Acting
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.
Filmography
As the River Flows
Film · 2000
Tokyo Fair Weather
Film · 1997
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Film · 1997
119
Film · 1994
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Film · 1993
Okoge
Film · 1992
Nowhere Man
Film · 1991
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Film · 1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Film · 1989
Goryokaku
Film · 1988
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
Series · 1988
Miyako no kaze
Series · 1986
Inochi
Series · 1986
The Roads Men Travel
Series · 1976
Katsu Kaishu
Series · 1974
Pieces of Autumn
Series · 1973
Samurai Banners
Film · 1969
Through Days and Months
Film · 1969
Tabiji
Series · 1967
Ane to imôto
Film · 1965
Whirlwind
Film · 1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Film · 1964
Umineko ga tonde
Film · 1962
Ballad of a Workman
Film · 1962
Mother Country
Film · 1962
Zero Focus
Film · 1961
Daredevil in the Castle
Film · 1961
Haitoku no mesu
Film · 1961
Hijō no otoko
Film · 1961
Moonlight in the Rain
Film · 1961
Cruel Story of Youth
Film · 1960
Spring Dreams
Film · 1960
Good Morning
Film · 1959
The Snow Flurry
Film · 1959
Thus Another Day
Film · 1959
Equinox Flower
Film · 1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Film · 1958
The Eternal Rainbow
Film · 1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Film · 1958
Woman Unveiled
Film · 1958
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Film · 1957
Elegy of the North
Film · 1957
Yellow Crow
Film · 1957
A Case of Honor
Film · 1957
Farewell to Dream
Film · 1956
The Rose on His Arm
Film · 1956
Women in Prison
Film · 1956
Taira Clan Saga
Film · 1955
Beautiful Days
Film · 1955
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Film · 1955
Mune yori mune ni
Film · 1955
If Indeed One Loves
Film · 1955
Bride in the Kitchen
Film · 1955
Tomorrow's Happiness
Film · 1955
The Woman in the Rumor
Film · 1954
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Film · 1954
A Billionaire
Film · 1954
The Garden of Women
Film · 1954
The Pleasures of Vice
Film · 1954
Autumn Interlude
Film · 1954
Brotherly Love
Film · 1954
Shinzōyaburi no oka
Film · 1954
Brother and Sister
Film · 1953
Love Letter
Film · 1953
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Film · 1953
Reunion
Film · 1953
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
Film · 1953
To the Ends of the Earth
Film · 1953
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
Film · 1952
The Paths of Two Maidens
Film · 1952
This Way, That Way
Film · 1952
Gunrō no machi
Film · 1952
Byakuran kōran
Film · 1952
The Idiot
Film · 1951
Honoo no hada
Film · 1951
The Bitch
Film · 1951
Kyūjō hiroba
Film · 1951
Enoshima Elegy
Film · 1951
Dorei no machi
Film · 1951
Golden Beast
Film · 1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Film · 1950
Guntō nanban-sen
Film · 1950
Till We Meet Again
Film · 1950
The Angry Street
Film · 1950
Tsuki no shussen
Film · 1950
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
Film · 1950
Rinchi
Film · 1949
Akireta musumetachi
Film · 1949
Delinquent Girl
Film · 1949
Jakoman and Tetsu
Film · 1949
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
Film · 1949
Drunken Angel
Film · 1948
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Film · 1948
Spring Awakens
Film · 1947
Four Love Stories
Film · 1947