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Tag Archives: Yoshiko Kuga
Older Brother, Younger Sister (1953) Mikio Naruse

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata Read More »
Ballad of a Worker (1962) Keisuke Kinoshita, Hideko Takamine

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Read More »
The Snow Flurry (1959) Keisuke Kinoshita, Keiko Kishi, Ineko Arima, Yoshiko Kuga

Set in a rural village in the Shinshu region, this melodrama about lovers of different social Read More »
Zero Focus / Zero no shôten (1961) Yoshitarô Nomura, Yoshiko Kuga, Hizuru Takachiho, Ineko Arima

After Teiko’s new husband disappears on a business trip, she discovers Read More »
Love Letter / Koibumi (1953) Kinuyo Tanaka, Masayuki Mori, Yoshiko Kuga, Jûkichi Uno

This valiant melodrama is the brilliant debut as a moviemaker of the great Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka Read More »
Beautiful days / Uruwashiki saigetsu (1955) Masaki Kobayashi, Keiji Sada, Yoshiko Kuga, Isao Kimura

A romantic drama depicting the lives of two generations of a family who run a florist shop in Tokyo. Read More »
The Woman of Rumour / Uwasa no onna (1954) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani, Yoshiko Kuga

Hatsuko Umabuchi is a widow who runs a prosperous geisha house in present-day Kyoto. Read More »
Ninjitsu AKA Yagyû bugeichô (1957) Hiroshi Inagaki, Toshirô Mifune, Yoshiko Kuga, Kyôko Kagawa

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which Read More »
Elegy of the North / Banka (1957) Heinosuke Gosho, Yoshiko Kuga, Masayuki Mori, Mieko Takamine

A young woman falls for a middle aged business man, but things get complicated when she also starts having feelings for his wife. Read More »