Cast & creator
So Yamamura
Best known for Professional Killers, Haru no Sakamichi, Tora! Tora! Tora!
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.
Also known as: Hirosada Koga, 山村聡, 山村聰, Со Ямамура, 山村聪
189
film credits
10
television credits
191
1946–1997 · acting roles
7.5
average across scored titles
Signature credits
Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (199)
Showing 199 of 199 credits
Professional Killers
Hanemon Otowaya
1972
Haru no Sakamichi
Tokugawa Ieyasu
1971
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
1970
Tokyo Story
Koichi Hirayama
1953
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Okishima
1959
ザ・ハングマン
1980
Pearl
Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
1978
Yagyu's Secret Quest
Yagyu Munenori
1980
Gung Ho
Mr. Sakamoto
1986
The Yagyu Conspiracy
Yagyu Munenori
1978
Tasukenin Hashiru
1973
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Prime Minister
1991
Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
Yagyu Munenori
1982
Repast
1951
Ningen no Shōmei
1978
Japan's Longest Day
Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
1967
Tokyo Bordello
Isaburo Okura
1987
Tokyo Twilight
Seki Sekiguchi
1957
Freedom School
1951
Deep River Melody
1960Deep River Melody
Director
1960
The Barbarian and the Geisha
Governor Tamura
1958
Hijo no License
矢部
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Gômune Jindaiyu
1972
Yonjū-hassai no teikō
1956
Early Spring
Yutaka Kawai
1956
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Tokusuke Rôjin
1962
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
An Lushan
1955
Antarctica
Iwakiri Sencho
1983
The Inheritance
Senzô
1962
Kon'na watashi ja nakatta ni
1952
Prophecies of Nostradamus
Prime Minister Kuroki
1974
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Tateoka
1950
The Retreat from Kiska
Kawashima
1965
The Munekata Sisters
Ryosuke Mimura
1950
Main Line to Terror
1975
Records of loyal vassals
1962
The Militarists
Mitsumasa Yonai
1970
Sound of the Mountain
Ogata Shingo
1954
The Last War
Prime Minister Masaki
1961
Ane to imôto
Yoshirô Takaoka
1965
The Orphan Brother
Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
1961
Typhoon Over Nagasaki
1957
Little Peach
Heishiro Hirayama, the father
1958
Kanei Command Performance
1983
Akitsu Hot Springs
Mikami
1962
Dancing Girl
Yagi
1951
Drunkard's Paradise
1962
A Flame at the Pier
1962A Woman Who Convicts Men
1948
お月様には悪いけど
ヤーさん
1954
Frame of Snow
Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
1955
The Second Is a Christian
Nakatsugawa
1985
Till We Meet Again
Daisuke Kaji
1955
A Woman in the Typhoon Area
Kijima
1948
Epitaph to My Love
Kimura
1961
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Mitsuhide
1963
Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
1992
Miniature
Wakabayashi
1953
The Lady of Musashino
Eiji Ono
1951
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
With Beauty and Sorrow
Toshio Ôki
1965
Darkness at Noon
Yuji
1956
Ganpeki
1953
I Am The Magician From Hell
1961
Haha tsubaki
1950
The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959
An Eagle Eyed Lord
1961
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
Night Butterflies
Ichiro Shirasawa
1957
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960
Life of a Country Doctor
1960
Hole in One
Keikichi Shirasu
1957
Star of Hong Kong
Gentaro Sugimoto
1962
Shag
1978
Love and Duty
1954
Whirlwind Magistrate
1959
Modern People
1952
Burden of Love
Jozaburo Araki
1955
If Indeed One Loves
Gorô (segment 3)
1955
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
When It Rains, It Pours
1957
Hell's Companion
1959
Yagyu Abaretabi
1980
My Wonderful Yellow Car
The husband
1953
The Purple Hood
1958
The Sand City in Manchuria
Ishigami
1960
The White Orchid
1951
The School of Flesh
1965
The Black Current
1954The Black Current
Director
1954
Okuni and Gohei
Tomonojo
1952
A Public Benefactor
Kappei Arima
1964
Nemuri Kyōshirō
1989Honoo no hada
1951
Seven Masks of Revenge
1955
The Silent Murder
1959
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
1959
The Bastards of Lawless Town
1959
The Harbor Lights
1961
First Love Story
Shohei Ganmaru
1957
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Tachibana
1963
Musume to watashi
1962
Rumba of Passion
1950
A Geisha's Diary
Kiyomasa Tsutsui
1961
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
1959
Ano sora no hate ni hoshi wa matataku
Kojiro Yamaguchi
1962
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973
Autumn Interlude
Sotaro Fushimi, Setsuko's father
1954
Who Will Judge Me?
1951
At the Side of the Bridge 3
1963
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
1962
Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
1960
Sister with Sister
Michisuke Nishikata
1958
Oban kanketsu hen
1958
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
Councilor Matsudaira Izu
1961
Going West: to the West
Shogo Kawahara
1997
Gunrō no machi
1952
The Chieko Story
Kotaro Takamura
1957
恐怖の空中殺人
劉元章
1956
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Hôgetsu Shimamura
1947
Their Legacy
1962
Last-Ditch Glory
1961
Detective Duel
1958
Haitoku no mesu
Naoyuki Nishizawa
1961
Women of Tokyo
Shoichi Kagami
1961
Born in Sin
1962
The Cannery Boat
Matsuki
1953The Cannery Boat
Director
1953The Cannery Boat
Screenplay
1953
Ma no kisetsu: Haru no mizuumi
1956
A Roaring Trade
1962
The Yagyu Code 2: Fifty Blades
Yagyu Munenori
1990
White Beast
1950
Gendai Mushuku
Nonomiya Shin
1958
Victory and Defeat
Kimpei Minegishi
1960
日本敗れず
1954
Ninja Assassins
1960
The Wind Blows Twice
Takayoshi Michihara
1952
Tsukigata Hanpeita
Katsura Kogoro
1956
Scarface Senta
1949
Miki, the Swordman
Hirate Miki
1951
As Long as I Live
1946
Mama's Diary
1954
Ano hito wa ima
1963
The Woman Who Touched the Legs
Yasukichi Sakaza
1952
The Estuary
1961
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Hirate (Sake brewer)
1950
Summer in Eclipse
Kozo Mishima
1956
Kagebōshi
小山田鉄心
1950
Ditch
1954
Ghost Story of Youth
Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
1955
Murahachibu
1953
Roar and Earth
1957
A Meeting of Youths
Haruki Eda
1952
The Doctor
1955The Doctor
Director
1955The Doctor
Screenplay
1955
Hibari no komoriuta
1951
Striving to Live
1955
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961
Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952
Hahakogusa
Mr. Fujiki
1959Hahakogusa
Director
1959Song of Love
1950
Glory on the Summit
1962
The House Where Flowers Bloom
1963
A Young Samurai
1955
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
Masayuki Hoshina
1980
Daybreak Chorus
Shingo Koide
1963
Duel in the Sun
Attorney
1950Wagtail Tune
1951
Homecoming
1950
Blooms of Hell
1957
With Songs in My Heart
1958
Tange Sazen
1990
The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
1982
A Woman's Fight
1949
Professional Killers
Hanemon(Otowaya)
1973
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
A Second Life
1948
The Ataka Family
1952
美男お小姓 人斬り彦齋
1955
Yūkyō no mure
1948
Karatachi no hana
1954
Passion Fire
奥田金馬太郎
1952
続べらんめぇ芸者
1960Samurai Hawk
1961
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Hanemon(Otowaya)
1974
Across the Darkness
Takazawa
1959
Love's Family Tree
1961
His Pistol is Hell
1958
Police Precinct Part 14
Maruyama
1960
Yume de aritai
1962
Hakuji no hito
Zensuke, Kanako's father
1957
Netsuai sha
Murai
1961Crossing the Flames of War
1950
Kashima-nada no onna
Director
1959