Yoshiko Kuga
Birthday
1931/01/21
Day of death
2024/06/09 (93 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
Also know as
Kuga Yoshiko, Ёсико Куга
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...Read more
Acting
(1950) Oogonju
as Kozue Takenaka
(1951) The Idiot
as Ayako
(1948) Drunken Angel
as Schoolgirl
(1958) Equinox Flower
as Fumiko Mikami
(1959) Good Morning
as Setsuko Arita
(1955) Taira Clan Saga
as Tokiko
(1954) The Woman in the Rumor
as Yukiko Mabuchi
(1950) Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Hamako Abe
(1988) Goryokaku
as ---
(1989) Godzilla vs. Biollante
as Prime Minister's Wife
(1960) Cruel Story of Youth
as Yuki
(1962) Umineko ga tonde
as ---
(1957) Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Yuhime
(1961) Zero Focus
as Teiko Uhara
(1958) Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Yuhime
(1953) Brother and Sister
as San
(1954) Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
(1959) The Snow Flurry
as Sakura
(1955) Beautiful Days
as ---
(1956) Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
(1954) A Billionaire
as Sute Kagami
(1958) The Eternal Rainbow
as Chie
(1954) The Garden of Women
as Akiko Hayashino
(1959) Thus Another Day
as Yasuko Satô
(1960) Spring Dreams
as Kazuko Yasugi
(1952) I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
as ---
(1961) Daredevil in the Castle
as Kobue
(1947) Spring Awakens
as Kumiko Hirobe
(1957) Elegy of the North
as Reiko Hyodo
(1969) Samurai Banners
as ---
(1947) Four Love Stories
as ---
(1953) Love Letter
as Michiko Kubota
(1953) An Inlet of Muddy Water
as ---
(1957) Yellow Crow
as Yasuko Ashihara
(1955) Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Reiko
(1955) Mune yori mune ni
as Harue Kawazoe
(1997) Tokyo Fair Weather
as ---
(1994) 119
as ---
(2000) As the River Flows
as Yuki Shiokawa
(1992) Okoge
as Women's clothing store manager
(1952) The Paths of Two Maidens
as ---
(1950) Guntō nanban-sen
as ---
(1991) Nowhere Man
as Lady who walks
(1950) Till We Meet Again
as Keiko Ono
(1950) The Angry Street
as ---
(1949) Rinchi
as Kuwako
(1956) The Rose on His Arm
as Keiko Hase
(1962) Ballad of a Workman
as Chiyo
(1997) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Michie Yoshiyama
(1964) Whirlwind
as Kikusato
(1949) Akireta musumetachi
as ---
(1989) Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Suzuko Watanabe
(1958) Beyond the Seasonal Wind
as ---
(1993) Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Fumi Kobayshi
(1958) Woman Unveiled
as ---
(1949) Delinquent Girl
as ---
(1951) Honoo no hada
as ---
(1952) This Way, That Way
as ---
(1951) The Bitch
as Yukiko
(1962) Mother Country
as ---
(1956) Women in Prison
as Senko Minami, prisoner
(1957) A Case of Honor
as ---
(1955) Ai Sureba Koso
as Yumiko (segment 3)
(1961) Haitoku no mesu
as Nobuko Sato
(1949) Jakoman and Tetsu
as Girl at church
(1964) To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Yaeno Kurumiya
(1953) Reunion
as ---
(1976) The Roads Men Travel
as Tatsuo's mother
(1986) Miyako no kaze
as 竹田静
(1967) Tabiji
as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
(1974) Katsu Kaishu
as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
(1986) Inochi
as Takahara Chie
(1988) 長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
as ---
(1973) Pieces of Autumn
as ---