Yōko Sugi
Biography
Yōko Sugi (8 October 1928 – 15 May 2019) was a Japanese actress mainly active in the 1950s, who appeared in films of Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka and Tadashi Imai. Sugi was born on 28 October 1928 in what is now Bunkyō Ward, Tokyo, Japan. In 1947, she auditioned at Toho studio's "New Face" competition and received a contract. She debuted in Tadashi Imai's 1949 Aoi Sanmyaku, and performed in several other coming of age films. She repeatedly appeared in films of Mikio Naruse, including Repast, Husband and Wife, and Sound of the Mountain, and in Kinuyo Tanaka's Forever a Woman and The Moon Has Risen. In 1962, Sugi married an American, retired from the entertainment industry, and moved to the United States, where she worked as a public relations manager at the New Otani Hotel in Los Angeles. Occasionally returning to Japan, she appeared in films like Shirō Toyoda's The Twilight Years. She served as a Japanese Cultural Envoy to the United States for the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2005. Sugi moved back to Japan in 2017. She died of cancer on May 15, 2019.
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Movies (48)
Picture Bride
as Aunt Sode
1995
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
as Hostess Yoko
1980
The Twilight Years
as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
1973
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
The Path Under the Platanes
as Hisako Iwamoto
1959
Executive Chair
as Hideko Funada
1958
The Third President
1958
Assistant President
1958
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as Sayako Muromachi
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Women in Prison
as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
1956
Morishige, where are you going?
as Setsuko Mori
1956
A Wife's Heart
as Yumiko
1956
Forever a Woman
as Kinuko
1955
To Love and Forgive
1955
The First Kiss
1955
The Moon Has Risen
as Ayako
1955
Wedding Season
1954
君死に給うことなかれ
1954
Aku no tanoshisa
as Yukiko
1954
Five Sisters
1954
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954
Sound of the Mountain
as Tanizaki Hideko
1954
Girls in the Orchard
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953
Aijô ni tsuite
1953
Mr. Pu
1953
Husband and Wife
as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
1953
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Harumi
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Yamabiko School
1952
Mr. Lucky
1952
Wedding March
as Kanako
1951
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Repast
as Mitsuko Murata
1951
Wakôdo no uta
as Yoko
1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
祇園物語 春怨
1951
Wakai musumetachi
1951
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
Duel in the Sun
as Wife Chie
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Mariko Yamada
1950
A Woman's Face
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Shinko Terazawa
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Shinko Terazawa
1949
Drunken Angel
as Dancer (uncredited)
1948
