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.
Good Morning
as Setsuko AritaA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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Godzilla vs. Biollante
as Prime Minister's WifeAfter the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned...
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Drunken Angel
as SchoolgirlDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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The Idiot
as AyakoKameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved...
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Cruel Story of Youth
as YukiA budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for...
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Equinox Flower
as Fumiko MikamiWataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter...
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Samurai Banners
as uncreditedKansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He...
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Till We Meet Again
as Keiko OnoSaburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
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Zero Focus
as Teiko UharaOne week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business...
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Brother and Sister
as SanThe eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with...
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Taira Clan Saga
as TokikoSpecial Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the...
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Spring Dreams
as Kazuko YasugiWhen a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their...
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Love Letter
as Michiko KubotaA sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love...
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Portrait of Madame Yuki
as Hamako AbeA young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that...
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A Billionaire
as Sute KagamiAn ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and...
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as Suzuko WatanabeBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Nowhere Man
as Lady who walksSukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a...
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Four Love Stories
as uncreditedOmnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
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The Rose on His Arm
as Keiko HaseIgnoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world...
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The Woman in the Rumor
as Yukiko MabuchiYukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises...
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The Paths of Two Maidens
as uncreditedMelodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
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The Bitch
as YukikoThe fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
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Daredevil in the Castle
as KobueDuring the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family...
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An Inlet of Muddy Water
as uncreditedA Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II
as YuhimeIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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The Garden of Women
as Akiko HayashinoA student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's...
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Ballad of a Workman
as ChiyoA demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to...
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Farewell to Dream
as Yôichi's older sister, ToyokoA coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi...
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Tokyo Fair Weather
as uncreditedThis is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading...
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Spring Awakens
as Kumiko HirobeSlice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
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as uncreditedIn Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for...
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The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Michie YoshiyamaA high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
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The Angry Street
as uncreditedThe Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including...
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Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky
as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wifeThis drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
as YuhimeIn the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan...
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Goryokaku
as uncreditedAfter the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former...
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Woman Unveiled
as uncreditedStory of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a...
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The Snow Flurry
as SakuraAfter surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
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Jakoman and Tetsu
as Girl at churchIn a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
as Yaeno KurumiyaBased on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military...
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Mother Country
as uncreditedIn 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife...
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Thus Another Day
as Yasuko SatôA father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in...
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The Eternal Rainbow
as ChieTwo men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job,...
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This Way, That Way
as uncreditedAn intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who...
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Elegy of the North
as Reiko HyodoA sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his...
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Whirlwind
as KikusatoSet at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the...
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Reunion
as uncreditedIf two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly...
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Delinquent Girl
as uncreditedA melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the...
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Okoge
as Women's clothing store managerA straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his...
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Beautiful Days
as uncreditedMasaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
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Sky Cannot Be This Blue
as Fumi KobayshiKantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been...
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Women in Prison
as Senko Minami, prisonerThe woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There...
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A Case of Honor
as uncreditedThe obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a...
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I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray...
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Yellow Crow
as Yasuko AshiharaIn this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master...
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Tabiji
as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national...
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Miyako no kaze
as 竹田静The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese...
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Inochi
as Takahara ChieThe drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train...
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Katsu Kaishu
as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "
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The Roads Men Travel
as Tatsuo's motherThe series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and...
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Pieces of Autumn
as uncreditedA drama that broke new ground with its realistic depiction of various problems within a very...
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