Image of Yukiko Tsukuba

Yukiko Tsukuba

1906-06-10 Tokyo, Japan

Image of Yukiko Tsukuba

Biografia

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.

Películas

新四谷怪談 1932-07-29
銀座の柳 1932-04-22
生さぬ仲 Masako, Atsumi's wife 1932-12-16
愛よ人類と共にあれ 前篇 日本篇 1931-04-17
愛よ人類と共にあれ 後篇 米国篇 1931-04-17
生活線ABC 1931-12-11
若者よなぜ泣くか Futaba Uesugi 1930-11-15
親父とその子 1929-09-13
新女性鑑 1929-06-14
輝く昭和 Sayoko (Shōwa chapter) 1928-11-17
青春交響楽 Nobuko Tomura 1928-12-31
お坊ちゃん Mitsuko Haneda 1926-05-01
受難華 1926-12-12
カラボタン 1926-08-30
落武者 Yoshie 1925-12-01
恋の捕縄 Sister Okoto 1925-12-01