Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
Born 1931-01-21
Died 2024-06-09
Ushigome, Japon
93 credits
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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
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Acting
47 credits
Tabiji
Heroic Age
Miyako no kaze
Inochi
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Katsu Kaishu
The Roads Men Travel
Good Morning
Ballad of a Workman
The Idiot
Drunken Angel
Equinox Flower
Cruel Story of Youth
Women in Prison
Love Letter
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Four Days of Snow and Blood
As the River Flows
The Woman in the Rumor
Gunrō no machi
Zero Focus
Till We Meet Again
Daredevil in the Castle
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Spring Dreams
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Taira Clan Saga
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Nowhere Man
The Rose on His Arm
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Brother and Sister
Autumn Interlude
The Snow Flurry
Tsuki no shussen
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
The Eternal Rainbow
Thus Another Day
Spring Awakens
Farewell to Dream
Okoge
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Elegy of the North
Beautiful Days
The Bitch
The Garden of Women
Whirlwind
Other credits
13 credits
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
Kyūjō hiroba
Honoo no hada
Tokyo Fair Weather
Samurai Banners
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
A Case of Honor
Pieces of Autumn
119
Woman Unveiled
Goryokaku
Delinquent Girl
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