Sō Yamamura

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1910-02-24 (90 years old)

Deathday

2000-05-26

Place of Birth

Tenri, Japan

Sō Yamamura

Biography

Sō Yamamura (山村聰, Yamamura Sō, 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.

Acting

1970

Tora! Tora! Tora!

as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

1956

Early Spring

as Yutaka Kawai

1986

Gung Ho

as Mr. Sakamoto

1991

1960

Victory and Defeat

as Kimpei Minegishi

1950

Duel in the Sun

as Attorney

1950

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

as Hirate (Sake brewer)

1947

The Love of the Actress Sumako

as Hôgetsu Shimamura

1951

1954

Sound of the Mountain

as Ogata Shingo

1967

Japan's Longest Day

as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

1983

Antarctica

as Iwakiri Sencho

1958

1953

Tokyo Story

as Koichi Hirayama

1957

Tokyo Twilight

as Seki Sekiguchi

1950

The Munekata Sisters

as Ryosuke Mimura

1955

1961

The Last War

as Prime Minister Masaki

1962

Star of Hong Kong

as Gentaro Sugimoto

1962

1980

1957

Hole in One

as Keikichi Shirasu

1965

1958

Little Peach

as Heishiro Hirayama, the father

1950

Kagebōshi

as 小山田鉄心

1952

Passion Fire

as 奥田金馬太郎

1961

Women of Tokyo

as Shoichi Kagami

1951

1953

Miniature

as Wakabayashi

1959

Hahakogusa

as Mr. Fujiki

1964

A Public Benefactor

as Kappei Arima

1951

1978

1957

Night Butterflies

as Ichiro Shirasawa

1985

1953

1970

The Militarists

as Mitsumasa Yonai

1962

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff

1958

Sister with Sister

as Michisuke Nishikata

1962

Diary of a Mad Old Man

as Tokusuke Rôjin

1952

Okuni and Gohei

as Tomonojo

1961

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

as Councilor Matsudaira Izu

1965

1961

A Geisha's Diary

as Kiyomasa Tsutsui

1955

Burden of Love

as Jozaburo Araki

1973

Professional Killers

as Hanemon(Otowaya)

1961

1961

The Orphan Brother

as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)

1956

1951

Miki, the Swordman

as Hirate Miki

1955

Till We Meet Again

as Daisuke Kaji

1952

1955

Ghost Story of Youth

as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Prime Minister Kuroki

1953

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

as Gorô (segment 3)

1956

Tsukigata Hanpeita

as Katsura Kogoro

1961

Haitoku no mesu

as Naoyuki Nishizawa

1959

1961

Netsuai sha

as Murai

1956

Summer in Eclipse

as Kozo Mishima

Production

1955

The Doctor

as Director

1959

1955

The Doctor

as Screenplay

1959

Hahakogusa

as Director

1953

The Cannery Boat

as Screenplay

1953

The Cannery Boat

as Director

1960

1954

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