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.

All movies available from Sō Yamamura

Poster movie The Militarists

The Militarists

Movie

Movies unavailable from Sō Yamamura

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Movie 1952

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Movie 1970

Early Spring

Yutaka Kawai

Movie 1956

Striving to Live

Movie 1955

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Okishima

Movie 1959

Yume de aritai

Movie 1962

Police Precinct Part 14

Maruyama

Movie 1960

Gung Ho

Mr. Sakamoto

Movie 1986

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah

Prime Minister

Movie 1991

Victory and Defeat

Kimpei Minegishi

Movie 1960

Riverside Fish Market Empire

Movie 1952

Duel in the Sun

Attorney

Movie 1950

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

Hirate (Sake brewer)

Movie 1950

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Hôgetsu Shimamura

Movie 1947

Musume to watashi

Movie 1962

Who Will Judge Me?

Movie 1951

Repast

Movie 1951

Sound of the Mountain

Ogata Shingo

Movie 1954

Japan's Longest Day

Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai

Movie 1967

Antarctica

Iwakiri Sencho

Movie 1983

The Barbarian and the Geisha

Governor Tamura

Movie 1958

Tokyo Story

Koichi Hirayama

Movie 1953

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

Movie 1963

Song of Love

Movie 1950

Gonin no totsugeki tai

Movie 1961

The Estuary

Movie 1961

Tokyo Twilight

Seki Sekiguchi

Movie 1957

The Munekata Sisters

Ryosuke Mimura

Movie 1950

Hell's Companion

Movie 1959

Princess Yang Kwei Fei

An Lushan

Movie 1955

White Beast

Movie 1950

Oban kanketsu hen

Movie 1958

The Last War

Prime Minister Masaki

Movie 1961

Star of Hong Kong

Gentaro Sugimoto

Movie 1962

あの空の果てに星はまたたく

Movie 1962

The Inheritance

Senzô

Movie 1962

Kanei Command Performance

Movie 1983

Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo

Masayuki Hoshina

Movie 1980

Hole in One

Keikichi Shirasu

Movie 1957

With Beauty and Sorrow

Toshio Ôki

Movie 1965

Little Peach

Heishiro Hirayama, the father

Movie 1958

Love's Family Tree

Movie 1961

Kagebōshi

小山田鉄心

Movie 1950

Passion Fire

奥田金馬太郎

Movie 1952

Modern People

Movie 1952

Women of Tokyo

Shoichi Kagami

Movie 1961

Dancing Girl

Yagi

Movie 1951

An Inlet of Muddy Water

Movie 1953

Records of loyal vassals

Movie 1962

Murahachibu

Movie 1953

白磁の人

Movie 1957

The School of Flesh

Movie 1965

Miniature

Wakabayashi

Movie 1953

Hahakogusa

Mr. Fujiki

Movie 1959

Sara no hana no toge

Movie 1955

春のみづうみ

Movie 1956

A Roaring Trade

Movie 1962

A Public Benefactor

Kappei Arima

Movie 1964

Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan

Movie 1992

A Flame at the Pier

Movie 1962

Akitsu Hot Springs

Movie 1962

Samurai Hawk

Movie 1961

The Lady of Musashino

Eiji Ono

Movie 1951

Shag

Movie 1978

Night Butterflies

Ichiro Shirasawa

Movie 1957

The Wind Blows Twice

Movie 1952

Yūkyō no mure

Movie 1948

The 47 Masterless Samurai

Movie 1959

The Second Is a Christian

Nakatsugawa

Movie 1985

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

Movie 1960

The Cannery Boat

Matsuki

Movie 1953

With Songs in My Heart

Movie 1958

The Sand City in Manchuria

Ishigami

Movie 1960

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

Taiwan Army Chief of Staff

Movie 1962

Deep River Melody

Movie 1960

Sister with Sister

Michisuke Nishikata

Movie 1958

Detective Duel

Movie 1958

The Ataka Family

Movie 1952

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Tokusuke Rôjin

Movie 1962

Okuni and Gohei

Tomonojo

Movie 1952

The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku

Councilor Matsudaira Izu

Movie 1961

The Ditch

Movie 1954

Magistrate Toyama 3: The Whirlwind Magistrate

Movie 1959

The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4

Movie 1961

Nemuri Kyōshirō

Movie 1989

Life of a Country Doctor

Movie 1960

The Retreat from Kiska

Kawashima

Movie 1965

Ninja Assassins

Movie 1960

A Woman in the Typhoon Area

Kijima

Movie 1948

The Black Current

Movie 1954

Portrait of Madame Yuki

Tateoka

Movie 1950

A Geisha's Diary

Kiyomasa Tsutsui

Movie 1961

Burden of Love

Jozaburo Araki

Movie 1955

Main Line to Terror

Movie 1975

Professional Killers

Hanemon(Otowaya)

Movie 1973

Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry

Hanemon(Otowaya)

Movie 1973

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night

Hanemon(Otowaya)

Movie 1974

Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Movie 1957

Epitaph to My Love

Kimura

Movie 1961

When It Rains, It Pours

Movie 1957

The Purple Hood

Movie 1958

Drunkard's Paradise

Movie 1962

The Orphan Brother

Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)

Movie 1961

Seven Masks of Revenge

Movie 1955

Darkness at Noon

Yuji

Movie 1956

Jigoku bana

Movie 1957

The Harbor Lights

Movie 1961

Born in Sin

Movie 1962

The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S

Movie 1982

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

Movie 1959

Miki, the Swordman

Hirate Miki

Movie 1951

Men in a Rough Town

Movie 1959

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

Tachibana

Movie 1963

Glory on the Summit

Movie 1962

Till We Meet Again

Daisuke Kaji

Movie 1955

The Woman Who Touched the Legs

Yasukichi Sakaza

Movie 1952

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Gômune Jindaiyu

Movie 1972

Ghost Story of Youth

Tetsuya, father of Chiharu

Movie 1955

Honoo no hada

Movie 1951

Senka o koete

Movie 1950

Tange Sazen

Movie 1990

Hibari no komoriuta

Movie 1951

Their Legacy

Movie 1962

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Prime Minister Kuroki

Movie 1974

Kirare no Senta

Movie 1949

The White Orchid

Movie 1951

As Long as I Live

Movie 1946

Love and Duty

Movie 1954

My Wonderful Yellow Car

The husband

Movie 1953

A Second Life

Movie 1948

Ai Sureba Koso

Gorô (segment 3)

Movie 1955

Tsukigata Hanpeita

Katsura Kogoro

Movie 1956

Rumba of Passion

Movie 1950

Hell's Juggler

Movie 1961

An Eagle Eyed Lord

Movie 1961

Haitoku no mesu

Naoyuki Nishizawa

Movie 1961

Roar and Earth

Movie 1957

Homecoming

Movie 1950

Across the Darkness

Takazawa

Movie 1959

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

Movie 1959

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

Movie 1950

Ganpeki

Movie 1953

A Young Samurai

Movie 1955

Tv series unavailable from Sō Yamamura

Haru no Sakamichi

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tv 1971

ザ・ハングマン

Tv 1980

Ningen no Shōmei

Tv 1978

Professional Killers

Hanemon Otowaya

Tv 1972

Pearl

Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)

Tv 1978

The Yagyu Conspiracy

Yagyu Munenori

Tv 1978

Yagyu's Secret Quest

Yagyu Munenori

Tv 1980

Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest

Yagyu Munenori

Tv 1982