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Yoshiko Kuga
Born · January 21, 1931
Died · June 9, 2024 (93 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
Bio
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.
As the River Flows
Yuki Shiokawa
0.0
2000
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Michie Yoshiyama
5.0
1997
Tokyo Fair Weather
6.8
1997
119
6.0
1994
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Fumi Kobayshi
0.0
1993
Okoge
Women's clothing store manager
6.3
1992
Nowhere Man
Lady who walks
5.2
1991
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Prime Minister's Wife
7.4
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Suzuko Watanabe
6.9
1989
Goryokaku
0.0
1988
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
(1 episode)
0.0
1988
Miyako no kaze
竹田静 · (150 episodes)
0.0
1986
Inochi
Takahara Chie · (50 episodes)
0.0
1986
The Roads Men Travel
Tatsuo's mother · (3 episodes)
8.2
1976
Katsu Kaishu
Onobu (Kaishu's mother) · (52 episodes)
0.0
1974
Pieces of Autumn
(15 episodes)
0.0
1973
Samurai Banners
7.4
1969
Tabiji
室伏はる子（伊東はる子） · (309 episodes)
0.0
1967
Whirlwind
Kikusato
6.8
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Yaeno Kurumiya
0.0
1964
Umineko ga tonde
0.0
1962
Ballad of a Workman
Chiyo
5.7
1962
Mother Country
6.5
1962
Haitoku no mesu
Nobuko Sato
0.0
1961
Zero Focus
Teiko Uhara
6.6
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
Kobue
7.4
1961
Cruel Story of Youth
Yuki
6.7
1960
Spring Dreams
Kazuko Yasugi
5.8
1960
Thus Another Day
Yasuko Satô
5.6
1959
Good Morning
Setsuko Arita
7.7
1959
The Snow Flurry
Sakura
6.6
1959
The Eternal Rainbow
Chie
6.3
1958
Equinox Flower
Fumiko Mikami
7.4
1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
0.0
1958
Woman Unveiled
6.0
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Yuhime
5.3
1958
Elegy of the North
Reiko Hyodo
6.0
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Yuhime
7.0
1957
Yellow Crow
Yasuko Ashihara
5.8
1957
A Case of Honor
0.0
1957
The Rose on His Arm
Keiko Hase
5.8
1956
Women in Prison
Senko Minami, prisoner
1.0
1956
Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
6.9
1956
Mune yori mune ni
Harue Kawazoe
0.0
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Reiko
0.0
1955
Taira Clan Saga
Tokiko
7.1
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
Yumiko (segment 3)
0.0
1955
Beautiful Days
6.7
1955
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
6.0
1954
A Billionaire
Sute Kagami
5.7
1954
The Woman in the Rumor
Yukiko Mabuchi
7.4
1954
The Garden of Women
Akiko Hayashino
6.6
1954
Love Letter
Michiko Kubota
6.8
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
6.1
1953
Brother and Sister
San
6.6
1953
Reunion
6.0
1953
This Way, That Way
7.0
1952
The Paths of Two Maidens
0.0
1952
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
0.0
1952
Honoo no hada
0.0
1951
The Bitch
Yukiko
0.0
1951
The Idiot
Ayako
7.0
1951
Oogonju
Kozue Takenaka
0.0
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Hamako Abe
6.7
1950
Guntō nanban-sen
0.0
1950
The Angry Street
6.5
1950
Till We Meet Again
Keiko Ono
6.3
1950
Rinchi
Kuwako
0.0
1949
Akireta musumetachi
0.0
1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
Girl at church
0.0
1949
Delinquent Girl
0.0
1949
Drunken Angel
Schoolgirl
7.6
1948
Spring Awakens
Kumiko Hirobe
6.8
1947
Four Love Stories
5.8
1947