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