Yoshiko Kuga
Acting · Born 1931-01-21 · age 93 at death · 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.
Titles
Good Morning
Drunken Angel
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Equinox Flower
The Idiot
Cruel Story of Youth
The Woman in the Rumor
Taira Clan Saga
Love Letter
Samurai Banners
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Zero Focus
Brother and Sister
Heroic Age
Daredevil in the Castle
Four Days of Snow and Blood
The Garden of Women
Farewell to Dream
The Snow Flurry
Till We Meet Again
Whirlwind
Elegy of the North
Okoge
Tokyo Fair Weather
Beautiful Days
An Inlet of Muddy Water
Spring Dreams
The Rose on His Arm
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
Yellow Crow
The Angry Street
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
Ballad of a Workman
Thus Another Day
Spring Awakens
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Nowhere Man
Mother Country
Four Love Stories
The Roads Men Travel
The Eternal Rainbow
A Billionaire
119
Women in Prison
This Way, That Way
Woman Unveiled
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Mune yori mune ni
If Indeed One Loves
Jakoman and Tetsu
As the River Flows
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Moonlight in the Rain
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
Guntō nanban-sen
The Bitch
Through Days and Months
Delinquent Girl
Haitoku no mesu