Yoshiko Kuga
Actor
Born January 21, 1931 in Ushigome, Japon
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
Heroic Age
As the River Flows
Yuki Shiokawa
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Michie Yoshiyama
Tokyo Fair Weather
119
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Fumi Kobayshi
Okoge
Women's clothing store manager
Nowhere Man
Lady who walks
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Prime Minister's Wife
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Suzuko Watanabe
Goryokaku
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
Miyako no kaze
竹田静
Inochi
Takahara Chie
The Roads Men Travel
Tatsuo's mother
Katsu Kaishu
Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
Pieces of Autumn
Samurai Banners
Tabiji
室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
Whirlwind
Kikusato
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Yaeno Kurumiya
Umineko ga tonde
Ballad of a Workman
Chiyo
Mother Country
Haitoku no mesu
Nobuko Sato
Moonlight in the Rain
Zero Focus
Teiko Uhara
Hijō no otoko
Daredevil in the Castle
Kobue
Cruel Story of Youth
Yuki
Spring Dreams
Kazuko Yasugi
Thus Another Day
Yasuko Satô
Good Morning
Setsuko Arita
The Snow Flurry
Sakura
The Eternal Rainbow
Chie
Equinox Flower
Fumiko Mikami
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Woman Unveiled
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Yuhime
Elegy of the North
Reiko Hyodo
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Yuhime
Yellow Crow
Yasuko Ashihara
A Case of Honor
The Rose on His Arm
Keiko Hase
Women in Prison
Senko Minami, prisoner
Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
Mune yori mune ni
Harue Kawazoe
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Reiko
Taira Clan Saga
Tokiko
If Indeed One Loves
Yumiko (segment 3)
Beautiful Days
Sakurako
Tomorrow's Happiness
Tomiko
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
A Billionaire
Sute Kagami
Aku no tanoshisa
Yasuyo Uematsu
The Woman in the Rumor
Yukiko Mabuchi
The Garden of Women
Akiko Hayashino
Autumn Interlude
Setsuko Fushimi
Love Letter
Michiko Kubota
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Brother and Sister
San
Reunion
This Way, That Way
The Paths of Two Maidens
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
Gunrō no machi
宇和島見奈子
The Bitch
Yukiko
The Idiot
Ayako
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Hamako Abe
Guntō nanban-sen
The Angry Street
Till We Meet Again
Keiko Ono
Rinchi
Kuwako
Akireta musumetachi
Jakoman and Tetsu
Girl at church
Delinquent Girl
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Shizu
Drunken Angel
Schoolgirl
Spring Awakens
Kumiko Hirobe
Four Love Stories