirayama
  • Haru no Sakamichi (1971) as Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) as Prime Minister
  • Ningen no Shōmei (1978)
  • Pearl (1978) as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) as Okishima
  • Japan's Longest Day (1967) as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972) as Gômune Jindaiyu
  • Gung Ho (1986) as Mr. Sakamoto
  • ザ・ハングマン (1980)
  • The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978) as Yagyu Munenori
  • Early Spring (1956) as Yutaka Kawai
  • Prophecies of Nostradamus (1974) as Prime Minister Kuroki
  • The Militarists (1970) as Mitsumasa Yonai
  • Tokyo Twilight (1957) as Seki Sekiguchi
  • Princess Yang Kwei-fei (1955) as An Lushan
  • Tasukenin Hashiru (1973)
  • Repast (1951)
  • Antarctica (1983) as Iwakiri Sencho
  • The Orphan Brother (1961) as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
  • The Last War (1961) as Prime Minister Masaki
  • Sound of the Mountain (1954) as Ogata Shingo