Native name 久我 美子 Years active 1947–2000 Nationality Japanese Name Yoshiko Kuga | Role Actress Occupation Actress TV shows Katsu Kaishu | |
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Full Name 久我 美子 (Haruko Koga) Born January 21, 1931 (age 93) ( 1931-01-21 ) Tokyo, Japan Spouse Akihiko Hirata (m. 1961–1984) Movies Cruel Story of Youth, Good Morning, Equinox Flower, The Idiot, Zero Focus Similar People Keiji Sada, Ineko Arima, Kinuyo Tanaka, Shin Saburi, Akihiko Hirata | ||
Other names 小野田 美子 (Haruko Onoda) | ||
Une femme dont on parle
Yoshiko Kuga (久我 美子, Kuga Yoshiko) (born January 21, 1931) is a Japanese actress.
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Biography and personal life
Kuga was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Michiaki Koga (久我通顕), was a marquis and a member of the House of Peers.
In 1946, when she was in her third year in Gakushuin Girls' Junior High School, she became an actress under exclusive contract with Toho. In 1947, she made her debut as one of the lead actresses in an omnibus movie Four Love Stories (四つの恋の物語, Yottsu no Koi no Monogatari).
In 1961, Kuga married Akihiko Hirata. They were known as a very harmonious couple until Hirata's death in 1984.
Awards
Filmography
Actress
2000
Kawa no nagare no you ni as
Yuki Shiokawa
1997
Toki o kakeru shôjo as
Michie Yoshiyama
1997
Tokyo biyori
1994
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1993
Sora ga konnani aoi wake ga nai as
Fumi Kobayshi
1992
Okoge
1991
Nowhere Man as
Lady who walks
1990
Bujinesuman no chichi yori musuko e no 30-tsuu no tegami (TV Series)
1989
Godzilla vs. Biollante as
Keiko Owada, Prime Minister's Representative
1989
Sora to umi wo koete (TV Movie) as
Takuya's mother
1989
Four Days of Snow and Blood as
Suzuko Watanabe
1986
Inochi (TV Series) as
Chie
- Episode #1.1 (1986) - Chie
1982
Kurumi no heya (TV Series)
1976
Hi no michi (TV Series)
1969
Hi mo tsuki mo as
Matsuko's Mother
1967
Tabiji (TV Series)
1966
Kaachan to 11-nin no kodomo as
Naruko, first daughter
1965
Ane to imôto as
Yoshie Matsumoto
1964
Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki as
Kikusato
1964
Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama as
Yaeno
1963
Shiawase no kane (TV Movie) as
Noriko Sômiya
1962
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Futari de aruita iku haru aki as
Chiyo
1962
Mother Country as
Sumi Goda
1961
Haitoku no mesu as
Nobuko Sato
1961
Moonlight in the Rain
1961
Zero Focus as
Teiko Uhara
1961
Hijô no otoko as
Yukiko
1961
Daredevil in the Castle as
Kobue
1960
Cruel Story of Youth as
Yuki, Makoto's elder
1960
Spring Dreams as
Kazuko Yasugi
1959
Thus Another Day as
Yasuko Satô
1959
Good Morning as
Setsuko Arita
1959
The Snow Flurry as
Sakura
1958
The Eternal Rainbow as
Chie Obita
1958
Equinox Flower as
Fumiko Mikami
1958
Kisetsufu no kanatani
1958
Onna de aru koto as
Sakae
1958
Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken as
Yuhime
1957
Northern Elegy as
Reiko Hyôdô
1957
Yagyû bugeichô as
Yuhime
1957
Behold Thy Son as
Yasuko Ashihara
1957
Righteousness
1956
Shin heike monogatari-shizuka to yoshitsune
1956
Taiyô to bara as
Keiko Hase
1956
Jôshû to tomo ni as
Senko Minami, prisoner
1956
Farewell to Dream as
Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
1955
Mune yori mune ni as
Harue Kawazoe
1955
Bandits of Yoshino
1955
Zoku: Shishi Maru Ippei
1955
Zoku shishi maru ippei
1955
Asunaro monogatari as
Reiko
1955
Okatte no hanayome
1955
Taira Clan Saga as
Tokiko
1955
Beautiful Days as
Sakurako
1955
Musuko no endan
1955
Ashita no kôfuku as
Tomiko
1955
Aisureba koso as
Yumiko (segment 3)
1954
Somewhere Under the Broad Sky as
Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
1954
A Billionaire as
Sute Kagami
1954
Aku no tanoshisa as
Yasuyo Uematsu
1954
The Woman of Rumour as
Yukiko Mabuchi
1954
The Garden of Women as
Akiko Hayashino
1954
Kaze tachinu as
Setsuko Fushimi
1954
Shinzô yaburi no oka
1953
Love Letter as
Michiko Kubota
1953
Nigorie as
O-Mine (Story 2)
1953
Older Brother, Younger Sister as
San
1953
Shi no tsuiseki
1953
Saikai
1953
Senkan Yamato
1953
Yôsei wa hana no nioi gasuru
1952
This Way, That Way
1952
Futatsu no shojo-sen
1952
Byakuran kôran
1952
Nagasaki no uta wa wasureji as
Makihara, Momoko
1952
Gunrô no machi
1951
Honoo no hada
1951
Mesu inu as
Yukiko
1951
Enoshima hika
1951
The Idiot as
Ayako
1951
Kyûjô hiroba
1950
Kuroi hana
1950
Ôgonjû as
Kozue Takenaka
1950
Portrait of Madame Yuki as
Hamako Abe
1950
Gozen reiji no shutugoku
1950
Guntô nambansen
1950
Tenpô ninki otoko: Tsumagoizaka no kettô
1950
The Angry Street as
Tsuneko Fukuda
1950
Shishi no wana
1950
Satsujinsha no kao as
Junko
1950
Till We Meet Again as
Ono Keiko
1950
Tsuki no shussen
1950
Zoku furyô shôjo
1949
Rinchi as
Kuwako
1949
The Shocked Girls
1949
Jakoman and Tetsu as
Girl at church
1949
The Lipstick Still Has Not Been Removed
1949
Bad Girl
1949
Bosu
1948
Drunken Angel as
Schoolgirl
1947
Spring Awakens as
Kumiko Hirobe
1947
Four Love Stories as
Yukiko (episode 1)
Soundtrack
1955
Beautiful Days ("Moonlight, mov.3")
Self
1977
Waga machi Mishima - 1977 nen no shôgen (Documentary short) as
Narrator (voice)
Archive Footage
2023
Compression (TV Series documentary)
- Compression Bonjour de Yasujiro Ozu (2023)
- Compression Fleurs d'équinoxe de Yasujiro Ozu (2023)
- Compression Contes Cruels de la Jeunesse de Nagisa Oshima (2023)
References
Yoshiko Kuga Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA