Yoshiko Kuga
Yoshiko Kuga
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Nagisa Ōshima
Writers: Nagisa Ōshima,
Cast: Fumio Watanabe, Jun Hamamura, Kei Sat?, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinji Tanaka, Toshiko Kobayashi, Y?suke Kawazu, Yoshiko Kuga, Yosuke Hayashi, Yuki Tominaga,
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Writers: Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu,
Cast: Chish? Ry?, Haruko Sugimura, K?ji Shitara, Keiji Sada, Kuniko Miyake, Ky?ko Izumi, Masahiko Shimazu, Taiji Tonoyama, Toyo Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga,
Director: Yasujirō Ozu
Writers: Kōgo Noda, Yasujirō Ozu,
Cast: Chieko Naniwa, Chish? Ry?, Fujiko Yamamoto, Ineko Arima, Keiji Sada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Miyuki Kuwano, Shin Saburi, Teiji Takahashi, Yoshiko Kuga,
Director: Akira Kurosawa
Writers: Akira Kurosawa, Eijirō Hisaita,
Cast: Chieko Higashiyama, Eijir? Yanagi, Kokuten K?d?, Masayuki Mori, Minoru Chiaki, Noriko Sengoku, Setsuko Hara, Takashi Shimura, Toshir? Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga,