Yōko Sugi
Acting • Born 1928-10-28 – Died 2019-05-15
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.
Filmography
50 credits
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie • 1952
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Movie • 1980
Hostess Yoko
Aijô ni tsuite
Movie • 1953
Sekidô matsuri
Movie • 1951
Wedding March
Movie • 1951
Kanako
Duel in the Sun
Movie • 1950
Wife Chie
Repast
Movie • 1951
Mitsuko Murata
Sound of the Mountain
Movie • 1954
Tanizaki Hideko
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Movie • 1949
Shinko Terazawa
Husband and Wife
Movie • 1953
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
Forever a Woman
Movie • 1955
Kinuko
The Moon Has Risen
Movie • 1955
Ayako
Assistant President
Movie • 1958
Five Sisters
Movie • 1954
Wedding Season
Movie • 1954
Pursuit At Dawn
Movie • 1950
A Woman's Face
Movie • 1949
祇園物語 春怨
Movie • 1951
Drunken Angel
Movie • 1948
Dancer (uncredited)
Picture Bride
Movie • 1995
Aunt Sode
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
Yumiko
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Movie • 1950
Mariko Yamada
The First Kiss
Movie • 1955
Mr. Pu
Movie • 1953
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Movie • 1954
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Movie • 1949
Shinko Terazawa
The Twilight Years
Movie • 1973
Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Tokyo Sweetheart
Movie • 1952
Harumi
To Love and Forgive
Movie • 1955
Wakai musumetachi
Movie • 1951
Wakôdo no uta
Movie • 1951
Yoko
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Movie • 1957
Sayako Muromachi
Women in Prison
Movie • 1956
Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
The Yamabiko School
Movie • 1952
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Movie • 1957
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Movie • 1953
君死に給うことなかれ
Movie • 1954
Girls in the Orchard
Movie • 1953
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Movie • 1951
The Third President
Movie • 1958
Mr. Lucky
Movie • 1952
Morishige, where are you going?
Movie • 1956
Setsuko Mori
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Movie • 1961
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Movie • 1960
Executive Chair
Movie • 1958
Hideko Funada
Four Asakusa Sisters
Movie • 1952
Aku no tanoshisa
Movie • 1954
Yukiko
The Path Under the Platanes
Movie • 1959
Hisako Iwamoto
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie • 1952
Kininaru Yomesan
TV • 1971