Yōko Sugi
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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Films (59)
Picture Bride
1995 · Aunt Sode
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980 · Hostess Yoko
The Twilight Years
1973 · Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
The Path Under the Platanes
1959 · Hisako Iwamoto
Executive Chair
1958 · Hideko Funada
The Third President
1958
Assistant President
1958
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957 · Sayako Muromachi
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Here Is Tokyo, Mother
1957
Come Back Soon
1957
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
1957
Women in Prison
1956 · Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
In Case of One Woman
1956 · Ranko Fujita
Morishige, where are you going?
1956 · Setsuko Mori
A Wife's Heart
1956 · Yumiko
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
1956
Forever a Woman
1955 · Kinuko
To Love and Forgive
1955
The First Kiss
1955 · Rinko
The Moon Has Risen
1955 · Ayako
Wedding Season
1954
The Pleasures of Vice
1954 · Yukiko
Five Sisters
1954
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954
Young Eyes
1954
Sound of the Mountain
1954 · Tanizaki Hideko
Girls in the Orchard
1953
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953
Moth Lamp
1953
About Love
1953
Mr. Pu
1953
Gendai shojo
1953
Husband and Wife
1953 · Kikuko, Isaku's wife
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
A Guide to Marriage
1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952 · Harumi
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
The Yamabiko School
1952
Mr. Lucky
1952
A Meeting of Youths
1952 · Kumiko
Wedding March
1951 · Kanako
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Repast
1951 · Mitsuko Murata
Wakôdo no uta
1951 · Yoko
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
1950 · Wife Chie
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 · Mariko Yamada
A Woman's Face
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949 · Shinko Terazawa
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949 · Shinko Terazawa
Drunken Angel
1948 · Dancer (uncredited)
