Yoshiko Kuga

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan, 1931-01-21

Died: 2024-06-09

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1947	Four Love Stories		58
2	1947	Spring Awakens	Kumiko Hirobe	68
3	1948	Drunken Angel	Schoolgirl	76
4	1949	Delinquent Girl		0
5	1949	Jakoman and Tetsu	Girl at church	0
6	1949	Akireta musumetachi		0
7	1949	Rinchi	Kuwako	0
8	1950	Till We Meet Again	Keiko Ono	63
9	1950	The Angry Street		65
10	1950	Guntō nanban-sen		0
11	1950	Portrait of Madame Yuki	Hamako Abe	67
12	1950	Oogonju	Kozue Takenaka	0
13	1951	The Idiot	Ayako	70
14	1951	The Bitch	Yukiko	0
15	1951	Honoo no hada		0
16	1952	I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki		0
17	1952	The Paths of Two Maidens		0
18	1952	This Way, That Way		70
19	1953	Reunion		60
20	1953	Brother and Sister	San	66
21	1953	An Inlet of Muddy Water		61
22	1953	Love Letter	Michiko Kubota	68
23	1954	The Garden of Women	Akiko Hayashino	66
24	1954	The Woman in the Rumor	Yukiko Mabuchi	74
25	1954	A Billionaire	Sute Kagami	57
26	1954	Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky	Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife	60
27	1955	Beautiful Days		67
28	1955	Ai Sureba Koso	Yumiko (segment 3)	0
29	1955	Taira Clan Saga	Tokiko	71
30	1955	Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree	Reiko	0
31	1955	Mune yori mune ni	Harue Kawazoe	0
32	1956	Farewell to Dream	Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko	69
33	1956	Women in Prison	Senko Minami, prisoner	10
34	1956	The Rose on His Arm	Keiko Hase	58
35	1957	A Case of Honor		0
36	1957	Yellow Crow	Yasuko Ashihara	58
37	1957	Yagyu Secret Scrolls	Yuhime	70
38	1957	Elegy of the North	Reiko Hyodo	54
39	1958	Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II	Yuhime	53
40	1958	Woman Unveiled		60
41	1958	Beyond the Seasonal Wind		0
42	1958	Equinox Flower	Fumiko Mikami	74
43	1958	The Eternal Rainbow	Chie	63
44	1959	The Snow Flurry	Sakura	66
45	1959	Good Morning	Setsuko Arita	77
46	1959	Thus Another Day	Yasuko Satô	56
47	1960	Spring Dreams	Kazuko Yasugi	58
48	1960	Cruel Story of Youth	Yuki	67
49	1961	Daredevil in the Castle	Kobue	74
50	1961	Zero Focus	Teiko Uhara	66
51	1961	Haitoku no mesu	Nobuko Sato	0
52	1962	Mother Country		65
53	1962	Ballad of a Workman	Chiyo	57
54	1962	Umineko ga tonde		0
55	1964	To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2	Yaeno Kurumiya	0
56	1964	Whirlwind	Kikusato	68
57	1969	Samurai Banners		74
58	1988	Goryokaku		0
59	1989	Four Days of Snow and Blood	Suzuko Watanabe	69
60	1989	Godzilla vs. Biollante	Prime Minister's Wife	74
61	1991	Nowhere Man	Lady who walks	52
62	1992	Okoge	Women's clothing store manager	63
63	1993	Sky Cannot Be This Blue	Fumi Kobayshi	0
64	1994	119		60
65	1997	Tokyo Fair Weather		68
66	1997	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time	Michie Yoshiyama	50
67	2000	As the River Flows	Yuki Shiokawa	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1967	Tabiji	室伏はる子（伊東はる子）	0
2	1973	Pieces of Autumn		0
3	1974	Katsu Kaishu	Onobu (Kaishu's mother)	0
4	1976	The Roads Men Travel	Tatsuo's mother	82
5	1986	Inochi	Takahara Chie	0
6	1986	Miyako no kaze	竹田静	0
7	1988	長七郎江戸日記スペシャル　千姫有情　母ありき		0