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.

Tabiji

室伏はる子（伊東はる子）

Inochi

Takahara Chie

Katsu Kaishu

Onobu (Kaishu's mother)

Godzilla vs. Biollante

Prime Minister's Wife

Miyako no kaze

竹田静

The Roads Men Travel

Tatsuo's mother

Good Morning

Setsuko Arita

Cruel Story of Youth

Yuki

Love Letter

Michiko Kubota

Equinox Flower

Fumiko Mikami

Samurai Banners

The Idiot

Ayako

Drunken Angel

Schoolgirl

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Suzuko Watanabe

Pieces of Autumn

Till We Meet Again

Keiko Ono

Daredevil in the Castle

Kobue

Yagyu Secret Scrolls

Yuhime

The Rose on His Arm

Keiko Hase

The Woman in the Rumor

Yukiko Mabuchi

Taira Clan Saga

Tokiko

Nowhere Man

Lady who walks

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2

Yaeno Kurumiya

Brother and Sister

San

Spring Dreams

Kazuko Yasugi

Tokyo Fair Weather

Portrait of Madame Yuki

Hamako Abe

119 Goryokaku

Farewell to Dream

Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko

Okoge

Women's clothing store manager

Four Love Stories

Umineko ga tonde

The Snow Flurry

Sakura

Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky

Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife

A Billionaire

Sute Kagami

Thus Another Day

Yasuko Satô

An Inlet of Muddy Water

Mother Country

Zero Focus

Teiko Uhara

Whirlwind

Kikusato

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

Michie Yoshiyama

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル　千姫有情　母ありき

I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki

Ai Sureba Koso

Yumiko (segment 3)

Elegy of the North

Reiko Hyodo

Sky Cannot Be This Blue

Fumi Kobayshi

A Case of Honor

Spring Awakens

Kumiko Hirobe

The Angry Street

This Way, That Way

Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree

Reiko

Yellow Crow

Yasuko Ashihara

The Eternal Rainbow

Chie

Oogonju

Kozue Takenaka

Ballad of a Workman

Chiyo

Delinquent Girl

Guntō nanban-sen

Haitoku no mesu

Nobuko Sato

Woman Unveiled

Beautiful Days

Beyond the Seasonal Wind

The Garden of Women

Akiko Hayashino

Jakoman and Tetsu

Girl at church

Rinchi

Kuwako

The Bitch

Yukiko

Hijō no otoko

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II