Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
1931-01-21 · Ushigome, Japon
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
Heroic Age
2007 · Series
As the River Flows
2000 · Movie
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1997 · Movie
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997 · Movie
119
1994 · Movie
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993 · Movie
Okoge
1992 · Movie
Nowhere Man
1991 · Movie
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989 · Movie
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989 · Movie
Goryokaku
1988 · Movie
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
1988 · Series
Miyako no kaze
1986 · Series
Inochi
1986 · Series
The Roads Men Travel
1976 · Series
Katsu Kaishu
1974 · Series
Pieces of Autumn
1973 · Series
Through Days and Months
1969 · Movie
Samurai Banners
1969 · Movie
Tabiji
1967 · Series
Ane to imôto
1965 · Movie
Whirlwind
1964 · Movie
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964 · Movie
Umineko ga tonde
1962 · Movie
Ballad of a Workman
1962 · Movie
Mother Country
1962 · Movie
Haitoku no mesu
1961 · Movie
Moonlight in the Rain
1961 · Movie
Zero Focus
1961 · Movie
Hijō no otoko
1961 · Movie
Daredevil in the Castle
1961 · Movie
Cruel Story of Youth
1960 · Movie
Spring Dreams
1960 · Movie
Thus Another Day
1959 · Movie
Good Morning
1959 · Movie
The Snow Flurry
1959 · Movie
The Eternal Rainbow
1958 · Movie
Equinox Flower
1958 · Movie
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958 · Movie
Woman Unveiled
1958 · Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958 · Movie
Elegy of the North
1957 · Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957 · Movie
Yellow Crow
1957 · Movie
A Case of Honor
1957 · Movie
The Rose on His Arm
1956 · Movie
Women in Prison
1956 · Movie
Farewell to Dream
1956 · Movie
Mune yori mune ni
1955 · Movie
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955 · Movie
Taira Clan Saga
1955 · Movie
Bride in the Kitchen
1955 · Movie
If Indeed One Loves
1955 · Movie
Beautiful Days
1955 · Movie
Tomorrow's Happiness
1955 · Movie
Brotherly Love
1954 · Movie
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954 · Movie
A Billionaire
1954 · Movie
The Pleasures of Vice
1954 · Movie
The Woman in the Rumor
1954 · Movie
The Garden of Women
1954 · Movie
Autumn Interlude
1954 · Movie
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954 · Movie
Love Letter
1953 · Movie
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953 · Movie
To the Ends of the Earth
1953 · Movie
Brother and Sister
1953 · Movie
Reunion
1953 · Movie
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1953 · Movie
This Way, That Way
1952 · Movie
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952 · Movie
Byakuran kōran
1952 · Movie
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952 · Movie
Gunrō no machi
1952 · Movie
Honoo no hada
1951 · Movie
Dorei no machi
1951 · Movie
The Bitch
1951 · Movie
Enoshima Elegy
1951 · Movie
The Idiot
1951 · Movie
Kyūjō hiroba
1951 · Movie
Golden Beast
1950 · Movie
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950 · Movie
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950 · Movie
Guntō nanban-sen
1950 · Movie
The Angry Street
1950 · Movie
Till We Meet Again
1950 · Movie
Tsuki no shussen
1950 · Movie
Rinchi
1949 · Movie
Akireta musumetachi
1949 · Movie
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949 · Movie
Jakoman and Tetsu
1949 · Movie
Delinquent Girl
1949 · Movie
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
1948 · Movie
Drunken Angel
1948 · Movie
Spring Awakens
1947 · Movie
Four Love Stories
1947 · Movie