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Yukiko Tsukuba (June 10, 1906 – June 8, 1977) was a Japanese actress on stage, in silent films, and in early sound films. She was also the All-Japan women's billiards champion in 1929. Tsukuba was born in Tokyo. She trained as a geisha, and became an internationally publicized beauty and film star while she was still in her teens. Tsukuba began her screen career at the Shochiku studio, working with directors including Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinobu Ikeda, Heinosuke Gosho, Kiyohiko Ushihara, Buntaro Futagawa, Torajiro Saito, and Mikio Naruse. She was dubbed "the Mary Pickford of Japan" in a 1926 American newspaper. With actor Tsuzuya Moroguchi, Tsukuba started a short-lived production company, in 1927. Tsukuba married businessman and politician Jinkichi Terada [ja] in 1942. Her husband died in 1976, and she died in 1977, from stomach cancer, at the age of 70, in Setagaya.

Known For

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Masako, Atsumi's wife

No Blood Relation

1932

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Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story

1932

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The Willows of Ginza

1932

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ABC Lifeline

1931

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

1931

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

1931

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Futaba Uesugi

Youth, Why Do You Cry?

1930

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The Father and His Son

1929

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The Model of New Women

1929

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Nobuko Tomura

Symphony of Youth

1928

Credits

No Blood Relation

as Masako, Atsumi's wife

1932

7.1

Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story

1932

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The Willows of Ginza

1932

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ABC Lifeline

1931

6.1

Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1

1931

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Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2

1931

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Youth, Why Do You Cry?

as Futaba Uesugi

1930

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The Father and His Son

1929

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The Model of New Women

1929

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Symphony of Youth

as Nobuko Tomura

1928

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The Glory of the Shōwa Era

as Sayoko (Shōwa chapter)

1928

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Junange

1926

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Useless Button

1926

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Young Master

as Mitsuko Haneda

1926

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Love's Snare

as Sister Okoto

1925

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Fallen Samurai

as Yoshie

1925

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