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
Tokyo Story
1953
as Koichi Hirayama
Tora! Tora! Tora!
1970
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Japan's Longest Day
1967
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
1972
as Gômune Jindaiyu
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1991
as Prime Minister
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959
as Okishima
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
as Tateoka
Early Spring
1956
as Yutaka Kawai
Princess Yang Kwei-fei
1955
as An Lushan
Gung Ho
1986
as Mr. Sakamoto
Miki, the Swordman
1951
as Hirate Miki
The Retreat from Kiska
1965
as Kawashima
Night Butterflies
1957
as Ichiro Shirasawa
Antarctica
1983
as Iwakiri Sencho
Akitsu Hot Springs
1962
as Mikami
The Last War
1961
as Prime Minister Masaki
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
as Prime Minister Kuroki
Homecoming
1950
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
The Inheritance
1962
as Senzô