
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, Ёсико Куга, یوشیکو کوگا
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.

Godzilla vs. Biollante
as Prime Minister's Wife

The Idiot
as Ayako

Spring Dreams
as Kazuko Yasugi

Good Morning
as Setsuko Arita

Daredevil in the Castle
as Kobue

Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Hamako Abe

Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Suzuko Watanabe

Drunken Angel
as Schoolgirl

The Garden of Women
as Akiko Hayashino

An Inlet of Muddy Water

Samurai Banners

Equinox Flower
as Fumiko Mikami

Cruel Story of Youth
as Yuki

Brother and Sister
as San

Love Letter
as Michiko Kubota

Tokyo Fair Weather

A Billionaire
as Sute Kagami

Nowhere Man
as Lady who walks

As the River Flows
as Yuki Shiokawa

Four Love Stories

Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Yuhime

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Michie Yoshiyama

The Eternal Rainbow
as Chie

Zero Focus
as Teiko Uhara

119

Taira Clan Saga
as Tokiko

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Yuhime

The Woman in the Rumor
as Yukiko Mabuchi

Goryokaku

Spring Awakens
as Kumiko Hirobe

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Yaeno Kurumiya

Mune yori mune ni
as Harue Kawazoe

Yellow Crow
as Yasuko Ashihara

Okoge
as Women's clothing store manager

Hijō no otoko

If Indeed One Loves
as Yumiko (segment 3)

Ballad of a Workman
as Chiyo

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Reiko

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

Till We Meet Again
as Keiko Ono

Thus Another Day
as Yasuko Satô

Beautiful Days
as Sakurako

This Way, That Way

The Rose on His Arm
as Keiko Hase

The Angry Street

Golden Beast
as Kozue Takenaka

Whirlwind
as Kikusato

The Bitch
as Yukiko

The Snow Flurry
as Sakura

Rinchi
as Kuwako

Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko

Women in Prison
as Senko Minami, prisoner

Jakoman and Tetsu
as Girl at church

Delinquent Girl

Akireta musumetachi

Woman Unveiled

Mother Country

Haitoku no mesu
as Nobuko Sato

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

Honoo no hada

The Paths of Two Maidens

Moonlight in the Rain

Umineko ga tonde

A Case of Honor

Elegy of the North
as Reiko Hyodo

Aku no tanoshisa
as Yasuyo Uematsu

Reunion

Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Fumi Kobayshi

Guntō nanban-sen

月の出船
as 荻原静江

Tomorrow's Happiness
as Tomiko

Autumn Interlude
as Setsuko Fushimi

My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
as Shizu

Through Days and Months
as Matsuko's Mother
