Cast
Yoshiko Kuga
Acting
Cast
Yoshiko Kuga
Known for
Acting
Born
1931-01-21
From
Ushigome, Japon
Died
2024-06-09
Also known as Kuga Yoshiko
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.
★7.4
MOVIE1989
Godzilla vs. Biollante
as Prime Minister's Wife
★6.1
MOVIE1962
Ballad of a Workman
as Chiyo
MOVIE1951
Honoo no hada
★4.0
MOVIE1956
Women in Prison
as Senko Minami, prisoner
★7.7
MOVIE1959
Good Morning
as Setsuko Arita
★7.6
MOVIE1948
Drunken Angel
as Schoolgirl
★6.8
MOVIE1953
Love Letter
as Michiko Kubota
★6.6
MOVIE1960
Cruel Story of Youth
as Yuki
★5.4
MOVIE1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Yuhime
MOVIE1952
Gunrō no machi
as 宇和島見奈子
MOVIE1948
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
as Shizu
★7.0
MOVIE1951
The Idiot
as Ayako
★7.4
MOVIE1958
Equinox Flower
as Fumiko Mikami
MOVIE1955
Tomorrow's Happiness
as Tomiko
★9.0
MOVIE2000
As the River Flows
as Yuki Shiokawa
MOVIE1949
Rinchi
as Kuwako
★8.0
MOVIE1969
Through Days and Months
as Matsuko's Mother
MOVIE1957
A Case of Honor
MOVIE1954
Autumn Interlude
as Setsuko Fushimi
MOVIE1950
Tsuki no shussen
as 荻原静江
MOVIE1955
Bride in the Kitchen
★7.3
MOVIE1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Suzuko Watanabe
★6.6
MOVIE1964
Whirlwind
as Kikusato
★6.2
MOVIE1991
Nowhere Man
as Lady who walks
★7.2
MOVIE1997
Tokyo Fair Weather
★7.1
MOVIE1956
Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
★6.0
MOVIE1960
Spring Dreams
as Kazuko Yasugi
MOVIE1988
Goryokaku
★7.5
MOVIE1961
Daredevil in the Castle
as Kobue
★6.3
MOVIE1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
★6.8
MOVIE1962
Mother Country
★6.3
MOVIE1953
Brother and Sister
as San
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Hamako Abe
★7.5
MOVIE1997
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Michie Yoshiyama
★6.6
MOVIE1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
★6.7
MOVIE1957
Yellow Crow
as Yasuko Ashihara
★6.7
MOVIE1950
Till We Meet Again
as Keiko Ono
★10.0
MOVIE1955
If Indeed One Loves
as Yumiko (segment 3)
★8.0
MOVIE1950
Guntō nanban-sen
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Taira Clan Saga
as Tokiko
★6.8
MOVIE1947
Spring Awakens
as Kumiko Hirobe
★6.5
MOVIE1957
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Yuhime
★7.4
MOVIE1969
Samurai Banners
★9.0
MOVIE1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
★6.0
MOVIE1992
Okoge
as Women's clothing store manager
★6.8
MOVIE1955
Beautiful Days
as Sakurako
★7.3
MOVIE1954
The Woman in the Rumor
as Yukiko Mabuchi
MOVIE1952
The Paths of Two Maidens
★6.3
MOVIE1961
Zero Focus
as Teiko Uhara
★6.1
MOVIE1957
Elegy of the North
as Reiko Hyodo
★5.7
MOVIE1959
Thus Another Day
as Yasuko Satô
MOVIE1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Yaeno Kurumiya
MOVIE1954
Aku no tanoshisa
as Yasuyo Uematsu
★6.9
MOVIE1959
The Snow Flurry
as Sakura
MOVIE1950
Golden Beast
as Kozue Takenaka
★6.8
MOVIE1954
A Billionaire
as Sute Kagami
★8.0
MOVIE1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Reiko
MOVIE1961
Hijō no otoko
★6.7
MOVIE1950
The Angry Street
★6.3
MOVIE1994
119
★9.0
MOVIE1961
Moonlight in the Rain
★5.8
MOVIE1956
The Rose on His Arm
as Keiko Hase
★6.6
MOVIE1954
The Garden of Women
as Akiko Hayashino
★7.3
MOVIE1958
The Eternal Rainbow
as Chie
★7.0
MOVIE1949
Delinquent Girl
★6.0
MOVIE1953
Reunion
★8.5
MOVIE1952
This Way, That Way
★6.2
MOVIE1947
Four Love Stories
MOVIE1962
Umineko ga tonde
★8.0
MOVIE1958
Woman Unveiled
MOVIE1949
Akireta musumetachi
★10.0
MOVIE1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
as Girl at church
★8.0
MOVIE1951
The Bitch
as Yukiko
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Haitoku no mesu
as Nobuko Sato
★9.0
MOVIE1993
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Fumi Kobayshi
★10.0
MOVIE1955
Mune yori mune ni
as Harue Kawazoe
MOVIE1952