Yōko Sugi
Acting
1928-10-28 · Tokyo, Japan
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
Picture Bride
1995 · Movie
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980 · Movie
The Twilight Years
1973 · Movie
Kininaru Yomesan
1971 · Series
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961 · Movie
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960 · Movie
The Path Under the Platanes
1959 · Movie
Executive Chair
1958 · Movie
The Third President
1958 · Movie
Assistant President
1958 · Movie
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957 · Movie
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957 · Movie
Tokyo dayo Okkasan
1957 · Movie
Women in Prison
1956 · Movie
In Case of One Woman
1956 · Movie
Morishige, where are you going?
1956 · Movie
A Wife's Heart
1956 · Movie
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956 · Movie
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
1956 · Movie
Forever a Woman
1955 · Movie
To Love and Forgive
1955 · Movie
The First Kiss
1955 · Movie
The Moon Has Risen
1955 · Movie
Wedding Season
1954 · Movie
The Pleasures of Vice
1954 · Movie
Five Sisters
1954 · Movie
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954 · Movie
Young Eyes
1954 · Movie
Sound of the Mountain
1954 · Movie
Girls in the Orchard
1953 · Movie
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953 · Movie
Moth Lamp
1953 · Movie
About Love
1953 · Movie
Mr. Pu
1953 · Movie
Gendai shojo
1953 · Movie
Husband and Wife
1953 · Movie
Oka wa hanazakari
1952 · Movie
A Guide to Marriage
1952 · Movie
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952 · Movie
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952 · Movie
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952 · Movie
The Yamabiko School
1952 · Movie
Mr. Lucky
1952 · Movie
A Meeting of Youths
1952 · Movie
Wedding March
1951 · Movie
Sekidô matsuri
1951 · Movie
Repast
1951 · Movie
Wakôdo no uta
1951 · Movie
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951 · Movie
祇園物語 春怨
1951 · Movie
Wakai musumetachi
1951 · Movie
Pursuit At Dawn
1950 · Movie
Duel in the Sun
1950 · Movie
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950 · Movie
A Woman's Face
1949 · Movie
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949 · Movie
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949 · Movie
Drunken Angel
1948 · Movie