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Yoshiko Kuga

Acting · Born January 21, 1931 · 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.

Movies with Yoshiko Kuga

• Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989) — Prime Minister's Wife
• Drunken Angel (1948) — Schoolgirl
• 119 (1994)
• Good Morning (1959) — Setsuko Arita
• Cruel Story of Youth (1960) — Yuki
• Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989) — Suzuko Watanabe
• Equinox Flower (1958) — Fumiko Mikami
• The Idiot (1951) — Ayako
• Love Letter (1953) — Michiko Kubota
• Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru (1953)
• Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950) — Hamako Abe
• Samurai Banners (1969)

TV shows with Yoshiko Kuga

• Tabiji (1967) — 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
• Miyako no kaze (1986) — 竹田静
• Inochi (1986) — Takahara Chie
• Katsu Kaishu (1974) — Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
• Pieces of Autumn (1973)