So Yamamura
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.
Known For
Top 40 Movies
Going West: to the West
1997
A Woman's Fight
1949
Daybreak Chorus
1963
Tokyo Story
1953
Burden of Love
1955
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
The Purple Hood
1958
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
1948
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
Tokyo Twilight
1957
Tsukigata Hanpeita
1956
Tange Sazen
1990
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
Modern People
1952
The Orphan Brother
1961
The Last War
1961
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Gung Ho
1986
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
Japan's Longest Day
1967
Tokyo Bordello
1987
Little Peach
1958
Shag
1978
Rumba of Passion
1950
Sound of the Mountain
1954
Antarctica
1983
Glory on the Summit
1962
Repast
1951
Miniature
1953
The Lady of Musashino
1951
Gonin no totsugeki tai
1961
日本敗れず
1954
A Public Benefactor
1964
With Beauty and Sorrow
1965
His Pistol is Hell
1958
The Love of the Actress Sumako
1947
With Songs in My Heart
1958
Early Spring
1956