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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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Tenri, Japan, 1910-02-24

Died: 2000-05-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1946	As Long as I Live		0
2	1947	The Love of the Actress Sumako	Hôgetsu Shimamura	68
3	1948	A Second Life		0
4	1948	A Woman in the Typhoon Area	Kijima	50
5	1948	Yūkyō no mure		0
6	1949	Kirare no Senta		0
7	1950	Kagebōshi	小山田鉄心	0
8	1950	Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu		0
9	1950	Duel in the Sun	Attorney	0
10	1950	Song of Love		0
11	1950	White Beast		60
12	1950	The Munekata Sisters	Ryosuke Mimura	70
13	1950	Senka o koete		0
14	1950	Portrait of Madame Yuki	Tateoka	69
15	1950	Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog	Hirate (Sake brewer)	0
16	1950	Homecoming		0
17	1950	Rumba of Passion		0
18	1951	The White Orchid		0
19	1951	Who Will Judge Me?		0
20	1951	Dancing Girl	Yagi	63
21	1951	The Lady of Musashino	Eiji Ono	64
22	1951	Hibari no komoriuta		60
23	1951	Honoo no hada		0
24	1951	Miki, the Swordman	Hirate Miki	50
25	1951	Repast		76
26	1952	The Wind Blows Twice		0
27	1952	Riverside Fish Market Empire		0
28	1952	Okuni and Gohei	Tomonojo	64
29	1952	Kin no tamago: Golden Girl		0
30	1952	The Ataka Family		55
31	1952	Modern People		25
32	1952	The Woman Who Touched the Legs	Yasukichi Sakaza	0
33	1952	Passion Fire	奥田金馬太郎	0
34	1953	My Wonderful Yellow Car	The husband	60
35	1953	Murahachibu		0
36	1953	Miniature	Wakabayashi	80
37	1953	Ganpeki		0
38	1953	The Cannery Boat	Matsuki	80
39	1953	Tokyo Story	Koichi Hirayama	82
40	1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		61
41	1954	Sound of the Mountain	Ogata Shingo	74
42	1954	Love and Duty		0
43	1954	The Ditch		70
44	1954	The Black Current		0
45	1954	Karatachi no hana		0
46	1954	日本敗れず		0
47	1955	Striving to Live		0
48	1955	Burden of Love	Jozaburo Araki	68
49	1955	A Young Samurai		0
50	1955	Ghost Story of Youth	Tetsuya, father of Chiharu	0
51	1955	Princess Yang Kwei-fei	An Lushan	67
52	1955	Till We Meet Again	Daisuke Kaji	62
53	1955	Ai Sureba Koso	Gorô (segment 3)	0
54	1955	Seven Masks of Revenge		0
55	1955	The Doctor		0
56	1956	Early Spring	Yutaka Kawai	75
57	1956	春のみづうみ		0
58	1956	Darkness at Noon	Yuji	66
59	1956	Tsukigata Hanpeita	Katsura Kogoro	70
60	1957	白磁の人		0
61	1957	Typhoon Over Nagasaki		62
62	1957	Night Butterflies	Ichiro Shirasawa	63
63	1957	Tokyo Twilight	Seki Sekiguchi	77
64	1957	When It Rains, It Pours		60
65	1957	Jigoku bana		0
66	1957	Hole in One	Keikichi Shirasu	60
67	1957	Roar and Earth		60
68	1958	Little Peach	Heishiro Hirayama, the father	58
69	1958	Oban kanketsu hen		0
70	1958	Detective Duel		60
71	1958	With Songs in My Heart		0
72	1958	The Barbarian and the Geisha	Governor Tamura	59
73	1958	The Purple Hood		50
74	1958	Sister with Sister	Michisuke Nishikata	0
75	1959	Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2		0
76	1959	The Human Condition I: No Greater Love	Okishima	81
77	1959	The 47 Masterless Samurai		72
78	1959	Men in a Rough Town		0
79	1959	Whirlwind Magistrate		55
80	1959	Hahakogusa	Mr. Fujiki	0
81	1959	Hell's Companion		0
82	1959	Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord		60
83	1959	Across the Darkness	Takazawa	0
84	1960	The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2		0
85	1960	続べらんめぇ芸者		0
86	1960	Ryuji, the Gun Slinger		0
87	1960	Victory and Defeat	Kimpei Minegishi	0
88	1960	Police Precinct Part 14	Maruyama	0
89	1960	Ninja Assassins		60
90	1960	Life of a Country Doctor		0
91	1960	The Sand City in Manchuria	Ishigami	65
92	1960	Deep River Melody		60
93	1961	The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4		0
94	1961	べらんめぇ藝者罷り通る		0
95	1961	Hell's Juggler		0
96	1961	The Harbor Lights		50
97	1961	Women of Tokyo	Shoichi Kagami	0
98	1961	Samurai Hawk		52
99	1961	Gonin no totsugeki tai		0
100	1961	Epitaph to My Love	Kimura	70
101	1961	An Eagle Eyed Lord		0
102	1961	The Orphan Brother	Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)	61
103	1961	The Estuary		0
104	1961	A Geisha's Diary	Kiyomasa Tsutsui	72
105	1961	Haitoku no mesu	Naoyuki Nishizawa	0
106	1961	Netsuai sha	Murai	0
107	1961	The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku	Councilor Matsudaira Izu	0
108	1961	The Last War	Prime Minister Masaki	62
109	1961	Love's Family Tree		0
110	1962	A Roaring Trade		0
111	1962	Their Legacy		0
112	1962	Yume de aritai		0
113	1962	Drunkard's Paradise		0
114	1962	The Inheritance	Senzô	72
115	1962	Musume to watashi		0
116	1962	The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps	Taiwan Army Chief of Staff	0
117	1962	あの空の果てに星はまたたく		0
118	1962	Akitsu Hot Springs		65
119	1962	Star of Hong Kong	Gentaro Sugimoto	0
120	1962	Glory on the Summit		0
121	1962	Records of loyal vassals		0
122	1962	A Flame at the Pier		60
123	1962	Diary of a Mad Old Man	Tokusuke Rôjin	65
124	1962	Born in Sin		0
125	1963	At the Side of the Bridge 3		0
126	1963	Ano hito wa ima		0
127	1963	Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance		68
128	1963	Gang Loyalty and Vengeance	Tachibana	50
129	1964	A Public Benefactor	Kappei Arima	0
130	1965	The School of Flesh		20
131	1965	With Beauty and Sorrow	Toshio Ôki	57
132	1965	The Retreat from Kiska	Kawashima	83
133	1967	Japan's Longest Day	Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai	71
134	1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto	71
135	1970	The Militarists	Mitsumasa Yonai	80
136	1972	Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril	Gômune Jindaiyu	73
137	1973	Professional Killers	Hanemon(Otowaya)	75
138	1973	Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry	Hanemon(Otowaya)	90
139	1974	Professional Killers – Assignment by Night	Hanemon(Otowaya)	100
140	1974	Prophecies of Nostradamus	Prime Minister Kuroki	60
141	1975	Main Line to Terror		60
142	1978	Shag		70
143	1980	Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo	Masayuki Hoshina	80
144	1982	The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S		25
145	1983	Antarctica	Iwakiri Sencho	72
146	1983	Kanei Command Performance		0
147	1985	The Second Is a Christian	Nakatsugawa	50
148	1986	Gung Ho	Mr. Sakamoto	60
149	1989	Nemuri Kyōshirō		70
150	1990	Tange Sazen		0
151	1991	Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah	Prime Minister	70
152	1992	Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan		0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1971	Haru no Sakamichi	Tokugawa Ieyasu	0
2	1972	Professional Killers	Hanemon Otowaya	73
3	1973	非情のライセンス	矢部	0
4	1978	Ningen no Shōmei		0
5	1978	The Yagyu Conspiracy	Yagyu Munenori	70
6	1978	Pearl	Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)	64
7	1980	Yagyu's Secret Quest	Yagyu Munenori	0
8	1980	ザ・ハングマン		0
9	1982	Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest	Yagyu Munenori	100