So Yamamura
Known for ActingBorn 1910-02-24 — died 2000-05-26Tenri, Nara, Japan
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.
Known for
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970 · as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991 · as Prime Minister
Tokyo Story
1953 · as Koichi Hirayama
Gung Ho
1986 · as Mr. Sakamoto
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972 · as Gômune Jindaiyu
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · as Okishima
Japan's Longest Day
1967 · as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
Antarctica
1983 · as Iwakiri Sencho
Tokyo Bordello
1987 · as Isaburo Okura
The Black Current
1954
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955 · as An Lushan
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Tokyo Twilight
1957 · as Seki Sekiguchi
Early Spring
1956 · as Yutaka Kawai
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
Epitaph to My Love
1961 · as Kimura
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960
Sound of the Mountain
1954 · as Ogata Shingo