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.
Known For
Credits
- 2000 · As the River Flows as Yuki Shiokawa
- 1997 · The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as Michie Yoshiyama
- 1997 · Tokyo Fair Weather as
- 1994 · 119 as
- 1993 · Sky Cannot Be This Blue as Fumi Kobayshi
- 1992 · Okoge as Women's clothing store manager
- 1991 · Nowhere Man as Lady who walks
- 1989 · Godzilla vs. Biollante as Prime Minister's Wife
- 1989 · Four Days of Snow and Blood as Suzuko Watanabe
- 1988 · Goryokaku as
- 1988 · 長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき as
- 1986 · Miyako no kaze as 竹田静
- 1986 · Inochi as Takahara Chie
- 1976 · The Roads Men Travel as Tatsuo's mother
- 1974 · Katsu Kaishu as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
- 1973 · Pieces of Autumn as
- 1969 · Samurai Banners as
- 1967 · Tabiji as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
- 1964 · Whirlwind as Kikusato
- 1964 · To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 as Yaeno Kurumiya
- 1962 · Umineko ga tonde as
- 1962 · Ballad of a Workman as Chiyo
- 1962 · Mother Country as
- 1961 · Haitoku no mesu as Nobuko Sato
- 1961 · Zero Focus as Teiko Uhara
- 1961 · Daredevil in the Castle as Kobue
- 1960 · Cruel Story of Youth as Yuki
- 1960 · Spring Dreams as Kazuko Yasugi
- 1959 · Thus Another Day as Yasuko Satô
- 1959 · Good Morning as Setsuko Arita
- 1959 · The Snow Flurry as Sakura
- 1958 · The Eternal Rainbow as Chie
- 1958 · Equinox Flower as Fumiko Mikami
- 1958 · Beyond the Seasonal Wind as
- 1958 · Woman Unveiled as
- 1958 · Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Yuhime
- 1957 · Elegy of the North as Reiko Hyodo
- 1957 · Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Yuhime
- 1957 · Yellow Crow as Yasuko Ashihara
- 1957 · A Case of Honor as
- 1956 · The Rose on His Arm as Keiko Hase
- 1956 · Women in Prison as Senko Minami, prisoner
- 1956 · Farewell to Dream as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
- 1955 · Mune yori mune ni as Harue Kawazoe
- 1955 · Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Reiko
- 1955 · Taira Clan Saga as Tokiko
- 1955 · Ai Sureba Koso as Yumiko (segment 3)
- 1955 · Beautiful Days as
- 1954 · Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
- 1954 · A Billionaire as Sute Kagami
- 1954 · The Woman in the Rumor as Yukiko Mabuchi
- 1954 · The Garden of Women as Akiko Hayashino
- 1953 · Love Letter as Michiko Kubota
- 1953 · An Inlet of Muddy Water as
- 1953 · Brother and Sister as San
- 1953 · Reunion as
- 1952 · This Way, That Way as
- 1952 · The Paths of Two Maidens as
- 1952 · I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki as
- 1951 · Honoo no hada as
- 1951 · The Bitch as Yukiko
- 1951 · The Idiot as Ayako
- 1950 · Oogonju as Kozue Takenaka
- 1950 · Portrait of Madame Yuki as Hamako Abe
- 1950 · Guntō nanban-sen as
- 1950 · The Angry Street as
- 1950 · Till We Meet Again as Keiko Ono
- 1949 · Rinchi as Kuwako
- 1949 · Akireta musumetachi as
- 1949 · Jakoman and Tetsu as Girl at church
- 1949 · Delinquent Girl as
- 1948 · Drunken Angel as Schoolgirl
- 1947 · Spring Awakens as Kumiko Hirobe
- 1947 · Four Love Stories as