Known For
Acting
Known Credits
16
Gender
Female
Birthday
June 10, 1906 (120 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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.
| 1932 | No Blood Relationas Masako, Atsumi's wife | |
| 1932 | Shin Yotsuya Ghost Storyas | |
| 1932 | The Willows of Ginzaas | |
| 1931 | ABC Lifelineas | |
| 1931 | Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1as | |
| 1931 | Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2as | |
| 1930 | Youth, Why Do You Cry?as Futaba Uesugi | |
| 1929 | The Father and His Sonas | |
| 1929 | The Model of New Womenas | |
| 1928 | Symphony of Youthas Nobuko Tomura | |
| 1928 | The Glory of the Shōwa Eraas Sayoko (Shōwa Chapter) | |
| 1926 | Junangeas | |
| 1926 | Useless Buttonas | |
| 1926 | Young Masteras Mitsuko Haneda | |
| 1925 | Love's Snareas Sister Okoto | |
| 1925 | Fallen Samuraias Yoshie |