Yoshiko Kuga

Visual EffectsActor Jan 21 (died age 93) Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan 1947–2007 (60 year career)

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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 Kinosh…

Known For

Film

Good Morning

Setsuko Arita

Film

Drunken Angel

Schoolgirl

Film

Godzilla vs. Biollante

Prime Minister's Wife

Film

Equinox Flower

Fumiko Mikami

Film

The Idiot

Ayako

Film

Cruel Story of Youth

Yuki

Film

The Woman in the Rumor

Yukiko Mabuchi

Film

Taira Clan Saga

Tokiko

Filmography

Acting (77)

Movies (70)

As the River Flows

2000

as Yuki Shiokawa

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

as Michie Yoshiyama

Tokyo Fair Weather

119

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

1993

as Fumi Kobayshi

Okoge

1992

as Women's clothing store manager

5.6

Nowhere Man

1991

as Lady who walks

5.4

Godzilla vs. Biollante

1989

as Prime Minister's Wife

7.4

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Suzuko Watanabe

Goryokaku

Samurai Banners

Whirlwind

as Kikusato

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

1964

as Yaeno Kurumiya

Ballad of a Workman

as Chiyo

Umineko ga tonde

Mother Country

Hijō no otoko

Zero Focus

as Teiko Uhara

Daredevil in the Castle

1961

as Kobue

7.1

Moonlight in the Rain

1961

Haitoku no mesu

1961

as Nobuko Sato

Cruel Story of Youth

as Yuki

Spring Dreams

as Kazuko Yasugi

Good Morning

as Setsuko Arita

The Snow Flurry

as Sakura

Thus Another Day

as Yasuko Satô

Equinox Flower

as Fumiko Mikami

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II

1958

as Yuhime

5.3

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

The Eternal Rainbow

as Chie

Woman Unveiled

Elegy of the North

as Reiko Hyodo

Yellow Crow

as Yasuko Ashihara

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

as Yuhime

A Case of Honor

The Rose on His Arm

as Keiko Hase

Farewell to Dream

as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko

6.9

Women in Prison

1956

as Senko Minami, prisoner

1.0

If Indeed One Loves

1955

as Yumiko (segment 3)

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

1955

as Reiko

Mune yori mune ni

1955

as Harue Kawazoe

Taira Clan Saga

as Tokiko

Beautiful Days

as Sakurako

A Billionaire

as Sute Kagami

The Woman in the Rumor

1954

as Yukiko Mabuchi

7.2

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

1954

as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

The Garden of Women

as Akiko Hayashino

Aku no tanoshisa

as Yasuyo Uematsu

Love Letter

as Michiko Kubota

Reunion

Brother and Sister

as San

An Inlet of Muddy Water

1953

6.1

The Paths of Two Maidens

1952

This Way, That Way

1952

7.0

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

The Idiot

as Ayako

The Bitch

as Yukiko

Honoo no hada

1951

Portrait of Madame Yuki

as Hamako Abe

Guntō nanban-sen

Oogonju

as Kozue Takenaka

Till We Meet Again

as Keiko Ono

The Angry Street

Delinquent Girl

Jakoman and Tetsu

as Girl at church

Rinchi

1949

as Kuwako

Akireta musumetachi

Drunken Angel

as Schoolgirl

Four Love Stories

Spring Awakens

as Kumiko Hirobe

Television (7)

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル　千姫有情　母ありき

1988

Inochi

1986

as Takahara Chie

Miyako no kaze

1986

as 竹田静

The Roads Men Travel

1976

as Tatsuo's mother

8.2

Katsu Kaishu

1974

as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)

Pieces of Autumn

1973

Tabiji

1967

as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）

Crew (1)

Television (1)

Heroic Age

2007

Mechanical Designer

7.2