So Yamamura
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 24, 1910
- Place of birth
- Tenri, Nara, Japan
- Died
- May 26, 2000
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.
Movies with So Yamamura
- Tokyo Story 1953 · ★ 8.2
- Tora! Tora! Tora! 1970 · ★ 7.2
- The Human Condition I: No Greater Love 1959 · ★ 8.2
- Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah 1991 · ★ 7.0
- Gung Ho 1986 · ★ 6.1
- Tokyo Twilight 1957 · ★ 7.7
- Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril 1972 · ★ 7.3
- Early Spring 1956 · ★ 7.5
- Sound of the Mountain 1954 · ★ 7.4
- Antarctica 1983 · ★ 7.2
- Princess Yang Kwei-fei 1955 · ★ 6.7
- Repast 1951 · ★ 7.6
- The Barbarian and the Geisha 1958 · ★ 6.1
- The Munekata Sisters 1950 · ★ 7.1
- Japan's Longest Day 1967 · ★ 7.3
- The Inheritance 1962 · ★ 7.3
- Portrait of Madame Yuki 1950 · ★ 6.8
- Akitsu Hot Springs 1962 · ★ 6.5
- The Lady of Musashino 1951 · ★ 6.3
- Main Line to Terror 1975 · ★ 6.2
- Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance 1963 · ★ 6.9
- With Beauty and Sorrow 1965 · ★ 5.7
- Prophecies of Nostradamus 1974 · ★ 5.7
- Little Peach 1958 · ★ 6.1
- Typhoon Over Nagasaki 1957 · ★ 6.2
- The Last War 1961 · ★ 6.8
- A Geisha's Diary 1961 · ★ 7.5
- White Beast 1950 · ★ 5.8
- Okuni and Gohei 1952 · ★ 6.3
- The Orphan Brother 1961 · ★ 6.3
- Dancing Girl 1951 · ★ 6.4
- A Flame at the Pier 1962 · ★ 6.1
- Tokyo Bordello 1987 · ★ 5.6
- An Inlet of Muddy Water 1953 · ★ 6.2
- Burden of Love 1955 · ★ 6.8
- The Love of the Actress Sumako 1947 · ★ 7.0
- Samurai Hawk 1961 · ★ 6.2
- The 47 Masterless Samurai 1959 · ★ 7.4
- The Retreat from Kiska 1965 · ★ 8.4
- Professional Killers 1973 · ★ 8.0
Movies directed by So Yamamura
- The Cannery Boat 1953 · ★ 8.5
- The Doctor 1955 · ★ 10.0
- Deep River Melody 1960 · ★ 6.0
- The Black Current 1954 · ★ 10.0
- Kashima-nada no onna 1959
- Hahakogusa 1959