Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 10, 1906
Died
Jun 08, 1977
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Credits
16 titles
Yukiko Tsukuba
Biography
Yukiko Tsukuba (June 10, 1906 – June 8, 1977) was a Japanese actress on stage, in silent films, and in early sound films. She was also the All-Japan women's billiards champion in 1929. Tsukuba was born in Tokyo. She trained as a geisha, and became an internationally publicized beauty and film star while she was still in her teens. Tsukuba began her screen career at the Shochiku studio, working with directors including Yasujiro Shimazu, Hiroshi Shimizu, Yoshinobu Ikeda, Heinosuke Gosho, Kiyohiko Ushihara, Buntaro Futagawa, Torajiro Saito, and Mikio Naruse. She was dubbed "the Mary Pickford of Japan" in a 1926 American newspaper. With actor Tsuzuya Moroguchi, Tsukuba started a short-lived production company, in 1927. Tsukuba married businessman and politician Jinkichi Terada [ja] in 1942. Her husband died in 1976, and she died in 1977, from stomach cancer, at the age of 70, in Setagaya.
Known For
Filmography
No Blood Relation
Masako, Atsumi's wife
Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
The Willows of Ginza
ABC Lifeline
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
Futaba Uesugi
The Father and His Son
The Model of New Women
Symphony of Youth
Nobuko Tomura
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
Sayoko (Shōwa Chapter)
Junange
Useless Button
Young Master
Mitsuko Haneda
Love's Snare
Sister Okoto
Fallen Samurai
Yoshie