Yoshiko Kuga
Popularity:7.731
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1931-01-21
Place of Birth:Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan
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Also Known As:Kuga Yoshiko, Ёсико Куга
The Idiot (1951)
Kameda, who has been in an asylum on Okinawa, travels to Hokkaido. There he becomes involved with two women, Taeko and Ayako. Taeko comes to love...
Drunken Angel (1948)
Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...
Equinox Flower (1958)
Wataru Hirayama's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares that she is in love with a musician and is...
Good Morning (1959)
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells...
The Woman in the Rumor (1954)
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
Taira Clan Saga (1955)
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Portrait of Madame Yuki (1950)
A young woman takes up her new job as the servant of a noblewoman and soon discovers that underneath her facade of luxury lies great unhappiness.
Goryokaku (1988)
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...
Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese...
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.
Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Zero Focus (1961)
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II (1958)
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Brother and Sister (1953)
The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...
Somewhere Beneath the Wide Sky (1954)
This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.
The Snow Flurry (1959)
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
Beautiful Days (1955)
Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.
Farewell to Dream (1956)
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...
A Billionaire (1954)
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
The Eternal Rainbow (1958)
Two men at an ironworks encounter roadblocks: the first does not have the grades to get a job, while the other finds himself falling for a co-worker.
The Garden of Women (1954)
A student at a woman's university takes a controversial action against the school's old-fashioned doctrines.
Thus Another Day (1959)
A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...
Spring Dreams (1960)
When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...
I'll Not Forget the Song of Nagasaki (1952)
A Japanese soldier who died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Hawaii entrusted Henry Gray with an unfinished score and promised to complete it.
Daredevil in the Castle (1961)
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Spring Awakens (1947)
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
Elegy of the North (1957)
A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.
Samurai Banners (1969)
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Four Love Stories (1947)
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
Love Letter (1953)
A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.
Yellow Crow (1957)
In this Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, director Heinosuke Gosho -- a master chronicler of Japanese middle-class life -- presents...
An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)
A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself...
Tokyo Fair Weather (1997)
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
119 (1994)
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years. Each day passes eventlessly......
As the River Flows (2000)
2000 live-action Japanese film.
Okoge (1992)
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
The Paths of Two Maidens (1952)
Melodrama about two sisters with different mothers.
Nowhere Man (1991)
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...
Till We Meet Again (1950)
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
The Angry Street (1950)
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...
The Rose on His Arm (1956)
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Ballad of a Workman (1962)
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1997)
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
Whirlwind (1964)
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeated Toyotomi clan as they cope with the post...
Akireta musumetachi (1949)
Japanese comedy film.
Four Days of Snow and Blood (1989)
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
Beyond the Seasonal Wind (1958)
Japanese drama film.
Sky Cannot Be This Blue (1993)
Kantarou Kobayashi is an ordinary businessman who has multiple troubles on hand. He's been having an affair with a woman working in the same company,...
Woman Unveiled (1958)
Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.
Delinquent Girl (1949)
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city. It is...
This Way, That Way (1952)
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
The Bitch (1951)
The fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.
Mother Country (1962)
In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...
Women in Prison (1956)
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
A Case of Honor (1957)
The obstinate black market trader Okyo lives together with her son Seitaro, who works as a mechanic for a bus company. She also looks after her son's...
Jakoman and Tetsu (1949)
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2 (1964)
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier. He joins the army and winds up sent...
Reunion (1953)
If two clouds go away, the eyes of a maiden who gets wet in tears, Tsukaman Aise who earnestly wished, and the two who cried under the harsh trials...
The Roads Men Travel (1976)
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a...
Miyako no kaze (1986)
The 37th NHK Asadora. A woman from Kyoto moves to Nara and runs a ryokan (a traditional Japanese inn) and then enters the fashion industry.
Tabiji (1967)
The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national railroad living through 50 years of modern history...
Katsu Kaishu (1974)
Katsu Kaishū deals with end of the Edo period. Based on Kan Shimozawa's novels "Katsu Kaishū "
Inochi (1986)
The drama begins in August 1945, three days after the end of the Pacific war. A freight train completely jam-packed with passengers heads for Aomori...
Pieces of Autumn (1973)
A drama that broke new ground with its realistic depiction of various problems within a very ordinary family.
Pieces of Autumn (1970)
When the Golden Race invited other races to join them in the stars, three sentient races answered their call. The Goldens called them the Bronze,...