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So Yamamura

Acting · Born February 24, 1910 · Tenri, 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.

Movies with So Yamamura

• Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) — Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
• Tokyo Story (1953) — Koichi Hirayama
• The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959) — Okishima
• Gung Ho (1986) — Mr. Sakamoto
• Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991) — Prime Minister
• Diary of a Mad Old Man (1962) — Tokusuke Rôjin
• The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958) — Governor Tamura
• Repast (1951)
• Tokyo Twilight (1957) — Seki Sekiguchi
• Early Spring (1956) — Yutaka Kawai
• Japan's Longest Day (1967) — Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
• Antarctica (1983) — Iwakiri Sencho

TV shows with So Yamamura

• Professional Killers (1972) — Hanemon Otowaya
• Haru no Sakamichi (1971) — Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Tasukenin Hashiru (1973)
• Hijo no License (1973) — 矢部
• Yagyu's Secret Quest (1980) — Yagyu Munenori
• The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978) — Yagyu Munenori
• Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest (1982) — Yagyu Munenori
• Ningen no Shōmei (1978)