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