Birthday: 1910-02-24
Place of Birth: Tenri, Nara, Japan
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.
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to ...
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
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A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship...
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Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee...
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After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
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An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, ...
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After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Y...
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The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outsp...
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An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight...
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Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expeditio...
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The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to v...
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[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
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In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact...
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In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation fac...
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Ushinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of Bun...
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A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superp...
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Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an en...
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A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabout...
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During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or...
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The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expe...
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A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the ...
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When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel ...
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Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitor...
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On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. Hi...
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A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company...
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The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved anot...
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A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about th...
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In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of ...
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A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections...
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A love story about a former noblewoman who greedily enjoys love after breaking up with her unhappy m...
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Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha...
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This movie attempts to present the reality of doctorless villages to society at large, while focusin...
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The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness....
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The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for alm...
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A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama...
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Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal s...
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1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the governmen...
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Set in post-war Japan, The Lady of Musashino tells the story of Michiko, a disillusioned young woman...
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Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ai...
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Kanae, who broke up with her husband and moved to her uncle's house, met two men when her father, a ...
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While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there bee...
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The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different me...
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Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant bus...
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Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppress...
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Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of...
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When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5....
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A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's ...
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Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker....
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A friendly rivalry turns into romance for Yukiko, an elite female detective, and a handsome private ...
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Soichi Ataka is the eldest son of Ataka family. Although mentally challenged, he's a person with a g...
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Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers th...
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A high-born woman named Okuni travels around the country with Gohei, a samurai retainer who is in se...
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A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied hi...
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Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. ...
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One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan ...
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A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take ...
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Kyoshiro rescues Shizu who was being abused by her husband, even since she had been violated by the ...
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A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
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In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When...
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Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....
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Four unlucky pirates head to a weather tracking station set on a remote island with the intention of...
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A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a ...
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A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath...
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A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she stru...
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The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a prog...
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Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart a...
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Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w...
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Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder....
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An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they reali...
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Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love bot...
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Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When h...
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Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now...
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A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving beh...
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The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a...
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After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his il...
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A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, t...
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A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Jiro Sone sacrifices all comfort to devote himself to research. Young housewife Yachiyo is disappoin...
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A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her fr...
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Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, ...
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A melodrama of the ups and downs of youth, based on Bunroku Shishi’s popular novel. Chiharu, a balle...
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One of Japan's favorite sword stars, Fujita Makoto, returns as the legendary Tange Sazen, the one-ey...
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Heitaro, who had served his firm loyally for 30 years, reaches the retirement age. He has four unmar...
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Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that th...
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A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo...
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Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels ...
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The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" ...
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During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a c...
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A former naval officer returns to Japan after the Second World War ends, encounters the former mistr...
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A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed dur...
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This work depicts the poet Hakushu Kitahara's life, full of poetic sentiment, from his childhood to ...
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In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines,...
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Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with hi...
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"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defe...
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Sakuma Ryu, who runs a liquor store alone in downtown Tokyo, ends up living with his eldest son and ...
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Yumiko, the president's daughter, meets a suspicious woman after her wedding ceremony with Tamio....
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In a small town, Tomoko, a new bus conductor, works hard to prove herself. She crosses paths with Sa...
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During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in lo...
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A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest...
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