Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
Born: January 21, 1931 · Ushigome, Japon
Died: June 9, 2024 (aged 93)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
Good Morning
1959
Drunken Angel
1948
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989
Equinox Flower
1958
The Idiot
1951
Cruel Story of Youth
1960
The Woman in the Rumor
1954
Taira Clan Saga
1955
Love Letter
1953
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
Samurai Banners
1969
Zero Focus
1961
Photos (2)
Movies (83)
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Prime Minister's Wife
Drunken Angel
Schoolgirl
Good Morning
Setsuko Arita
Cruel Story of Youth
Yuki
The Idiot
Ayako
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Suzuko Watanabe
Equinox Flower
Fumiko Mikami
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Hamako Abe
Women in Prison
Senko Minami, prisoner
Enoshima Elegy
1951
Ballad of a Workman
Chiyo
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1953
The Woman in the Rumor
Yukiko Mabuchi
Taira Clan Saga
Tokiko
The Bitch
Yukiko
Love Letter
Michiko Kubota
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
Dorei no machi
1951
Elegy of the North
Reiko Hyodo
Daredevil in the Castle
Kobue
Samurai Banners
1969
Nowhere Man
Lady who walks
Spring Dreams
Kazuko Yasugi
Mother Country
1962
Brother and Sister
San
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Yaeno Kurumiya
Four Love Stories
1947
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Yuhime
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
Till We Meet Again
Keiko Ono
Whirlwind
Kikusato
Brotherly Love
1954
Zero Focus
Teiko Uhara
Okoge
Women's clothing store manager
The Snow Flurry
Sakura
Tsuki no shussen
荻原静江
If Indeed One Loves
Yumiko (segment 3)
Goryokaku
1988
The Garden of Women
Akiko Hayashino
Thus Another Day
Yasuko Satô
Spring Awakens
Kumiko Hirobe
Gunrō no machi
宇和島見奈子
119
1994
The Rose on His Arm
Keiko Hase
As the River Flows
Yuki Shiokawa
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Michie Yoshiyama
Beautiful Days
Sakurako
The Eternal Rainbow
Chie
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
A Billionaire
Sute Kagami
Jakoman and Tetsu
Girl at church
Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
Umineko ga tonde
1962
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Shizu
Delinquent Girl
1949
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Fumi Kobayshi
Ane to imôto
Yoshie Matsumoto
Haitoku no mesu
Nobuko Sato
Hijō no otoko
1961
Reunion
1953
The Angry Street
1950
Rinchi
Kuwako
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
Tomorrow's Happiness
Tomiko
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Reiko
A Case of Honor
1957
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952
Woman Unveiled
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Yuhime
Autumn Interlude
Setsuko Fushimi
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
The Pleasures of Vice
Yasuyo Uematsu
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
This Way, That Way
1952
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
Mune yori mune ni
Harue Kawazoe
Akireta musumetachi
1949
Yellow Crow
Yasuko Ashihara
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
