Yoshiko Kuga
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Tabiji
室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
1967
Film
Drunken Angel
Schoolgirl
1948
Series
Miyako no kaze
竹田静
1986
Series
Katsu Kaishu
Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
1974
Series
Inochi
Takahara Chie
1986
Series
The Roads Men Travel
Tatsuo's mother
1976
Film
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Prime Minister's Wife
1989
Film
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Suzuko Watanabe
1989
Film
The Idiot
Ayako
1951
Film
119
1994
Film
Good Morning
Setsuko Arita
1959
Film
The Eternal Rainbow
Chie
1958
Series
Pieces of Autumn
1973
Film
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
Film
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Hamako Abe
1950
Film
Cruel Story of Youth
Yuki
1960
Film
Equinox Flower
Fumiko Mikami
1958
Film
Taira Clan Saga
Tokiko
1955
Film
To the Ends of the Earth
1953
Film
Beautiful Days
Sakurako
1955
Film
Brother and Sister
San
1953
Film
Jakoman and Tetsu
Girl at church
1949
Film
Shinzōyaburi no oka
1954
Film
Akireta musumetachi
1949
Film
Whirlwind
Kikusato
1964
Film
The Woman in the Rumor
Yukiko Mabuchi
1954
Film
Love Letter
Michiko Kubota
1953
Film
The Garden of Women
Akiko Hayashino
1954
Film
Spring Dreams
Kazuko Yasugi
1960
Film
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Yaeno Kurumiya
1964
Film
Samurai Banners
1969
Film
Dorei no machi
1951
Film
Gunrō no machi
宇和島見奈子
1952
Film
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Michie Yoshiyama
1997
Film
Hijō no otoko
1961
Film
Brotherly Love
1954
Film
Enoshima Elegy
1951
Film
Daredevil in the Castle
Kobue
1961
Byakuran kōran
1952
Film
Spring Awakens
Kumiko Hirobe
1947
Film
Zero Focus
Teiko Uhara
1961
Film
As the River Flows
Yuki Shiokawa
2000
Film
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
Film
Goryokaku
1988
Film
Yellow Crow
Yasuko Ashihara
1957
Film
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Reiko
1955
Film
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
Film
Kyūjō hiroba
1951
Film
Till We Meet Again
Keiko Ono
1950
Film
Thus Another Day
Yasuko Satô
1959
Film
Okoge
Women's clothing store manager
1992
Film
Women in Prison
Senko Minami, prisoner
1956
Film
Nowhere Man
Lady who walks
1991
Film
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Yuhime
1957
Film
The Snow Flurry
Sakura
1959
Film
Four Love Stories
1947
Film
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952
Film
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
1954
Film
The Bitch
Yukiko
1951
Series
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
1988
Film
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Yuhime
1958
Film
If Indeed One Loves
Yumiko (segment 3)
1955
Golden Beast
Kozue Takenaka
1950
Film
Woman Unveiled
1958
Film
Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1953
Film
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Film
Eternal Song of Nagasaki
1952
Film
Escape Between Midnight and Dawn
1950
Film
Haitoku no mesu
Nobuko Sato
1961
Film
Farewell to Dream
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
1956
Film
Ane to imôto
Yoshie Matsumoto
1965
Film
The Pleasures of Vice
Yasuyo Uematsu
1954
Film
Tomorrow's Happiness
Tomiko
1955
Film
Elegy of the North
Reiko Hyodo
1957
Film
Tsuki no shussen
荻原静江
1950
Film
The Angry Street
1950
Film
Mother Country
1962
Film
Mune yori mune ni
Harue Kawazoe
1955
Film
Delinquent Girl
1949
Film
Autumn Interlude
Setsuko Fushimi
1954
Film
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
Film
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Fumi Kobayshi
1993
Film
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
Shizu
1948
Film
A Billionaire
Sute Kagami
1954
Film
Reunion
1953
Film
A Case of Honor
1957
Film
This Way, That Way
1952
Film
Rinchi
Kuwako
1949
Film
Ballad of a Workman
Chiyo
1962
Film
The Rose on His Arm
Keiko Hase
1956
Film
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
Through Days and Months
Matsuko's Mother
1969
Honoo no hada
1951
Film
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949
Bride in the Kitchen
1955