So Yamamura
Actor
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.
Filmography
Tokyo Story
as Koichi Hirayama 1953
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto 1970
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Okishima 1959
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
as Prime Minister 1991
Gung Ho
as Mr. Sakamoto 1986
Tokyo Twilight
as Seki Sekiguchi 1957
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Gômune Jindaiyu 1972
Early Spring
as Yutaka Kawai 1956
Antarctica
as Iwakiri Sencho 1983
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as An Lushan 1955
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Shingo 1954
Repast
1951
The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Governor Tamura 1958
The Munekata Sisters
as Ryosuke Mimura 1950
Japan's Longest Day
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai 1967
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Tateoka 1950
The Inheritance
as Senzô 1962