- Acting films
- 26
- Acting avg
- 7.17
- Peak run
- 1953’57
- 7+ run
- 4 films
Acting films, by TMDB rating
The career
Dot size shows audience votes. Films below the source vote floor sit on the baseline.
As an actor, films with 25+ votes
So by the numbers
Average
7.17
18 rated films
Vote weighted
7.22
bigger films count more
Median
7.3
half are better
Consistency
±0.58
rating spread
Career
45y
1947 to 1991
Total votes
3.7K
across every film
Best
8.1
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
Worst
6.9
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
Newest first
Filmography
| 1991 |  Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah | Prime Minister | 6.9 | 277 |
| 1987 | Tokyo Bordello | Isaburo Okura | · | 9 |
| 1986 |  Gung Ho | Mr. Sakamoto | 6.1 | 222 |
| 1983 |  Antarctica | Iwakiri Sencho | 7.2 | 70 |
| 1974 |  Prophecies of Nostradamus | Prime Minister Kuroki | · | 17 |
| 1972 |  Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril | Gômune Jindaiyu | 7.3 | 160 |
| 1970 |  Tora! Tora! Tora! | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto | 7.2 | 631 |
| 1967 |  Japan's Longest Day | Navy Minister Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai | 7.3 | 34 |
| 1965 |  With Beauty and Sorrow | Toshio Ôki | · | 17 |
| 1963 | Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance | Mitsuhide | · | 17 |
| 1962 |  Akitsu Hot Springs | Mikami | 6.5 | 27 |
| 1962 |  The Inheritance | Senzô | 7.3 | 33 |
| 1961 |  The Last War | Prime Minister Masaki | · | 13 |
| 1961 | A Geisha's Diary | Kiyomasa Tsutsui | · | 13 |
| 1959 |  The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | Okishima | 8.1 | 302 |
| 1958 |  The Barbarian and the Geisha | Governor Tamura | 6.1 | 46 |
| 1957 |  Tokyo Twilight | Seki Sekiguchi | 7.7 | 160 |
| 1956 |  Early Spring | Yutaka Kawai | 7.5 | 99 |
| 1955 |  Princess Yang Kwei-fei | An Lushan | 6.7 | 70 |
| 1954 |  Sound of the Mountain | Ogata Shingo | 7.4 | 71 |
Better together?
So Yamamura's regulars
- Yasujirō OzuDirector and actor · 3 films · 7.58 avg▲+0.39
- Kenji MizoguchiDirector and actor · 3 films · 6.70 avg▼−0.53
- Masaki KobayashiDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.74 avg▲+0.19
- Toshio MasudaDirector and actor · 2 films · 7.19 avg●+0.01
The number on the right is the lift: their average together minus the average of their two careers. Acting pairs here count billed roles (an actor in a director's top six, co-stars both in the top five); each duo page counts every film they made together in those roles.
Films together: Yasujirō Ozu and So Yamamura movies · Kenji Mizoguchi and So Yamamura movies · Masaki Kobayashi and So Yamamura movies · Toshio Masuda and So Yamamura movies
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