Yoshiko Kuga
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.
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Movies (88)
As the River Flows
2000 · Yuki Shiokawa
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1997 · Michie Yoshiyama
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
119
1994
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993 · Fumi Kobayshi
Okoge
1992 · Women's clothing store manager
Nowhere Man
1991 · Lady who walks
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989 · Prime Minister's Wife
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989 · Suzuko Watanabe
Goryokaku
1988
Through Days and Months
1969 · Matsuko's Mother
Samurai Banners
1969
Ane to imôto
1965 · Yoshie Matsumoto
Whirlwind
1964 · Kikusato
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964 · Yaeno Kurumiya
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Ballad of a Workman
1962 · Chiyo
Mother Country
1962
Haitoku no mesu
1961 · Nobuko Sato
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
Zero Focus
1961 · Teiko Uhara
Hijō no otoko
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
1961 · Kobue
Cruel Story of Youth
1960 · Yuki
Spring Dreams
1960 · Kazuko Yasugi
Thus Another Day
1959 · Yasuko Satô
Good Morning
1959 · Setsuko Arita
The Snow Flurry
1959 · Sakura
The Eternal Rainbow
1958 · Chie
Equinox Flower
1958 · Fumiko Mikami
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958 · Fumie Namura
Woman Unveiled
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958 · Yuhime
Elegy of the North
1957 · Reiko Hyodo
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957 · Yuhime
Yellow Crow
1957 · Yasuko Ashihara
A Case of Honor
1957
The Rose on His Arm
1956 · Keiko Hase
Women in Prison
1956 · Senko Minami, prisoner
Farewell to Dream
1956 · Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
Mune yori mune ni
1955 · Harue Kawazoe
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955 · Reiko
Taira Clan Saga
1955 · Tokiko
Bride in the Kitchen
1955
If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Yumiko (segment 3)
Beautiful Days
1955 · Sakurako
Tomorrow's Happiness
1955 · Tomiko
Brotherly Love
1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954 · Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
A Billionaire
1954 · Sute Kagami
The Pleasures of Vice
1954 · Yasuyo Uematsu
The Woman in the Rumor
1954 · Yukiko Mabuchi
The Garden of Women
1954 · Akiko Hayashino
Autumn Interlude
1954 · Setsuko Fushimi
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Love Letter
1953 · Michiko Kubota
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
Brother and Sister
1953 · San
Reunion
1953
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1953
This Way, That Way
1952
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952
Byakuran kōran
1952
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
1952
Gunrō no machi
1952 · 宇和島見奈子
Honoo no hada
1951
Dorei no machi
1951
The Bitch
1951 · Yukiko
Enoshima Elegy
1951
The Idiot
1951 · Ayako
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
Golden Beast
1950 · Kozue Takenaka
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950 · Hamako Abe
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
The Angry Street
1950
Till We Meet Again
1950 · Keiko Ono
Tsuki no shussen
1950 · 荻原静江
Rinchi
1949 · Kuwako
Akireta musumetachi
1949
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
1949 · Girl at church
Delinquent Girl
1949
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
1948 · Shizu
Drunken Angel
1948 · Schoolgirl
Spring Awakens
1947 · Kumiko Hirobe
Four Love Stories
1947
