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 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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Full filmography
- The Roads Men Travel (1976) as Tatsuo's mother
- Tabiji (1967) as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
- Katsu Kaishu (1974) as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
- Inochi (1986) as Takahara Chie
- Miyako no kaze (1986) as 竹田静
- Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) as Prime Minister's Wife
- Pieces of Autumn (1973)
- Good Morning (1959) as Setsuko Arita
- Drunken Angel (1948) as Schoolgirl
- The Idiot (1951) as Ayako
- Equinox Flower (1958) as Fumiko Mikami
- Whirlwind (1964) as Kikusato
- Cruel Story of Youth (1960) as Yuki
- Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) as Suzuko Watanabe
- The Woman in the Rumor (1954) as Yukiko Mabuchi
- Samurai Banners (1969)
- Daredevil in the Castle (1961) as Kobue
- Taira Clan Saga (1955) as Tokiko
- Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) as Hamako Abe
- Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957) as Yuhime
- Tokyo Fair Weather (1997)
- Beautiful Days (1955) as Sakurako
- To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964) as Yaeno Kurumiya
- An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)