Yoshiko Kuga

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Yoshiko Kuga, 1952

Yoshiko Kuga ( Japanese 久 我 美 子 , Kuga Yoshiko , real name: Haruko Onoda ( 小野 田 美 子 ); born January 21, 1931 in Tokyo ) is a Japanese actress .

Life

The co-founders of the Ninjin Club: Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima and Yoshiko Kuga (1954)

Yoshiko Kuga was born Haruko Koga in Tokyo Prefecture in 1931. She belongs to the noble Koga family , her father Michiaki Koga was Kōshaku (margrave) and a member of the Kizokuin . Kuga attended Gakushuin Girls' Middle School, where she was discovered in 1946 and signed to Tōhō . Her first film appearance was in Yottsu no Koi no Monogatari the following year . At the beginning of her film career, she changed her name to Yoshiko Kuga (both names are spelled the same in Japanese).

To Yoshiko Kugas famous performances included leading roles in The Idiot alongside Setsuko Hara in 1951 and in nude youth she received in 1960. For her acting skills with the Mainichi Film Award in 1954 and the Blue Ribbon Award in 1956 two of Japan's most important film awards for their work. Kuga's best-known role in later years was that of the Prime Minister's representative in the 1989 monster film Godzilla, the Urgiant .

Because of her career choice, Kuga was disinherited early in her career by her grandfather, who considered an acting career dishonorable. She therefore changed her official name to Haruko Onoda, while still keeping her stage name. The actress was later accepted back into the Koga family, but without taking her old family name again. In 2000, she ended her acting career after more than seventy roles in films and television series.

In 1961 Yoshiko Kuga married the actor Akihiko Hirata , with whom she stayed together until his death in 1984.

Together with Keiko Kishi and Ineko Arima , she founded the Bungei Production Ninjin Club in 1954 to promote better acting quality in Japanese film . The production company was run by the three actresses themselves. Her most famous production is Masaki Kobayashi's horror - episode film Kwaidan (1964). The departure of Kishi and financial losses led to the collapse of the Ninjin Club in 1966.

Awards

Filmography (selection)

  • 1947: Four love stories ( Yottsu no koi no monogatari ) episode "First Love"
  • 1947: Awakening Spring ( Haru no mezame )
  • 1948: Angel of the Lost ( Yoidore Tenshi )
  • 1949: Jakoman and Tetsu ( Jakoman to Tetsu )
  • 1949: The Amazed Girls ( Akireta musume-tachi )
  • 1950: Until we meet again ( Mata au hi made )
  • 1950: Street in Rage ( Ikari no machi )
  • 1950: Portrait of Madame Yuki ( Yuki fujin ezu )
  • 1951: The Idiot ( Hakuchi )
  • 1953: brother and sister ( Ani Imōto )
  • 1953: Tainted Reputation ( Nigorie )
  • 1953: love letter ( Koibumi )
  • 1954: Riot of women ( Onna no sono )
  • 1954: A woman one speaks of ( Uwasa no onna )
  • 1954: The Billionaire ( Okuman choja )
  • 1954: Somewhere under the wide sky ( Kono hiroi sora no dokaka ni )
  • 1955: The beautiful days ( Uruwashiki saigetsu )
  • 1955: The Taira samurai clan ( Shin Heike monogatari )
  • 1955: The story of the tree of life ( Asunaro monogatari )
  • 1956: Farewell, Dream ( Yûyake-gumo )
  • 1956: The rose on the arm ( Taiyô to bara )
  • 1957: Yellow Crow ( Kiiroi karasu )
  • 1957: The Secret Scrolls ( Yagyû bugeichô )
  • 1957: Elegy ( Banka )
  • 1958: The Secret Scrolls, Part 2 ( Yagyû bugeichô: Sôryû hiken )
  • 1958: Summer blossoms ( Higanbana )
  • 1958: The Eternal Rainbow ( Kono ten no niji )
  • 1959: Snowstorm ( Kazabana )
  • 1959: Good morning ( Ohayō )
  • 1959: So on another day ( Kyô mo mata kakute ari nan )
  • 1960: Spring Dreams ( Haru no yume )
  • 1960: Naked Youth ( Seishun Zankoku Monogatari )
  • 1961: A daredevil in the castle ( Ôsaka-jô monogatari )
  • 1961: Zero sharpness ( Zero no shōten )
  • 1962: Our Years Together ( Futari de aruita iku haru aki )
  • 1964: Cyclone ( Shikonmado - Dai tatsumaki )
  • 1989: 226 - Four days of snow and blood ( 226 )
  • 1989: Godzilla, the original giant ( Gojira vs. Biorante )
  • 1989: A man fails ( Muno no hito )
  • 1992: Fag Hag ( Okoge )
  • 1994: 119 ( 119 )
  • 1997: Nice weather in Tokyo ( Tokyo biyori )
  • 1997: A girl overcomes time ( Toki o Kakeru Shōjo )

literature

  • Stuart Galbraith IV: The Toho Studios Story: A History and Complete Filmography . Scarecrow Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-4616-7374-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irene Gonzalez-Lopez: Tanaka Kinuyo: Nation, Stardom and Female Subjectivity Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2018, ISBN 978-1-4744-0970-4 , page 20.
personal data
SURNAME Kuga, Yoshiko
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 久 我 美 子 (Japanese); Onoda Haruko (real name); 小野 田美子 (real name, Japanese); Koga Haruko (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo Prefecture , Japan