Yukiko Tsukuba
Born 1906 (age 70) · Tokyo, Japan
Appears in 16 titles

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

No Blood Relation
7.3
No Blood Relation
1932
as Masako, Atsumi's wife
ABC Lifeline
6.7
ABC Lifeline
1931
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 1
Love, Be with Humanity: Part 2
Shin Yotsuya Ghost Story
Useless Button
1926
Junange
1926
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
Youth, Why Do You Cry?
1930
as Futaba Uesugi
Fallen Samurai
Fallen Samurai
1925
as Yoshie
Love's Snare
1925
as Sister Okoto
Young Master
Young Master
1926
as Mitsuko Haneda
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
The Glory of the Shōwa Era
1928
as Sayoko (Shōwa Chapter)
Symphony of Youth
1928
as Nobuko Tomura