So Yamamura
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.
Acting
Movie
Tokyo Story
as Koichi Hirayama
1953
Movie
Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1970
Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Okishima
1959
Movie
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
as Prime Minister
1991
Movie
Gung Ho
as Mr. Sakamoto
1986
Movie
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Gômune Jindaiyu
1972
Movie
Tokyo Twilight
as Seki Sekiguchi
1957
Movie
Early Spring
as Yutaka Kawai
1956
Movie
Antarctica
as Iwakiri Sencho
1983
Movie
Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Shingo
1954
Movie
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
as An Lushan
1955
Movie
Repast
1951
Movie
The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Governor Tamura
1958
Movie
The Munekata Sisters
as Ryosuke Mimura
1950
Movie
Japan's Longest Day
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1967
Movie
The Inheritance
as Senzô
1962
Movie
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Tateoka
1950
Movie
Akitsu Hot Springs
as Mikami
1962
Movie
The Lady of Musashino
as Eiji Ono
1951
Movie
Main Line to Terror
1975
Movie
With Beauty and Sorrow
as Toshio Ôki
1965
Movie
Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Prime Minister Kuroki
1974
Movie
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as Mitsuhide
1963
Movie
Little Peach
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
1958
