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Sô Yamamura

Highest Rated: 100% Tokyo Twilight (1957)

Lowest Rated: 33% Gung Ho (1986)

Birthday: Feb 24, 1910

Birthplace: Tenri, Japan

So Yamamura was an actor who had a successful Hollywood career. Yamamura found his beginnings in film with roles in "The Love of Sumako the Actress" (1947), "The Princess Yang Kwei Fei" (1955) with Machiko Kyo and the Tatsuya Nakadai drama "The Human Condition" (1959). Yamamura began to focus on film after appearing in "The Human Condition 2" (1961), the Tatsuya Nakadai drama "The Human Condition 3" (1961) and the Ryu Chishu historical drama "Nihon no Ichiban Nagai Hi" (1967). He also appeared in "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (1970) and the dramedy "Gung Ho" (1986) with Michael Keaton. Later in his career, Yamamura acted in "Tokyo Story" (1990). Yamamura passed away in May 2000 at the age of 90.

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Highest rated movies

100% 92% Tokyo Twilight
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57% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora!
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56% 64% Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
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40% 43% The Barbarian and the Geisha
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33% 46% Gung Ho
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Leaves of Night
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Musume no Naka no Musume
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A Geisha's Diary
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An Affair at Akitsu
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Sô Yamamura

TOKYO STORY, (aka TOKYO MONOGATARI), Haruko Sugimura, Chishu Ryu, So Yamamura, Shiro Osaka, Setsuko Hara, Kyoko Kagawa, 1953. TORA! TORA! TORA!, Soh Yamamura (center), 1970, TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved, TORA! TORA! TORA!, Soh Yamamura (sitting), 1970, TM and Copyright © 20th Century Fox Film Corp. All rights reserved. TOKYO STORY, (aka TOKYO MONOGATARI), back row: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake; front row: Mitsuhiro Mori, Chieko Higashiyama, Chishu Ryu, Zen Murase, 1953 TOKYO STORY, (aka TOKYO MONOGATARI), back row: Setsuko Hara, Haruko Sugimura, So Yamamura, Kuniko Miyake; front row: Mitsuhiro Mori, Chieko Higashiyama, Chishu Ryu, Zen Murase, 1953. View more photos

Filmography

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56% 64% Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah Prime Minister (Character) - 1991
33% 46% Gung Ho Mr. Sakamoto (Character) $36.4M 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Second Is a Christian Unknown (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Last Days of Planet Earth Prime Minister (Character) - 1975
57% 81% Tora! Tora! Tora! Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto (Character) - 1970
No Score Yet 79% Japan's Longest Day Unknown (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Retreat From Kiska Kawashima (Character) - 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet With Beauty and Sadness Unknown (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance Unknown (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Littlest Warrior Fujiwara No Morozane (Voice) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Born in Sin Unknown (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet An Affair at Akitsu Mikami (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Inheritance Senzô (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Geisha's Diary Unknown (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zoku Beran Me-e Geisha Unknown (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet No Score Yet Furyu Fukagawa Director - 1960
40% 43% The Barbarian and the Geisha Governor Tamura (Character) - 1958
No Score Yet No Score Yet Musume no Naka no Musume Unknown (Character) - 1958
100% 92% Tokyo Twilight Seki Sekiguchi (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Leaves of Night Ichiro Shirosawa (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet When It Rains, It Pours Unknown (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet No Score Yet Typhoon Over Nagasaki Unknown (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 76% Princess Yang Kwei-fei An Lushan (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ghost Story of Youth Tetsuya (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet Striving to Live Unknown (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Gutter Unknown (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Black Current Director - 1954
No Score Yet 94% Sound of the Mountain Ogata Shingo (Character) - 1954
100% 93% Tokyo Story Koichi Hirayama (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet No Score Yet Epitome Wakabayashi (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 95% The Lady of Musashino Eiji Ono (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 89% The Munekata Sisters Ryosuke Mimura (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 71% Portrait of Madame Yuki Tateoka (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 50% The Love of Sumako the Actress Hôgetsu Shimamura (Character) - 1947