Birthday
1910/02/24
Day of death
2000/05/26 (90 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Tenri, Japan
Also know as
Hirosada Koga, 山村聡, 山村聰, Со Ямамура, 山村聪, Soh Yamamura
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.
(1952) Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
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(1970) Tora! Tora! Tora!
as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
(1956) Early Spring
as Yutaka Kawai
(1955) Striving to Live
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(1959) The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as Okishima
(1962) Yume de aritai
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(1960) Police Precinct Part 14
as Maruyama
(1986) Gung Ho
as Mr. Sakamoto
(1991) Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
as Prime Minister
(1960) Victory and Defeat
as Kimpei Minegishi
(1952) Riverside Fish Market Empire
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(1950) Duel in the Sun
as Attorney
(1950) Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
as Hirate (Sake brewer)
(1947) The Love of the Actress Sumako
as Hôgetsu Shimamura
(1962) Musume to watashi
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(1951) Who Will Judge Me?
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(1951) Repast
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(1954) Sound of the Mountain
as Ogata Shingo
(1967) Japan's Longest Day
as Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai
(1983) Antarctica
as Iwakiri Sencho
(1958) The Barbarian and the Geisha
as Governor Tamura
(1953) Tokyo Story
as Koichi Hirayama
(1963) Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
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(1950) Song of Love
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(1961) Gonin no totsugeki tai
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(1961) The Estuary
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(1957) Tokyo Twilight
as Seki Sekiguchi
(1950) The Munekata Sisters
as Ryosuke Mimura
(1959) Hell's Companion
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(1955) Princess Yang Kwei Fei
as An Lushan
(1950) White Beast
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(1958) Oban kanketsu hen
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(1961) The Last War
as Prime Minister Masaki
(1962) Star of Hong Kong
as Gentaro Sugimoto
(1962) あの空の果てに星はまたたく
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(1962) The Inheritance
as Senzô
(1983) Kanei Command Performance
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(1980) Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
as Masayuki Hoshina
(1957) Hole in One
as Keikichi Shirasu
(1965) With Beauty and Sorrow
as Toshio Ôki
(1958) Little Peach
as Heishiro Hirayama, the father
(1961) Love's Family Tree
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(1950) Kagebōshi
as 小山田鉄心
(1952) Passion Fire
as 奥田金馬太郎
(1952) Modern People
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(1961) Women of Tokyo
as Shoichi Kagami
(1951) Dancing Girl
as Yagi
(1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water
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(1962) Records of loyal vassals
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(1953) Murahachibu
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(1957) 白磁の人
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(1965) The School of Flesh
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(1953) Miniature
as Wakabayashi
(1955) Sara no hana no toge
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(1959) Hahakogusa
as Mr. Fujiki
(1956) 春のみづうみ
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(1962) A Roaring Trade
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(1964) A Public Benefactor
as Kappei Arima
(1992) Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
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(1962) A Flame at the Pier
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(1962) Akitsu Hot Springs
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(1961) Samurai Hawk
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(1951) The Lady of Musashino
as Eiji Ono
(1978) Shag
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(1957) Night Butterflies
as Ichiro Shirasawa
(1952) The Wind Blows Twice
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(1948) Yūkyō no mure
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(1959) The 47 Masterless Samurai
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(1985) The Second Is a Christian
as Nakatsugawa
(1960) The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
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(1953) The Cannery Boat
as Matsuki
(1970) The Militarists
as Mitsumasa Yonai
(1958) With Songs in My Heart
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(1960) The Sand City in Manchuria
as Ishigami
(1962) The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
as Taiwan Army Chief of Staff
(1960) Deep River Melody
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(1958) Sister with Sister
as Michisuke Nishikata
(1958) Detective Duel
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(1952) The Ataka Family
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(1962) Diary of a Mad Old Man
as Tokusuke Rôjin
(1952) Okuni and Gohei
as Tomonojo
(1961) The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
as Councilor Matsudaira Izu
(1954) The Ditch
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(1959) Whirlwind Magistrate
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(1961) The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
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(1989) Nemuri Kyōshirō
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(1960) Life of a Country Doctor
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(1965) The Retreat from Kiska
as Kawashima
(1960) Ninja Assassins
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(1948) A Woman in the Typhoon Area
as Kijima
(1954) The Black Current
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(1950) Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Tateoka
(1961) A Geisha's Diary
as Kiyomasa Tsutsui
(1955) Burden of Love
as Jozaburo Araki
(1975) Main Line to Terror
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(1973) Professional Killers
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
(1973) Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
(1974) Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as Hanemon(Otowaya)
(1957) Typhoon Over Nagasaki
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(1961) Epitaph to My Love
as Kimura
(1957) When It Rains, It Pours
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(1958) The Purple Hood
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(1962) Drunkard's Paradise
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(1961) The Orphan Brother
as Fujiwara No Morozane (voice)
(1955) Seven Masks of Revenge
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(1956) Darkness at Noon
as Yuji
(1957) Jigoku bana
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(1961) The Harbor Lights
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(1962) Born in Sin
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(1982) The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
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(1959) Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
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(1951) Miki, the Swordman
as Hirate Miki
(1959) Men in a Rough Town
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(1963) Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
as Tachibana
(1962) Glory on the Summit
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(1955) Till We Meet Again
as Daisuke Kaji
(1952) The Woman Who Touched the Legs
as Yasukichi Sakaza
(1972) Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
as Gômune Jindaiyu
(1955) Ghost Story of Youth
as Tetsuya, father of Chiharu
(1951) Honoo no hada
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(1950) Senka o koete
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(1990) Tange Sazen
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(1951) Hibari no komoriuta
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(1962) Their Legacy
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(1974) Prophecies of Nostradamus
as Prime Minister Kuroki
(1949) Kirare no Senta
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(1951) The White Orchid
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(1946) As Long as I Live
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(1954) Love and Duty
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(1953) My Wonderful Yellow Car
as The husband
(1948) A Second Life
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(1955) Ai Sureba Koso
as Gorô (segment 3)
(1956) Tsukigata Hanpeita
as Katsura Kogoro
(1950) Rumba of Passion
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(1961) Hell's Juggler
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(1961) An Eagle Eyed Lord
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(1961) Haitoku no mesu
as Naoyuki Nishizawa
(1957) Roar and Earth
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(1950) Homecoming
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(1959) Across the Darkness
as Takazawa
(1959) Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
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(1950) Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
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(1953) Ganpeki
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(1955) A Young Samurai
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(1971) Haru no Sakamichi
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
(1980) ザ・ハングマン
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(1978) Ningen no Shōmei
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(1972) Professional Killers
as Hanemon Otowaya
(1978) Pearl
as Admiral Nagumo, commander of Japanese attack force (uncredited)
(1980) Yagyu's Secret Quest
as Yagyu Munenori
(1978) The Yagyu Conspiracy
as Yagyu Munenori
(1982) Yagyu Jubei Secret Quest
as Yagyu Munenori