So Yamamura
Acting
Biography
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.
Born: February 24, 1910
Place of Birth: Tenri, Nara, Japan
Known For
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
ザ・ハングマン
Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
The sequel to The Yagyu Conspiracy picks up when Yagyu Jubei (Sonny Chiba) has a falling out with the Shogun, and sets out on his own as a wanted man. Featuring the martial art skills of Sue Shiomi (Sister Streetfighter) as she is on official patrol with Jubei watching over her, making sure that he gets to fight in each episode as well. This is one of the best and most exciting television series to ever hit the airwaves.
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?
The Retreat from Kiska
In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most daring and unlikely evacuations in military history. This is that story.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.
Miniature
Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope in the process. No matter how hard she tries, she just can't escape her sad fate.
The Cannery Boat
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
Filmography
as Shogo Kawahara
as Prime Minister
as Isaburo Okura
as Mr. Sakamoto
as Nakatsugawa
as Iwakiri Sencho
as Yagyu Munenori
as Yagyu Munenori
as Masayuki Hoshina
as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
as Yagyu Munenori
as Prime Minister Kuroki
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
as 矢部
as Gômune Jindaiyu
as Hanemon Otowaya
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Mitsumasa Yonai
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
as Kawashima
as Toshio Ôki
as Kappei Arima
as Shingo Koide
as Tachibana
as Tokusuke Rôjin
as Gentaro Sugimoto
as Mikami
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
as Senzô
as Prime Minister Masaki
as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
as Murai
as Naoyuki Nishizawa
as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
as Kimura
as Shoichi Kagami
as Ishigami
as Maruyama
as Kimpei Minegishi
as Takazawa
as Mr. Fujiki
as Okishima
as Michisuke Nishikata
as Governor Tamura
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
as Keikichi Shirasu
as Seki Sekiguchi
as Ichiro Shirasawa
as 劉元章
as Katsura Kogoro
as Kozo Mishima
as Yuji
as Yutaka Kawai
as Gorô (segment 3)
as Daisuke Kaji
as An Lushan
as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
as Amagiri (Yūko’s grandfather)
as Jozaburo Araki
as ヤーさん
as Ogata Shingo
as Koichi Hirayama
as Matsuki
as Wakabayashi
as The husband
as 奥田金馬太郎
as Yasukichi Sakaza
as Tomonojo
as Hirate Miki
as Eiji Ono
as Yagi
as Hirate (Sake brewer)
as Tateoka
as Ryosuke Mimura
as Attorney
as 小山田鉄心
as Kijima
as Hôgetsu Shimamura