Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
Born January 21, 1931 · Ushigome, Shinjuku, 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.
Films (70)
As the River Flows
2000
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1997
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
119
1994
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993
Okoge
1992
Nowhere Man
1991
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
Goryokaku
1988
Samurai Banners
1969
Whirlwind
1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Ballad of a Workman
1962
Mother Country
1962
Haitoku no mesu
1961
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
Zero Focus
1961
Hijō no otoko
1961
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
Cruel Story of Youth
1960
Spring Dreams
1960
Thus Another Day
1959
Good Morning
1959
The Snow Flurry
1959
The Eternal Rainbow
1958
Equinox Flower
1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
Woman Unveiled
1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958
Elegy of the North
1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957
Yellow Crow
1957
A Case of Honor
1957
The Rose on His Arm
1956
Women in Prison
1956
Farewell to Dream
1956
Mune yori mune ni
1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955
Taira Clan Saga
1955
Ai Sureba Koso
1955
Beautiful Days
1955
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954
A Billionaire
1954
Aku no tanoshisa
1954
The Woman in the Rumor
1954
The Garden of Women
1954
Love Letter
1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Brother and Sister
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
1951
The Idiot
1951
Oogonju
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
The Angry Street
1950
Till We Meet Again
1950
Rinchi
1949
Akireta musumetachi
1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
1949
Delinquent Girl
1949
Drunken Angel
1948
Spring Awakens
1947
Four Love Stories
1947