Yōko Sugi
Acting · Born Oct 28, 1928 · Died May 15, 2019 (90) · 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.
Known for
Films
Picture Bride
19956.5
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980
The Twilight Years
19737.5
Jiyūgaoka fujin
196010.0
The Path Under the Platanes
19597.0
Executive Chair
1958
The Third President
195810.0
Assistant President
195810.0
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
19579.0
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
19564.0
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
A Wife's Heart
19566.9
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
1956
Forever a Woman
19557.5
To Love and Forgive
1955
The First Kiss
19556.4
The Moon Has Risen
19556.9
Wedding Season
1954
The Pleasures of Vice
1954
Five Sisters
19548.0
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
19547.0
Sound of the Mountain
19547.4
Girls in the Orchard
19538.0
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
19537.0
Moth Lamp
1953
About Love
195310.0
Mr. Pu
19536.5
Husband and Wife
19536.9
Oka wa hanazakari
19529.0
A Guide to Marriage
1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
19528.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
19529.0
The Yamabiko School
1952
Mr. Lucky
195210.0
A Meeting of Youths
1952
Wedding March
195110.0
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Repast
19517.6
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
195110.0
祇園物語 春怨
1951
Wakai musumetachi
1951
Pursuit At Dawn
19508.0
Duel in the Sun
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
19506.9
A Woman's Face
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
19497.1
The Blue Mountains: Part I
19496.4
Drunken Angel
19487.6
