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Sō Yamamura

Actor
Died May 26, 2000 (90 years)
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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Tokyo Story
  • Tokyo Twilight
  • Early Spring
  • Princess Yang Kwei-fei
  • The Lady of Musashino
  • Shadow Warriors
  • The Yagyu Conspiracy
Known For
  • Tora! Tora! Tora!
  • Tokyo Story
  • Gung Ho
  • The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • Sound of the Mountain
  • Princess Yang Kwei-fei
  • Tokyo Twilight
  • The Barbarian and the Geisha
  • Akitsu Springs
  • The Inheritance
  • Early Spring
  • Japan's Longest Day
  • Antarctica
  • The Munekata Sisters
  • Burden of Love
  • The Lady of Musashino
  • With Beauty and Sorrow
  • Shadow Warriors
  • Portrait of Madame Yuki
  • Till We Meet Again
  • Women Are Born Twice
  • Taiheiyô kiseki no sakusen: Kisuka
  • Shadow Warriors

Filmography

1991
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah · as Prime Minister
1987
Tokyo Bordello · as Isaburo Okura
1986
Gung Ho · as Mr. Sakamoto
1985
The Second Is a Christian · as Nakatsugawa
1983
Antarctica · as Iwakiri Sencho
1980
Shadow Warriors (TV Series) · as Masayuki Nishina
1980
Shadow Warriors · as Masayuki Hoshina
1978
Pearl (TV Series) · as Admiral Nagumo, Commander Of Japanese Attack Force (uncredited)
1978
The Yagyu Conspiracy (TV Series) · as Yagyu Munenori
1975
1974
Prophecies of Nostradamus · as Prime Minister Kuroki
1974
1973
1973
Hissatsu shikakenin · as Hanemon(otowaya)
1972
1970
Tora! Tora! Tora! · as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1970
The Militarists · as Mitsumasa Yonai
1967
Japan's Longest Day · as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1965
1965
With Beauty and Sorrow · as Toshio Ôki
1963
Gyangu Chûshingura · as Tachibana
1963
1962
Diary of a Mad Old Man · as Tokusuke Rôjin
1962
1962
1962
Taiheiyô sensô to Himeyuri butai · as Taiwan Army Chief Of Staff
1962
The Inheritance · as Senzô
1962
1961
The Last War · as Prime Minister Masaki
1961
Women Are Born Twice · as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
1961
The Littlest Warrior · as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
1960
1960
1959
1959
1959
1959
1958
The Barbarian and the Geisha · as Governor Tamura
1958
1958
Little Peach · as Heishiro Hirayama, The Father
1957
The Hole · as Keikichi Shirasu
1957
1957
Tokyo Twilight · as Seki Sekiguchi
1956
1956
Darkness at Noon · as Yuji
1956
Early Spring · as Yutaka Kawai
1955
Till We Meet Again · as Daisuke Kaji
1955
1955
Ghost Story of Youth · as Tetsuya, Father Of Chiharu
1955
Burden of Love · as Jozaburo Araki
1955
1954
1954
Sound of the Mountain · as Ogata Shingo
1953
1953
Tokyo Story · as Koichi Hirayama
1953
Epitome · as Wakabayashi
1953
My Wonderful Yellow Car · as The Husband
1952
1952
Okuni and Gohei · as Tomonojo
1951
1951
1951
Dancing Girl · as Yagi
1951
1950
1950
1950
The Munekata Sisters · as Ryosuke Mimura
1950
1948
Taifuken no onna · as Kijima
1947
The Love of Sumako the Actress · as Hôgetsu Shimamura

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