Yoshiko Kuga
Acting • Born 1931-01-21 – Died 2024-06-09
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.
Filmography
77 credits
Oogonju
Movie • 1950
Kozue Takenaka
The Idiot
Movie • 1951
Ayako
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Schoolgirl
Equinox Flower
Movie • 1958
Fumiko Mikami
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Setsuko Arita
Taira Clan Saga
Movie • 1955
Tokiko
The Woman in the Rumor
Movie • 1954
Yukiko Mabuchi
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie • 1950
Hamako Abe
Goryokaku
Movie • 1988
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Movie • 1989
Prime Minister's Wife
Cruel Story of Youth
Movie • 1960
Yuki
Umineko ga tonde
Movie • 1962
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Movie • 1957
Yuhime
Zero Focus
Movie • 1961
Teiko Uhara
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Movie • 1958
Yuhime
Brother and Sister
Movie • 1953
San
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Movie • 1954
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
The Snow Flurry
Movie • 1959
Sakura
Beautiful Days
Movie • 1955
Farewell to Dream
Movie • 1956
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
A Billionaire
Movie • 1954
Sute Kagami
The Eternal Rainbow
Movie • 1958
Chie
The Garden of Women
Movie • 1954
Akiko Hayashino
Spring Dreams
Movie • 1960
Kazuko Yasugi
Thus Another Day
Movie • 1959
Yasuko Satô
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Movie • 1952
Daredevil in the Castle
Movie • 1961
Kobue
Spring Awakens
Movie • 1947
Kumiko Hirobe
Elegy of the North
Movie • 1957
Reiko Hyodo
Samurai Banners
Movie • 1969
Four Love Stories
Movie • 1947
Love Letter
Movie • 1953
Michiko Kubota
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Movie • 1953
Yellow Crow
Movie • 1957
Yasuko Ashihara
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Movie • 1955
Reiko
Mune yori mune ni
Movie • 1955
Harue Kawazoe
Tokyo Fair Weather
Movie • 1997
119
Movie • 1994
As the River Flows
Movie • 2000
Yuki Shiokawa
Okoge
Movie • 1992
Women's clothing store manager
The Paths of Two Maidens
Movie • 1952
Guntō nanban-sen
Movie • 1950
Nowhere Man
Movie • 1991
Lady who walks
Till We Meet Again
Movie • 1950
Keiko Ono
The Angry Street
Movie • 1950
Rinchi
Movie • 1949
Kuwako
The Rose on His Arm
Movie • 1956
Keiko Hase
Ballad of a Workman
Movie • 1962
Chiyo
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie • 1997
Michie Yoshiyama
Whirlwind
Movie • 1964
Kikusato
Akireta musumetachi
Movie • 1949
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie • 1989
Suzuko Watanabe
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie • 1958
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Movie • 1993
Fumi Kobayshi
Woman Unveiled
Movie • 1958
Delinquent Girl
Movie • 1949
Honoo no hada
Movie • 1951
This Way, That Way
Movie • 1952
The Bitch
Movie • 1951
Yukiko
Mother Country
Movie • 1962
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Senko Minami, prisoner
A Case of Honor
Movie • 1957
Ai Sureba Koso
Movie • 1955
Yumiko (segment 3)
Haitoku no mesu
Movie • 1961
Nobuko Sato
Jakoman and Tetsu
Movie • 1949
Girl at church
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie • 1964
Yaeno Kurumiya
Reunion
Movie • 1953
Hijō no otoko
Movie • 1961
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie • 1961
Aku no tanoshisa
Movie • 1954
Yasuyo Uematsu
The Roads Men Travel
TV • 1976
Tatsuo's mother
Miyako no kaze
TV • 1986
竹田静
Tabiji
TV • 1967
室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
Katsu Kaishu
TV • 1974
Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
Inochi
TV • 1986
Takahara Chie
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
TV • 1988
Pieces of Autumn
TV • 1973