- Films
- 22
- Avg rating
- 7.43
- Peak run
- 1953’57
- 7+ run
- 6 films
Every film, by IMDb rating
The career
Dot size shows IMDb votes. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 1,000+ votes
Sō by the numbers
Average
7.43
14 rated films
Vote weighted
7.45
bigger films count more
Median
7.6
half are better
Consistency
±0.69
rating spread
Career
40y
1947 to 1986
Total votes
175K
across every film
Best
8.5
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Worst
6.3
Gung Ho
Newest first
Filmography
| 1986 |  Gung Ho | Mr. Sakamoto | 6.3 | 15,203 |
| 1983 | Antarctica | Iwakiri Sencho | 7.6 | 1,959 |
| 1974 | Prophecies of Nostradamus | Prime Minister Kuroki | · | 365 |
| 1970 |  Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto | 7.5 | 40,288 |
| 1967 | Japan's Longest Day | Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai | 7.7 | 1,223 |
| 1965 | With Beauty and Sorrow | Toshio Ôki | · | 392 |
| 1963 | Shinobi No Mono 2: Vengeance | Mitsuhide | · | 505 |
| 1962 | Akitsu Springs | Mikami | 7.2 | 1,257 |
| 1962 | The Inheritance | Senzô | 7.4 | 1,336 |
| 1961 | The Last War | Prime Minister | · | 300 |
| 1961 | Women Are Born Twice | Kiyomasa Tsutsui | · | 266 |
| 1959 |  The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | Okishima | 8.5 | 11,784 |
| 1958 | The Barbarian and the Geisha | Governor Tamura | 5.8 | 2,444 |
| 1957 | Tokyo Twilight | Seki Sekiguchi | 8.0 | 5,898 |
| 1956 | Early Spring | Yutaka Kawai | 7.7 | 4,372 |
| 1955 | Princess Yang Kwei-fei | An Lushan | 7.1 | 2,264 |
| 1954 | Sound of the Mountain | Shingo Ogata | 7.7 | 2,387 |
| 1953 |  Tokyo Story | Koichi Hirayama | 8.1 | 79,036 |
| 1951 | The Lady of Musashino | Eiji Ono | · | 816 |
| 1950 | The Munekata Sisters | Ryosuke Mimura, Setsuko's husband | 7.4 | 1,516 |
Better together?
Sō Yamamura's regulars
- Yasujirō OzuDirector and actor · 3 films · 7.73 avg▲+0.23
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector and actor · 3 films · 7.10 avg▼−0.38
- Masaki KobayashiDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.95 avg▲+0.22
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers.
Takes
On Sō Yamamura
Information courtesy of IMDb (https://www.imdb.com). Used with permission. Ratings and votes as of the latest nightly refresh.