So Yamamura
Known for Acting
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.
Filmography
Japan's Longest Day
1967
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
Tokyo Story
1953
as Koichi Hirayama
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
as Okishima
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
as Tateoka
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
as Prime Minister
Tokyo Twilight
1957
as Seki Sekiguchi
The Ataka Family
1952
The Cannery Boat
1953
as Matsuki
The Cannery Boat
1953
Director
The Cannery Boat
1953
Screenplay
Early Spring
1956
as Yutaka Kawai
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
as Prime Minister Kuroki
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
as Gômune Jindaiyu
The Orphan Brother
1961
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
Main Line to Terror
1975
Till We Meet Again
1955
as Daisuke Kaji
The Militarists
1970
as Mitsumasa Yonai
Antarctica
1983
as Iwakiri Sencho
The Second Is a Christian
1985
as Nakatsugawa