Name
Yoshiko Kuga
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1931-01-21
Deathday
2024-06-09 (93 years old)
Place of Birth
Ushigome, Japon
Biography
Yoshiko Kuga (久我 美子, Kuga Yoshiko, 21 January 1931 – 9 June 2024) was a Japanese actress. Kuga was born in Tokyo, Japan. In 1946, while still attending Gakushuin Junior High School, she became an actress for Toho studios. In 1947, she made her debut as one of the lead actresses in the omnibus movie Four Love Stories (四つの恋の物語, Yottsu no Koi no Monogatari). In the 1950s, she started working independently and starred in many productions of the Shochiku studios under the direction of Keisuke Kinoshita. Other important directors include Kenji Mizoguchi (The Woman in the Rumor), Yasujirō Ozu (Equinox Flower), and Tadashi Imai (An Inlet of Muddy Water). Since the 1970s, she appeared mainly on television and on stage.
Kuga was married to actor Akihiko Hirata from 1961 until his death in 1984. She died from aspiration pneumonia on 9 June 2024, at the age of 93.
Known For
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After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Con...
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A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of inte...
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In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with ...
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A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her ...
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Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, transla...
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A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that ...
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Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He...
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- 1950 Golden Beast as Kozue Takenaka
- 1951 The Idiot as Ayako
- 1948 Drunken Angel as Schoolgirl
- 1958 Equinox Flower as Fumiko Mikami
- 1959 Good Morning as Setsuko Arita
- 1954 The Woman in the Rumor as Yukiko Mabuchi
- 1955 Taira Clan Saga as Tokiko
- 1950 Portrait of Madame Yuki as Hamako Abe
- 1988 Goryokaku
- 1989 Godzilla vs. Biollante as Prime Minister's Wife
- 1960 Cruel Story of Youth as Yuki
- 1962 Umineko ga tonde
- 1957 Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Yuhime
- 1961 Zero Focus as Teiko Uhara
- 1958 Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Yuhime
- 1953 Brother and Sister as San
- 1954 Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
- 1959 The Snow Flurry as Sakura
- 1955 Beautiful Days as Sakurako
- 1956 Farewell to Dream as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
- 1954 A Billionaire as Sute Kagami
- 1958 The Eternal Rainbow as Chie
- 1954 The Garden of Women as Akiko Hayashino
- 1959 Thus Another Day as Yasuko Satô
- 1960 Spring Dreams as Kazuko Yasugi
- 1952 I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
- 1961 Daredevil in the Castle as Kobue
- 1947 Spring Awakens as Kumiko Hirobe
- 1957 Elegy of the North as Reiko Hyodo
- 1969 Samurai Banners
- 1947 Four Love Stories
- 1953 Love Letter as Michiko Kubota
- 1957 Yellow Crow as Yasuko Ashihara
- 1953 An Inlet of Muddy Water
- 1955 Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Reiko
- 1955 Mune yori mune ni as Harue Kawazoe
- 1997 Tokyo Fair Weather
- 1994 119
- 2000 As the River Flows as Yuki Shiokawa
- 1992 Okoge as Women's clothing store manager
- 1952 The Paths of Two Maidens
- 1950 Guntō nanban-sen
- 1991 Nowhere Man as Lady who walks
- 1950 Till We Meet Again as Keiko Ono
- 1950 The Angry Street
- 1949 Rinchi as Kuwako
- 1956 The Rose on His Arm as Keiko Hase
- 1962 Ballad of a Workman as Chiyo
- 1997 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as Michie Yoshiyama
- 1964 Whirlwind as Kikusato
- 1949 Akireta musumetachi
- 1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood as Suzuko Watanabe
- 1958 Beyond the Seasonal Wind
- 1993 Sky Cannot Be This Blue as Fumi Kobayshi
- 1958 Woman Unveiled
- 1949 Delinquent Girl
- 1951 Honoo no hada
- 1952 This Way, That Way
- 1951 The Bitch as Yukiko
- 1962 Mother Country
- 1956 Women in Prison as Senko Minami, prisoner
- 1957 A Case of Honor
- 1955 If Indeed One Loves as Yumiko (segment 3)
- 1961 Haitoku no mesu as Nobuko Sato
- 1949 Jakoman and Tetsu as Girl at church
- 1964 To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 as Yaeno Kurumiya
- 1953 Reunion
- 1961 Hijō no otoko
- 1961 Moonlight in the Rain
- 1954 Aku no tanoshisa as Yasuyo Uematsu
- 1969 Through Days and Months as Matsuko's Mother
- 1955 Bride in the Kitchen
- 1955 Tomorrow's Happiness as Tomiko
- 1948 My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain as Shizu
- 1954 Autumn Interlude as Setsuko Fushimi
- 1950 Tsuki no shussen as 荻原静江
- 1952 Gunrō no machi as 宇和島見奈子
- 1949 Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
- 1976 The Roads Men Travel ( 3 episodes ) as Tatsuo's mother
- 1986 Miyako no kaze ( 150 episodes ) as 竹田静
- 1967 Tabiji ( 309 episodes ) as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
- 1974 Katsu Kaishu ( 52 episodes ) as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
- 1986 Inochi ( 50 episodes ) as Takahara Chie
- 1988 長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき ( 1 episode )
- 1973 Pieces of Autumn ( 15 episodes )
