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.
Filmography
Cast Credits
No Blood Relation
Character: Masako, Atsumi's wife
MOVIE • 1932
Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
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MOVIE • 1932
The Willows of Ginza
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MOVIE • 1932
ABC Lifeline
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MOVIE • 1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
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MOVIE • 1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
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MOVIE • 1931
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
Character: Futaba Uesugi
MOVIE • 1930
The Father and His Son
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MOVIE • 1929
The Model of New Women
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MOVIE • 1929
Symphony of Youth
Character: Nobuko Tomura
MOVIE • 1928
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
Character: Sayoko (Shōwa chapter)
MOVIE • 1928
Junange
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MOVIE • 1926
Useless Button
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MOVIE • 1926
Young Master
Character: Mitsuko Haneda
MOVIE • 1926
Fallen Samurai
Character: Yoshie
MOVIE • 1925
Love's Snare
Character: Sister Okoto
MOVIE • 1925