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Sō Yamamura

Name in Native Language: "山村 聰" (Japanese/JA)
Film Director / Actor | * 02/24/1910 († 90, 05/26/2000) | Tenri (Japan)
Sō Yamamura (山村聰, Yamamura Sō, 24 February 1910 – 26 May 2000), sometimes credited as Satoshi Yamamura, was a Japanese actor and film director. ()

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.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | Action

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When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultur ...

Gung Ho

PG-13

1986 | 3.1/5 | 1h 51min
Comedy, Drama
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A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing Akiyama JNR president was found dead. ...

The Black Current

Certification unknown

1954 | 1h 53min
Drama
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead ...

Tora! Tora! Tora!

G

1970 | 3.6/5 | 2h 24min
Drama, History, War
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An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman. ...

Sound of the Mountain

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1954 | 3.7/5 | 1h 36min
Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Sō Yamamura

Medal With Purple Ribbon Blue Ribbon Award for Best Newcomer Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actor Mainichi Film Award for Best Actor
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Movies with Sō Yamamura as Actor(116)

as Prime Minister1991 Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
1989 Nemuri Kyōshirō
as Mr. Sakamoto1986 Gung Ho
as Nakatsugawa1985 The Second Is a Christian
as Iwakiri Sencho1983 Antarctica
as Masayuki Hoshina1980 Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
1978 Shag
1975 Main Line to Terror
as Prime Minister Kuroki1974 Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Hanemon(Otowaya)1974 Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Hanemon(Otowaya)1973 Professional Killers
as Hanemon(Otowaya)1973 Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Gômune Jindaiyu1972 Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Mitsumasa Yonai1970 The Militarists
as Vice-Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto1970 Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai1967 Japan's Longest Day
as Toshio Ôki1965 With Beauty and Sorrow
as Kawashima1965 The Retreat from Kiska
as Kappei Arima1964 A Public Benefactor
as Tachibana1963 Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963 Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
as Senzô1962 The Inheritance
1962 Akitsu Springs
1962 Born in Sin
1962 A Flame at the Pier
1962 Glory on the Summit
1962 Drunkard's Paradise
as Tokusuke Rôjin1962 Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff1962 The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
1962 Their Legacy
1962 Star of Hong Kong
1961 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
1961 五人の突撃隊
1961 The Estuary
as Shoichi Kagami1961 Women of Tokyo
as Kimura1961 Epitaph to My Love
1961 An Eagle Eyed Lord
as Kiyomasa Tsutsui1961 A Geisha's Diary
1961 The Harbor Lights
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)1961 The Orphan Brother
1961 Hell's Juggler
1961 Samurai Hawk
as Naoyuki Nishizawa1961 Haitoku no mesu
as Prime Minister1961 The Last War
1961 Love's Family Tree
as Councilor Matsudaira Izu1961 The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
1960 Life of a Country Doctor
1960 The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
1960 Bored Hatamoto: Riddle of The Assassin's Group
as Ishigami1960 The Sand City in Manchuria
1959 Jan Arima no shûgeki
1959 Magistrate Toyama 3: The Whirlwind Magistrate
1959 The 47 Masterless Samurai
1959 Hell's Companion
as Okishima1959 The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 Men in a Rough Town
as Takazawa1959 Across the Darkness
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father1958 Little Peach
1958 With Songs in My Heart
1958 Detective Duel
1958 The Purple Hooded Man
as Michisuke Nishikata1958 Sister with Sister
1958 Oban kanketsu hen
as Governor Tamura1958 The Barbarian and the Geisha
1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki
as Keikichi Shirasu1957 Hole in One
1957 When It Rains, It Pours
as Ichiro Shirasawa1957 Night Butterflies
as Seki Sekiguchi1957 Tokyo Twilight
1957 Jigoku bana
1957 Roar and Earth
as Katsura Kogoro1956 Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Yuji1956 Darkness at Noon
as Yutaka Kawai1956 Early Spring
as Gorô (segment 3)1955 Ai Sureba Koso
as Daisuke Kaji1955 Till We Meet Again
as Jozaburo Araki1955 Burden of Love
as An Lushan1955 Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu1955 Ghost Story of Youth
1955 Seven Masks of Revenge
1954 The Ditch
as Ogata Shingo1954 Sound of the Mountain
1954 Love and Duty
1954 The Black Current
as Wakabayashi1953 Miniature
as Matsuki1953 The Cannery Boat
1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water
as The husband1953 My Wonderful Yellow Car
as Koichi Hirayama1953 Tokyo Story
1952 Kin no tamago: Golden girl
as Yasukichi Sakaza1952 The Woman Who Touched the Legs
1952 The Ataka Family
1952 Riverside Fish Market Empire
1952 Modern People
as Tomonojo1952 Okuni and Gohei
1951 Hibari no komoriuta
1951 Repast
as Eiji Ono1951 The Lady of Musashino
as Yagi1951 Dancing Girl
1951 The White Orchid
as Hirate Miki1951 Miki, the Swordman
1951 Who Will Judge Me?
as Hirate (Sake brewer)1950 Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
1950 Song of Love
1950 Senka o koete
as Ryosuke Mimura, Setsuko's husband1950 The Munekata Sisters
as Tateoka1950 Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950 Homecoming
1950 Rumba of Passion
as Attorney1950 Duel in the Sun
1950 White Beast
1949 Kirare no Senta
1948 A Second Life
as Kijima1948 A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Hôgetsu Shimamura1947 The Love of the Actress Sumako
1946 As Long as I Live

TV Shows/Series with Sō Yamamura as Actor(6)

as Yagyu Munenori1982 Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
as Yagyu Munenori1980 Yagyu's Secret Quest
as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)1978 Pearl
as Yagyu Munenori1978 The Yagyu Conspiracy
as Hanemon Otowaya1972 Professional Killers
as Tokugawa Ieyasu1971 Haru no Sakamichi

Movies with Sō Yamamura as Crew(3)

Directing/Director1954 The Black Current
Directing/Director1953 The Cannery Boat
Writing/Screenplay1953 The Cannery Boat

Full Name: Sō Yamamura
Citizenship: Japan
Born: Thursday, 02/24 1910 (February) in Tenri (Japan)
Died: Friday, 05/26 2000 (May) in Tokyo (aged: 90)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Dog)
Languages: Japanese (JA)
Educated at: University of Tokyo
Father: Chitose Koga
Other names for Sō Yamamura (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"So Yamamura"
"Hirosada Koga"
"山村聡"
"山村聰"
"Со Ямамура"
"山村聪"
"古賀 寛定"
"やまむら そう" (Kana/Japanese)
Sō Yamamura frequently works together with these people:
Eijirō Tōno (15x, Actor)
Kaneto Shindō (12x, Crew)
Eijirō Yanagi (12x, Actor)
Akira Ifukube (12x, Crew)
Tomoyuki Tanaka (12x, Crew)
Ken Takakura (11x, Actor)
Mariko Okada (11x, Actress)
Taiji Tonoyama (11x, Actor)
Eitarō Ozawa (11x, Actor)
Sadako Sawamura (10x, Actress)
Tōru Abe (10x, Actor)
Shin'ichi Chiba (3x, Actor)
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