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Occupation
  
Actor

Years active
  
1936-1991


Name
  
So Yamamura

Role
  
Actor

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Born
  
24 February 1910 (
1910-02-24
)
Tenri, Japan

Died
  
May 26, 2000, Nakano, Tokyo, Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan

Spouse
  
Yuriko Yamamura (m. ?–2000)

Awards
  
Japan Academy Prize for Special Award from the Chairman

Movies
  
Tora! Tora! Tora!, Tokyo Story, Japan's Longest Day, Gung Ho, Antarctica

Similar People
  
Chishu Ryu, Sugimara Haruko, Setsuko Hara, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kyoko Kagawa

So 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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So Yamamura So Yamamura as Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku in the 1970 movie Tora

Television

  • Haru no Sakamichi (1971) - Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • Hissatsu Shikakenin (1972) as Otowaya
  • Tasukenin Hashiru (1973-74) as Seibei
  • The Yagyu Conspiracy (1978)
  • Akō Rōshi (1979 TV series)(1979) as Chisaka Hyoubu
  • Hattori Hanzō:Kage no Gundan (1980) as Hoshina Masayuki

    • Honours

  • Medal with Purple Ribbon (1977)
  • Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (1983)

    • References

    So Yamamura Wikipedia
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