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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 21, 1931
Died
June 9, 2024
Place of Birth
Ushigome, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As
- Kuga Yoshiko
- Ёсико Куга
- یوشیکو کوگا
Yoshiko Kuga
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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
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Yuki Shiokawa
As the River Flows
2000
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Michie Yoshiyama
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1997
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Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
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119
1994
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Fumi Kobayshi
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993
5.6
Women's clothing store manager
Okoge
1992
5.2
Lady who walks
Nowhere Man
1991
7.4
Prime Minister's Wife
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989
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Suzuko Watanabe
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
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Goryokaku
1988
Credits
As the River Flows
as Yuki Shiokawa
2000
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Michie Yoshiyama
1997
5.0
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997
6.8
119
1994
6.0
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Fumi Kobayshi
1993
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Okoge
as Women's clothing store manager
1992
5.6
Nowhere Man
as Lady who walks
1991
5.2
Godzilla vs. Biollante
as Prime Minister's Wife
1989
7.4
Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Suzuko Watanabe
1989
6.8
Goryokaku
1988
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長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
1988
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Miyako no kaze
as 竹田静
1986
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Inochi
as Takahara Chie
1986
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The Roads Men Travel
as Tatsuo's mother
1976
8.2
Katsu Kaishu
as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
1974
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Pieces of Autumn
1973
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Samurai Banners
1969
7.4
Tabiji
as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
1967
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Whirlwind
as Kikusato
1964
6.4
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Yaeno Kurumiya
1964
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Umineko ga tonde
1962
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Ballad of a Workman
as Chiyo
1962
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Mother Country
1962
6.5
Haitoku no mesu
as Nobuko Sato
1961
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Moonlight in the Rain
1961
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Zero Focus
as Teiko Uhara
1961
6.3
Hijō no otoko
1961
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Daredevil in the Castle
as Kobue
1961
7.1
Cruel Story of Youth
as Yuki
1960
6.5
Spring Dreams
as Kazuko Yasugi
1960
5.6
Thus Another Day
as Yasuko Satô
1959
5.3
Good Morning
as Setsuko Arita
1959
7.7
The Snow Flurry
as Sakura
1959
6.7
The Eternal Rainbow
as Chie
1958
6.3
Equinox Flower
as Fumiko Mikami
1958
7.4
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958
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Woman Unveiled
1958
6.0
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as Yuhime
1958
5.3
Elegy of the North
as Reiko Hyodo
1957
6.0
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as Yuhime
1957
7.0
Yellow Crow
as Yasuko Ashihara
1957
6.2
A Case of Honor
1957
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The Rose on His Arm
as Keiko Hase
1956
5.4
Women in Prison
as Senko Minami, prisoner
1956
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Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
1956
6.9
Mune yori mune ni
as Harue Kawazoe
1955
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Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
as Reiko
1955
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Taira Clan Saga
as Tokiko
1955
6.8
Ai Sureba Koso
as Yumiko (segment 3)
1955
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Beautiful Days
1955
6.6
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
1954
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A Billionaire
as Sute Kagami
1954
5.7
Aku no tanoshisa
as Yasuyo Uematsu
1954
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The Woman in the Rumor
as Yukiko Mabuchi
1954
7.2
The Garden of Women
as Akiko Hayashino
1954
6.6
Love Letter
as Michiko Kubota
1953
6.8
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953
6.1
Brother and Sister
as San
1953
6.2
Reunion
1953
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This Way, That Way
1952
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The Paths of Two Maidens
1952
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952
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Honoo no hada
1951
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The Bitch
as Yukiko
1951
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The Idiot
as Ayako
1951
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Oogonju
as Kozue Takenaka
1950
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Hamako Abe
1950
6.7
Guntō nanban-sen
1950
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The Angry Street
1950
6.5
Till We Meet Again
as Keiko Ono
1950
6.3
Rinchi
as Kuwako
1949
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Akireta musumetachi
1949
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as Girl at church
1949
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Delinquent Girl
1949
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Drunken Angel
as Schoolgirl
1948
7.6
Spring Awakens
as Kumiko Hirobe
1947
6.8
Four Love Stories
1947
5.8