Sô Yamamura
Bio: Versatile Japanese character actor So Yamamura made his first film appearance in 1946. Six years later he launched the directing phase of his career with the Eisenstein-influenced The Crab Canning Ship. In 1958, he made the first of a handful of English-language appearances in John Huston's Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). So Yamamura's later screen assignments… More Bio: Versatile Japanese character actor So Yamamura made his first film appearance in 1946. Six years later he launched the directing phase of his career with the Eisenstein-influenced The Crab Canning Ship. In 1958, he made the first of a handful of English-language appearances in John Huston's Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). So Yamamura's later screen assignments include the roles of Admiral Yamamoto in the Japanese-American Pearl Harbor re-enactment Tora Tora Tora (1970) and taciturn auto executive Sakamoto in director Ron Howard's 1985 comedy Gung Ho. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Tora Tora Tora
Tokyo Story
Gung Ho
Japan's Longest Day
The Barbarian And The Geisha
Filmography
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Gung Ho (1986)
- Sakamoto
- 35%
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Antarctica (Nankyoku Monogatari) (1983)
- Actor
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Early Spring (Soshun) (1974)
- Actor
- 100%
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
- Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto
- 65%
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Japan's Longest Day (1967)
- Navy Minister
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