Yoshiko Kuga
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 21, 1931
- Died
- June 9, 2024 (aged 93)
- Birthplace
- Ushigome, Japon
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.
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Filmography
As the River Flows
Movie · as Yuki Shiokawa
Tokyo Fair Weather
Movie
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie · as Michie Yoshiyama
119
Movie
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Movie · as Fumi Kobayshi
Okoge
Movie · as Women's clothing store manager
Nowhere Man
Movie · as Lady who walks
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Movie · as Prime Minister's Wife
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie · as Suzuko Watanabe
Goryokaku
Movie
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
TV · 1 ep
Miyako no kaze
TV · as 竹田静 · 150 eps
Inochi
TV · as Takahara Chie · 50 eps
The Roads Men Travel
TV · as Tatsuo's mother · 3 eps
Katsu Kaishu
TV · as Onobu (Kaishu's mother) · 52 eps
Pieces of Autumn
TV · 15 eps
Samurai Banners
Movie
Through Days and Months
Movie · as Matsuko's Mother
Tabiji
TV · as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子） · 309 eps
Ane to imôto
Movie · as Yoshie Matsumoto
Whirlwind
Movie · as Kikusato
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie · as Yaeno Kurumiya
Umineko ga tonde
Movie
Ballad of a Workman
Movie · as Chiyo
Mother Country
Movie
Zero Focus
Movie · as Teiko Uhara
Daredevil in the Castle
Movie · as Kobue
Haitoku no mesu
Movie · as Nobuko Sato
Hijō no otoko
Movie
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie
Cruel Story of Youth
Movie · as Yuki
Spring Dreams
Movie · as Kazuko Yasugi
Good Morning
Movie · as Setsuko Arita
The Snow Flurry
Movie · as Sakura
Thus Another Day
Movie · as Yasuko Satô
Equinox Flower
Movie · as Fumiko Mikami
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Movie · as Yuhime
The Eternal Rainbow
Movie · as Chie
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie · as Fumie Namura
Woman Unveiled
Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie · as Yuhime
Elegy of the North
Movie · as Reiko Hyodo
Yellow Crow
Movie · as Yasuko Ashihara
A Case of Honor
Movie
Farewell to Dream
Movie · as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
The Rose on His Arm
Movie · as Keiko Hase
Women in Prison
Movie · as Senko Minami, prisoner
Taira Clan Saga
Movie · as Tokiko
Beautiful Days
Movie · as Sakurako
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie · as Reiko
Mune yori mune ni
Movie · as Harue Kawazoe
If Indeed One Loves
Movie · as Yumiko (segment 3)
Bride in the Kitchen
Movie
Tomorrow's Happiness
Movie · as Tomiko
The Woman in the Rumor
Movie · as Yukiko Mabuchi
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie · as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
A Billionaire
Movie · as Sute Kagami
The Garden of Women
Movie · as Akiko Hayashino
The Pleasures of Vice
Movie · as Yasuyo Uematsu
Autumn Interlude
Movie · as Setsuko Fushimi
Brotherly Love
Movie
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Movie
Brother and Sister
Movie · as San
Love Letter
Movie · as Michiko Kubota
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie
Reunion
Movie
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
Movie
To the Ends of the Earth
Movie
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
Movie
The Paths of Two Maidens
Movie
This Way, That Way
Movie
Gunrō no machi
Movie · as 宇和島見奈子
Byakuran kōran
Movie
The Idiot
Movie · as Ayako
Honoo no hada
Movie
The Bitch
Movie · as Yukiko
Kyūjō hiroba
Movie
Enoshima Elegy
Movie
Dorei no machi
Movie
Golden Beast
Movie · as Kozue Takenaka
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie · as Hamako Abe
Guntō nanban-sen
Movie
Till We Meet Again
Movie · as Keiko Ono
The Angry Street
Movie
Tsuki no shussen
Movie · as 荻原静江
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
Movie
Rinchi
Movie · as Kuwako
Akireta musumetachi
Movie
Delinquent Girl
Movie
Jakoman and Tetsu
Movie · as Girl at church
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
Movie
Drunken Angel
Movie · as Schoolgirl
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Movie · as Shizu
Spring Awakens
Movie · as Kumiko Hirobe
Four Love Stories
Movie