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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.
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23 November 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 in.
22 March 1949
A melodramatic love story, a would-be apprenticeship between the titular bad girl and the optimistic scholar returning from the big city.
28 October 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.
16 December 1989
After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese government uses the cells to create a new bio-weapon, ANEB (Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria).
12 May 1959
Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do exactly that--refusing to utter a word.
11 October 1949
Japanese comedy film.
16 May 1961
A home drama about a mother and her three daughters, based on the novel by Fumiko Hayashi.
03 January 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 disaster for the clan.
19 August 1950
A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him�
03 January 1961
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle.
20 December 1949
Japanese noir.
12 August 1962
A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income.
01 April 1947
Omnibus of love stories from 1947 directed by famous directors, featuring big stars.
19 March 1961
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns.
30 December 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 north where they actually started a sovereign nation that was recognized by more than one European country.
29 April 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 soon.
01 March 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.
27 April 1948
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.
20 February 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, but she does lots of eccentric things.
08 November 1997
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
03 January 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 battle chaos and the persecution of the Shogun's army.
03 June 1960
A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
02 November 1991
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river.
03 January 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 friends.
23 May 1951
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama.
22 November 1954
An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.
05 July 1955
The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir.
26 May 1992
A straight young woman living in Tokyo becomes involved in the lives of a gay man and his married lover.
14 January 1952
There are male and female students working part-time jobs in the city center while facing the harsh realities of society as they struggle to pay for tuition and living expenses, and there are those who prey on these students.
01 January 1964
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog soldier.
17 April 1956
A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor.
17 June 1989
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military.
18 October 1997
This is a biographical film about the late Yoko Araki, who was the wife of Japan's leading photographer, Nobuyoshi Araki.
20 June 1954
After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.
10 June 1958
Japanese drama film.
23 December 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 to stay with them.
23 November 1954
A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their individual problems.
21 October 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.
01 September 1957
Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
03 January 1959
After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.
05 November 1994
In Harari-cho, a small and quiet bayside town by the sea, the firemen have not seen a fire for nearly twenty years.
04 November 1950
On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room.
19 August 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 will threaten the marriage prospects of the younger sister San, in her cash-strapped family.
27 September 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 their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man.
07 September 1958
Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage.
13 December 1953
Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko.
21 March 1950
Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.
14 April 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 disaster for the clan.
29 April 2000
2000 live-action Japanese film.
14 November 1956
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
27 March 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.
25 May 1955
A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a Tokyo florist shop.
14 May 1950
University students Sudo and Mori make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash.
21 September 1955
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
15 January 1958
A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the husband.
02 November 1947
Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.
05 October 1954
Film directed by Yasuki Chiba, based on the novel of the same name by Tatsuzou Ishikawa.
24 August 1951
Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a man named Taichi Tachikawa and sold into prostitution in a red-light district.
