Sō Yamamura

Sō Yamamura

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.

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
Prime Minister
Tange Sazen
1990
Nemuri Kyōshirō
1989
Gung Ho
1986
Mr. Sakamoto
The Second Is a Christian
1985
Nakatsugawa
Antarctica
1983
Iwakiri Sencho
Kanei Command Performance
1983
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
1982
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
1980
Masayuki Hoshina
Shag
1978
Main Line to Terror
1975
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Prime Minister Kuroki
Professional Killers
1973
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
1973
Hanemon(Otowaya)
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Gômune Jindaiyu
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
The Militarists
1970
Mitsumasa Yonai
Japan's Longest Day
1967
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
Toshio Ôki
The School of Flesh
1965
The Retreat from Kiska
1965
Kawashima
A Public Benefactor
1964
Kappei Arima
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
1963
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
Tachibana
Ano hito wa ima
1963
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
Yume de aritai
1962
Musume to watashi
1962
Star of Hong Kong
1962
Gentaro Sugimoto
あの空の果てに星はまたたく
1962
The Inheritance
1962
Senzô
Records of loyal vassals
1962
A Roaring Trade
1962
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
Mikami
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1962
Tokusuke Rôjin
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
Born in Sin
1962
Glory on the Summit
1962
Their Legacy
1962
Gonin no totsugeki tai
1961
The Estuary
1961
The Last War
1961
Prime Minister Masaki
Love's Family Tree
1961
Women of Tokyo
1961
Shoichi Kagami
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
1961
Councilor Matsudaira Izu
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
A Geisha's Diary
1961
Kiyomasa Tsutsui
Epitaph to My Love
1961
Kimura
The Orphan Brother
1961
Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
The Harbor Lights
1961
Hell's Juggler
1961
An Eagle Eyed Lord
1961
Haitoku no mesu
1961
Naoyuki Nishizawa
Netsuai sha
1961
Murai
べらんめぇ藝者罷り通る
1961
Deep River Melody
1960
Director
Police Precinct Part 14
1960
Maruyama
Victory and Defeat
1960
Kimpei Minegishi
The Sand City in Manchuria
1960
Ishigami
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
Ninja Assassins
1960
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960
Hahakogusa
1959
Director
Kashima-nada no onna
1959
Director
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Okishima
Hell's Companion
1959
The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959
Across the Darkness
1959
Takazawa
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959
The Barbarian and the Geisha
1958
Governor Tamura
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
Little Peach
1958
Heishiro Hirayama, the father
With Songs in My Heart
1958
Sister with Sister
1958
Michisuke Nishikata
Detective Duel
1958
The Purple Hood
1958
His Pistol is Hell
1958
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Seki Sekiguchi
Hole in One
1957
Keikichi Shirasu
白磁の人
1957
Night Butterflies
1957
Ichiro Shirasawa
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Jigoku bana
1957
Roar and Earth
1957
Early Spring
1956
Yutaka Kawai
春のみづうみ
1956
Darkness at Noon
1956
Yuji
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
Katsura Kogoro
Summer in Eclipse
1956
Kozo Mishima
The Doctor
1955
Director
Striving to Live
1955
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
An Lushan
Burden of Love
1955
Jozaburo Araki
Seven Masks of Revenge
1955
Till We Meet Again
1955
Daisuke Kaji
Ghost Story of Youth
1955
Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
Ai Sureba Koso
1955
Gorô (segment 3)
A Young Samurai
1955
The Black Current
1954
Director
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Ogata Shingo
The Ditch
1954
Love and Duty
1954
Karatachi no hana
1954
日本敗れず
1954
The Cannery Boat
1953
Director
Tokyo Story
1953
Koichi Hirayama
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Murahachibu
1953
Miniature
1953
Wakabayashi
My Wonderful Yellow Car
1953
The husband
Ganpeki
1953
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952
Passion Fire
1952
奥田金馬太郎
Modern People
1952
The Wind Blows Twice
1952
The Ataka Family
1952
Okuni and Gohei
1952
Tomonojo
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952
Yasukichi Sakaza
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
Repast
1951
Dancing Girl
1951
Yagi
The Lady of Musashino
1951
Eiji Ono
Miki, the Swordman
1951
Hirate Miki
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
The White Orchid
1951
Duel in the Sun
1950
Attorney
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950
Hirate (Sake brewer)
The Munekata Sisters
1950
Ryosuke Mimura
White Beast
1950
Kagebōshi
1950
小山田鉄心
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
Tateoka
Rumba of Passion
1950
Homecoming
1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Kirare no Senta
1949
Yūkyō no mure
1948
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
Kijima
A Second Life
1948
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
Hôgetsu Shimamura
As Long as I Live
1946