Yoshiko Kuga
Born: 1931-01-21 in Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Died: 2024-06-09
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2007
- Heroic Age ... (Mechanical Designer)
2000
- As the River Flows as Yuki Shiokawa
1997
- Tokyo Fair Weather
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time as Michie Yoshiyama
1994
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
- Four Days of Snow and Blood as Suzuko Watanabe
1986
- Inochi as Takahara Chie
- Miyako no kaze as 竹田静
1976
- The Roads Men Travel as Tatsuo's mother
1974
- Katsu Kaishu as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
1973
1969
1967
- Tabiji as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
1964
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 as Yaeno Kurumiya
- Whirlwind as Kikusato
1962
1961
- Zero Focus as Teiko Uhara
- Daredevil in the Castle as Kobue
- Moonlight in the Rain
- Haitoku no mesu as Nobuko Sato
- Hijō no otoko
1960
- Cruel Story of Youth as Yuki
- Spring Dreams as Kazuko Yasugi
1959
- The Snow Flurry as Sakura
- Thus Another Day as Yasuko Satô
- Good Morning as Setsuko Arita
1958
- The Eternal Rainbow as Chie
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II as Yuhime
- Woman Unveiled
- Beyond the Seasonal Wind
- Equinox Flower as Fumiko Mikami
1957
- Yellow Crow as Yasuko Ashihara
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls as Yuhime
- A Case of Honor
- Elegy of the North as Reiko Hyodo
1956
- Women in Prison as Senko Minami, prisoner
- Farewell to Dream as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
- The Rose on His Arm as Keiko Hase
1955
- Taira Clan Saga as Tokiko
- Beautiful Days
- Ai Sureba Koso as Yumiko (segment 3)
- Mune yori mune ni as Harue Kawazoe
- Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree as Reiko
1954
- The Woman in the Rumor as Yukiko Mabuchi
- The Garden of Women as Akiko Hayashino
- Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
- A Billionaire as Sute Kagami
- Aku no tanoshisa as Yasuyo Uematsu
1953
- An Inlet of Muddy Water
- Brother and Sister as San
- Love Letter as Michiko Kubota
- Reunion
1951
- The Idiot as Ayako
- Honoo no hada
- The Bitch as Yukiko
1950
- Portrait of Madame Yuki as Hamako Abe
- The Angry Street
- Till We Meet Again as Keiko Ono
- Guntō nanban-sen
- Oogonju as Kozue Takenaka
1949
- Rinchi as Kuwako
- Jakoman and Tetsu as Girl at church
- Delinquent Girl
- Akireta musumetachi
1948
- Drunken Angel as Schoolgirl
1947
- Four Love Stories
- Spring Awakens as Kumiko Hirobe