Yoshiko Kuga

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1931-01-21 (93 years old)

Deathday

2024-06-09

Place of Birth

Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan

Yoshiko Kuga

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 Wa...

Acting

1950

Oogonju

as Kozue Takenaka

1951

The Idiot

as Ayako

1948

Drunken Angel

as Schoolgirl

1958

Equinox Flower

as Fumiko Mikami

1959

Good Morning

as Setsuko Arita

1955

1954

The Woman in the Rumor

as Yukiko Mabuchi

1950

1989

Godzilla vs. Biollante

as Prime Minister's Wife

1961

Zero Focus

as Teiko Uhara

1954

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

1959

1956

Farewell to Dream

as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko

1954

A Billionaire

as Sute Kagami

1954

The Garden of Women

as Akiko Hayashino

1959

Thus Another Day

as Yasuko Satô

1960

Spring Dreams

as Kazuko Yasugi

1947

Spring Awakens

as Kumiko Hirobe

1957

Elegy of the North

as Reiko Hyodo

1953

Love Letter

as Michiko Kubota

1957

Yellow Crow

as Yasuko Ashihara

1955

Mune yori mune ni

as Harue Kawazoe

1994

2000

As the River Flows

as Yuki Shiokawa

1992

Okoge

as Women's clothing store manager

1991

Nowhere Man

as Lady who walks

1950

Till We Meet Again

as Keiko Ono

1949

Rinchi

as Kuwako

1956

The Rose on His Arm

as Keiko Hase

1997

1964

Whirlwind

as Kikusato

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Suzuko Watanabe

1993

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

as Fumi Kobayshi

1951

The Bitch

as Yukiko

1956

Women in Prison

as Senko Minami, prisoner

1955

Ai Sureba Koso

as Yumiko (segment 3)

1961

Haitoku no mesu

as Nobuko Sato

1949

Jakoman and Tetsu

as Girl at church

1964

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