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Yukiko Tsukuba

Known For
Acting

Known Credits
16

Gender
Female

Birthday
June 10, 1906 (120 years old)

Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan

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

Acting

1932No Blood Relationas Masako, Atsumi's wife
1932Shin Yotsuya Ghost Storyas
1932The Willows of Ginzaas
1931ABC Lifelineas
1931Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1as
1931Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2as
1930Youth, Why Do You Cry?as Futaba Uesugi
1929The Father and His Sonas
1929The Model of New Womenas
1928Symphony of Youthas Nobuko Tomura
1928The Glory of the Shōwa Eraas Sayoko (Shōwa Chapter)
1926Junangeas
1926Useless Buttonas
1926Young Masteras Mitsuko Haneda
1925Love's Snareas Sister Okoto
1925Fallen Samuraias Yoshie

Production