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name: "Yoshiko Kuga"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/yoshiko-kuga"
fi1m_id: "yoshiko-kuga"
imdb_id: "nm0473984"
tmdb_id: 82873
wikidata_id: "Q2698639"
roles: []
born: "21 January 1931"
died: "9 June 2024"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-28T20:51:36.779880+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Yoshiko Kuga

## Identity

Yoshiko Kuga

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/yoshiko-kuga
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** yoshiko-kuga
- **IMDb ID:** nm0473984
- **TMDB ID:** 82873
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2698639
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kuga, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2698639, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473984/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82873

Actor. Born 21 January 1931 in Ushigome, Japon. Died 9 June 2024.

## Details

- **Born:** 21 January 1931, Ushigome, Japon
- **Died:** 9 June 2024
- **Also known as:** Kuga Yoshiko
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshiko_Kuga, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2698639, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473984/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82873

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## Biography

Yoshiko Kuga (also credited as Kuga Yoshiko) was a Japanese actress. Born Haruko Koga on 21 January 1931 in Tokyo, she died on 9 June 2024.

She joined Toho studios in 1946 while at Gakushuin Junior High School and made her screen debut in 1947 in the omnibus film *Four Love Stories*. In the 1950s she worked independently, appearing in productions for Shochiku directed by Keisuke Kinoshita and in films by Kenji Mizoguchi (*The Woman in the Rumor*, 1954), Yasujirō Ozu (*Equinox Flower*, 1958) and Tadashi Imai (*An Inlet of Muddy Water*, 1953). She also appeared in *Drunken Angel* (1948), *The Idiot* (1951), *Good Morning* (1959) and *Cruel Story of Youth* (1960). From the 1970s she worked mainly in television and on stage.

Kuga was married to actor Akihiko Hirata from 1961 until his death in 1984. She played the Prime Minister's Wife in *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, wikizilla.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989), Fi1m 76, as Prime Minister's Wife — [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-vs-biollante.md)

## Complete filmography (96)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Heroic Age* (2007), series, Mechanical Designer
- *As the River Flows* (2000), as Yuki Shiokawa
- *The Girl Who Leapt Through Time* (1997), as Michie Yoshiyama
- *Tokyo Fair Weather* (1997), Actor
- *119* (1994), Actor
- *Sky Cannot Be This Blue* (1993), as Fumi Kobayshi
- *Okoge* (1992), as Women's clothing store manager
- *Nowhere Man* (1991), as Lady who walks
- *Godzilla vs. Biollante* (1989), as Prime Minister's Wife — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/godzilla-vs-biollante.md)
- *Four Days of Snow and Blood* (1989), as Suzuko Watanabe
- *Goryokaku* (1988), Actor
- *長七郎江戸日記スペシャル　千姫有情　母ありき* (1988), series, Actor
- *Miyako no kaze* (1986), series, as 竹田静
- *Inochi* (1986), series, as Takahara Chie
- *The Roads Men Travel* (1976), series, as Tatsuo's mother
- *Katsu Kaishu* (1974), series, as Onobu (Kaishu's mother)
- *Pieces of Autumn* (1973), series, Actor
- *Through Days and Months* (1969), as Matsuko's Mother
- *Samurai Banners* (1969), Actor
- *Tabiji* (1967), series, as 室伏はる子（伊東はる子）
- *Ane to imôto* (1965), as Yoshie Matsumoto
- *Whirlwind* (1964), as Kikusato
- *To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2* (1964), as Yaeno Kurumiya
- *Umineko ga tonde* (1962), Actor
- *Ballad of a Workman* (1962), as Chiyo
- *Mother Country* (1962), Actor
- *Haitoku no mesu* (1961), as Nobuko Sato
- *Moonlight in the Rain* (1961), Actor
- *Zero Focus* (1961), as Teiko Uhara
- *Hijō no otoko* (1961), Actor
- *Daredevil in the Castle* (1961), as Kobue
- *Cruel Story of Youth* (1960), as Yuki
- *Spring Dreams* (1960), as Kazuko Yasugi
- *Thus Another Day* (1959), as Yasuko Satô
- *Good Morning* (1959), as Setsuko Arita
- *The Snow Flurry* (1959), as Sakura
- *The Eternal Rainbow* (1958), as Chie
- *Equinox Flower* (1958), as Fumiko Mikami
- *Beyond the Seasonal Wind* (1958), Actor
- *Woman Unveiled* (1958), Actor
- *Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II* (1958), as Yuhime
- *Elegy of the North* (1957), as Reiko Hyodo
- *Yagyu Secret Scrolls* (1957), as Yuhime
- *Yellow Crow* (1957), as Yasuko Ashihara
- *A Case of Honor* (1957), Actor
- *The Rose on His Arm* (1956), as Keiko Hase
- *Women in Prison* (1956), as Senko Minami, prisoner
- *Farewell to Dream* (1956), as Yôichi's older sister, Toyoko
- *Mune yori mune ni* (1955), as Harue Kawazoe
- *Tomorrow I'll Be a Fire-Tree* (1955), as Reiko
- *Taira Clan Saga* (1955), as Tokiko
- *Bride in the Kitchen* (1955), Actor
- *If Indeed One Loves* (1955), as Yumiko (segment 3)
- *Beautiful Days* (1955), as Sakurako
- *Tomorrow's Happiness* (1955), as Tomiko
- *Brotherly Love* (1954), Actor
- *Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky* (1954), as Hiroko, Ryoichi's wife
- *A Billionaire* (1954), as Sute Kagami
- *The Pleasures of Vice* (1954), as Yasuyo Uematsu
- *The Woman in the Rumor* (1954), as Yukiko Mabuchi
- *The Garden of Women* (1954), as Akiko Hayashino
- *Autumn Interlude* (1954), as Setsuko Fushimi
- *Shinzōyaburi no oka* (1954), Actor
- *Love Letter* (1953), as Michiko Kubota
- *An Inlet of Muddy Water* (1953), Actor
- *To the Ends of the Earth* (1953), Actor
- *Brother and Sister* (1953), as San
- *Reunion* (1953), Actor
- *Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru* (1953), Actor
- *This Way, That Way* (1952), Actor
- *The Paths of Two Maidens* (1952), Actor
- *Byakuran kōran* (1952), Actor
- *I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki* (1952), Actor
- *Gunrō no machi* (1952), as 宇和島見奈子
- *Honoo no hada* (1951), Actor
- *Dorei no machi* (1951), Actor
- *The Bitch* (1951), as Yukiko
- *Enoshima Elegy* (1951), Actor
- *The Idiot* (1951), as Ayako
- *Kyūjō hiroba* (1951), Actor
- *Golden Beast* (1950), as Kozue Takenaka
- *Portrait of Madame Yuki* (1950), as Hamako Abe
- *Escape Between Midnight and Dawn* (1950), Actor
- *Guntō nanban-sen* (1950), Actor
- *The Angry Street* (1950), Actor
- *Till We Meet Again* (1950), as Keiko Ono
- *Tsuki no shussen* (1950), as 荻原静江
- *Rinchi* (1949), as Kuwako
- *Akireta musumetachi* (1949), Actor
- *Hakuchō wa kanashikarazuya* (1949), Actor
- *Jakoman and Tetsu* (1949), as Girl at church
- *Delinquent Girl* (1949), Actor
- *My Love on the Other Side of the Mountain* (1948), as Shizu
- *Drunken Angel* (1948), as Schoolgirl
- *Spring Awakens* (1947), as Kumiko Hirobe
- *Four Love Stories* (1947), Actor

## Gallery

- ![「ポートレート 久我美子」 (1950)](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-060ae35f0df9.png) 「ポートレート 久我美子」 (1950) — 秋山庄太郎, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Portrait%2C_Kuga_Yoshiko_-_April_1950_-_Akiyama_Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D.png/1280px-Portrait%2C_Kuga_Yoshiko_-_April_1950_-_Akiyama_Sh%C5%8Dtar%C5%8D.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Yoshiko Kuga](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-9dc6f1948bc2.jpg) Yoshiko Kuga — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Yoshiko_Kuga_530406_Scan10007.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Yoshiko Kuga. taken in 1954.](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-cffd06e969c1.jpg) Yoshiko Kuga. taken in 1954. — 産業経済新聞社（Sankei Shinbun Co., Ltd.）, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Kuga-Yoshiko-1.jpg/1280px-Kuga-Yoshiko-1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![『青春残酷物語』（1960年）](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-1897abdbfdab.jpg) 『青春残酷物語』（1960年） — キネマ旬報社, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Kinema-Junpo-1961-January-special-4.jpg/1280px-Kinema-Junpo-1961-January-special-4.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Yoshiko Kuga](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-9327bd75bad2.jpg) Yoshiko Kuga — Image via TMDB
- ![From left: Ineko Arima, Fujiko Yamamoto and Yoshiko Kuga in 1958 Japanese movie Equinox Flower](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-0f92c271cdd3.jpg) From left: Ineko Arima, Fujiko Yamamoto and Yoshiko Kuga in 1958 Japanese movie Equinox Flower — Directed by en:Yasujirō Ozu, produced by en:Shochiku, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Higanbana.jpg/1280px-Higanbana.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Yoshiko Kuga and Masayuki Mori in Koibumi (恋文) directed by Kinuyo Tanaka - 1953](https://film.one/media/person/4095962/gallery-71ce101c4ae1.jpg) Yoshiko Kuga and Masayuki Mori in Koibumi (恋文) directed by Kinuyo Tanaka - 1953 — Shintōhō, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Koibumi_%281953%29.jpg/1280px-Koibumi_%281953%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Kinuyo Tanaka Award 1995: Kinuyo Tanaka Award (won)
- Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress 1957: Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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