Yoshiko Kuga

Known for ActingBorn 1931-01-21Died 2024-06-09Ushigome, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Mune yori mune ni

If Indeed One Loves

Jakoman and Tetsu

As the River Flows

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

Moonlight in the Rain

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

This Way, That Way

The Roads Men Travel

Heroic Age

Through Days and Months

Woman Unveiled

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

The Bitch

Guntō nanban-sen

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Good Morning

Godzilla vs. Biollante

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Tokyo Fair Weather

Samurai Banners

Drunken Angel

Equinox Flower

Daredevil in the Castle

The Woman in the Rumor

The Eternal Rainbow

Farewell to Dream

Haitoku no mesu

The Idiot

The Snow Flurry

Delinquent Girl

Mother Country

Love Letter

Taira Clan Saga

Beautiful Days

Spring Awakens

A Billionaire

Yellow Crow

119

Whirlwind

The Angry Street

Cruel Story of Youth

Till We Meet Again

Portrait of Madame Yuki

The Garden of Women

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

Nowhere Man

Yagyu Secret Scrolls