Yoshiko Kuga
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1931-01-21
Deathday 2024-06-09 (93 years old)
Place of Birth Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As Kuga Yoshiko, Ёсико Куга
Yoshiko Kuga
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 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.
Known For
Actor
as Yuki Shiokawa
as Michie Yoshiyama
as Fumi Kobayshi
as Women's clothing store manager
as Lady who walks
as Prime Minister's Wife
as Suzuko Watanabe
as 竹田静
as Takahara Chie
as Tatsuo's mother
as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
as Kikusato
as Yaeno Kurumiya
as Chiyo
as Nobuko Sato
as Teiko Uhara
as Kobue
as Yuki
as Kazuko Yasugi
as Yasuko Satô
as Setsuko Arita
as Sakura
as Chie
as Fumiko Mikami
as Yuhime
as Reiko Hyodo
as Yuhime
as Yasuko Ashihara
as Keiko Hase
as Senko Minami, prisoner
as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
as Harue Kawazoe
as Reiko
as Tokiko
as Yumiko (segment 3)
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
as Sute Kagami
as Yukiko Mabuchi
as Akiko Hayashino
as Michiko Kubota
as San
as Yukiko
as Ayako
as Kozue Takenaka
as Hamako Abe
as Keiko Ono
as Kuwako
as Girl at church
as Schoolgirl
as Kumiko Hirobe
Visual Effects
as Mechanical Designer