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.
79 movies · 7 shows
As the River Flows
2000·9.0
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1997·7.5
Tokyo Fair Weather
1997·7.2
119
1994·6.3
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
1993·9.0
Okoge
1992·6.0
Nowhere Man
1991·6.2
Godzilla vs. Biollante
1989·7.4
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989·7.3
Goryokaku
1988·0.0
Through Days and Months
1969·8.0
Samurai Banners
1969·7.4
Whirlwind
1964·6.6
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964·0.0
Umineko ga tonde
1962·0.0
Ballad of a Workman
1962·6.1
Mother Country
1962·6.8
Haitoku no mesu
1961·7.0
Moonlight in the Rain
1961·9.0
Zero Focus
1961·6.3
Hijō no otoko
1961·0.0
Daredevil in the Castle
1961·7.5
Cruel Story of Youth
1960·6.6
Spring Dreams
1960·6.0
Thus Another Day
1959·5.7
Good Morning
1959·7.7
The Snow Flurry
1959·6.9
The Eternal Rainbow
1958·7.3
Equinox Flower
1958·7.4
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
1958·9.0
Woman Unveiled
1958·8.0
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
1958·5.4
Elegy of the North
1957·6.1
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
1957·6.5
Yellow Crow
1957·6.7
A Case of Honor
1957·0.0
The Rose on His Arm
1956·5.8
Women in Prison
1956·4.0
Farewell to Dream
1956·7.1
Mune yori mune ni
1955·10.0
Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree
1955·8.0
Taira Clan Saga
1955·6.8
Bride in the Kitchen
1955·0.0
If Indeed One Loves
1955·10.0
Beautiful Days
1955·6.8
Tomorrow's Happiness
1955·0.0
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
1954·6.6
A Billionaire
1954·6.8
Aku no tanoshisa
1954·0.0
The Woman in the Rumor
1954·7.3
The Garden of Women
1954·6.6
Autumn Interlude
1954·0.0
Love Letter
1953·6.8
An Inlet of Muddy Water
1953·6.3
Brother and Sister
1953·6.3
Reunion
1953·6.0
This Way, That Way
1952·8.5
The Paths of Two Maidens
1952·0.0
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
1952·0.0
Gunrō no machi
1952·0.0
Honoo no hada
1951·0.0
The Bitch
1951·8.0
The Idiot
1951·7.0
Golden Beast
1950·0.0
Portrait of Madame Yuki
1950·6.7
Gozen reiji no shutugoku
1950·0.0
Guntō nanban-sen
1950·8.0
The Angry Street
1950·6.7
Till We Meet Again
1950·6.7
Tsuki no shussen
1950·0.0
Rinchi
1949·0.0
Akireta musumetachi
1949·0.0
Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya
1949·0.0
Jakoman and Tetsu
1949·10.0
Delinquent Girl
1949·7.0
My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain
1948·0.0
Drunken Angel
1948·7.6
Spring Awakens
1947·6.8
Four Love Stories
1947·6.2