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Yoshiko Kuga
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 Scho…
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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.
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2007
Heroic Age
TV show Mechanical Designer
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2000
As the River Flows
Movie Yuki Shiokawa
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1997
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie Michie Yoshiyama
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1997
Tokyo Fair Weather
Movie
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1994
119
Movie
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1993
Sky Cannot Be This Blue
Movie Fumi Kobayshi
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1992
Okoge
Movie Women's clothing store manager
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1991
Nowhere Man
Movie Lady who walks
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1989
Godzilla vs. Biollante
Movie Prime Minister's Wife
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1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Movie Suzuko Watanabe
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1988
Goryokaku
Movie
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1988
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 千姫有情 母ありき
TV show
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1986
Miyako no kaze
TV show 竹田静
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1986
Inochi
TV show Takahara Chie
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1976
The Roads Men Travel
TV show Tatsuo's mother
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1974
Katsu Kaishu
TV show Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
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1973
Pieces of Autumn
TV show
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1969
Through Days and Months
Movie Matsuko's Mother
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1969
Samurai Banners
Movie
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1967
Tabiji
TV show 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
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1965
Ane to imôto
Movie Yoshie Matsumoto
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1964
Whirlwind
Movie Kikusato
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1964
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Movie Yaeno Kurumiya
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1962
Umineko ga tonde
Movie
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1962
Ballad of a Workman
Movie Chiyo
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1962
Mother Country
Movie
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1961
Haitoku no mesu
Movie Nobuko Sato
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1961
Moonlight in the Rain
Movie
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1961
Zero Focus
Movie Teiko Uhara
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1961
Hijō no otoko
Movie
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1961
Daredevil in the Castle
Movie Kobue
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1960
Cruel Story of Youth
Movie Yuki
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1960
Spring Dreams
Movie Kazuko Yasugi
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1959
Thus Another Day
Movie Yasuko Satô
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1959
Good Morning
Movie Setsuko Arita
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1959
The Snow Flurry
Movie Sakura
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1958
The Eternal Rainbow
Movie Chie
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1958
Equinox Flower
Movie Fumiko Mikami
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1958
Beyond the Seasonal Wind
Movie
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1958
Woman Unveiled
Movie
