Yoshiko Kuga (
Yoshiko Kuga | |
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Kuga in 1953 | |
Born | Haruko Koga 21 January 1931 |
Died | 9 June 2024 | (aged 93)
Occupation | Actress |
Years active | 1947–2000 |
Spouse |
Life and career
editKuga was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her father, Michiaki Koga (
In 1946, while still attending Gakushuin Junior High School, she became an actress for Toho studios.[2] In June 1946, Toho had sponsored a search for "new faces", choosing Kuga as one of 48 new actresses and actors from 4,000 applicants.[3] In 1947, she made her debut as one of the lead actresses in the omnibus movie Four Love Stories (
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.[6]
Selected filmography
editFilm
edit- 1948: Drunken Angel (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
- 1950: Until We Meet Again (dir. Tadashi Imai)
- 1951: The Idiot (dir. Akira Kurosawa)
- 1953: Older Brother, Younger Sister (dir. Mikio Naruse)
- 1953: An Inlet of Muddy Water (dir. Tadashi Imai)
- 1953: Love Letter (dir. Kinuyo Tanaka)
- 1954: The Woman in the Rumor (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
- 1954: The Garden of Women (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
- 1955: Shin Heike Monogatari (dir. Kenji Mizoguchi)
- 1956: The Rose on His Arm (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
- 1956: Farewell to Dream (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
- 1957: Yellow Crow (dir. Heinosuke Gosho)
- 1957: Elegy of the North (dir. Heinosuke Gosho)
- 1958: Equinox Flower (dir. Yasujirō Ozu)
- 1959: The Snow Flurry (dir. Keisuke Kinoshita)
- 1959: Good Morning (dir. Yasujirō Ozu)
- 1960: Cruel Story of Youth (dir. Nagisa Ōshima)
- 1961: Zero Focus (dir. Yoshitarō Nomura)
- 1961: The Story of Osaka Castle (dir. Hiroshi Inagaki)
- 1964: Whirlwind (dir. Hiroshi Inagaki)[7]
- 1989: Godzilla vs. Biollante (dir. Kazuki Ohmori) (cameo)
- 1997: Toki o Kakeru Shōjo (dir. Haruki Kadokawa)
Television
edit- 1974–1975: Karei-naru Ichizoku (NET)[8]
Awards
edit- 1954: Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress
- 1956: Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress
- 1994: Kinuyo Tanaka Memorial Award at Mainichi Film Awards[9]
- 1995: The Golden Glory Award
References
edit- ^
霞 会館 華族 家系 大成 編輯 委員 会 , ed. (September 1996).平成 新 修 旧 華族 家系 大成 (Heisei Shinshu Former Chinese Family Taisei) (in Japanese). Vol. 1. Tokyo: Kasumi Kaikan. p. 588. ISBN 978-4-64203670-2. Retrieved November 21, 2018. - ^ "
久我 美子 (Yoshiko Kuga)". kotobank.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 February 2021. - ^ a b Hirano, Kyoko (1992). Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 1-56098-157-1.
- ^ González-López, Irene; Smith, Michael, eds. (2018). Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0969-8.
- ^ "
久我 美子 女優 (Yoshiko Kuga, actress)". NHK (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 February 2021. - ^
女優 久我 美子 さん死去 93歳 誤 嚥 性 肺炎 第 1期 東宝 ニューフェイス 「3時 のあなた」司会 も (in Japanese) - ^ "
士魂 魔道 大 竜巻 ". eiga.com. Retrieved October 4, 2021. - ^ "
華麗 なる一族 ". Family Gekijyo. Retrieved August 27, 2021. - ^ "
田中 絹代 賞 とは". Tanaka Kinuyo Memorial Association. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
External links
edit- Yoshiko Kuga at IMDb
- Yoshiko Kuga at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)