Yōko Sugi
Known for: Acting
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
Film
Drunken Angel
Dancer (uncredited)
1948
Film
Wakai musumetachi
1951
Film
The Yamabiko School
1952
Film
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Film
Women in Prison
Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
1956
Film
Picture Bride
Aunt Sode
1995
Film
Forever a Woman
Kinuko
1955
Film
The Moon Has Risen
Ayako
1955
Film
A Wife's Heart
Yumiko
1956
Film
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Shinko Terazawa
1949
Wakôdo no uta
Yoko
1951
Film
Sound of the Mountain
Tanizaki Hideko
1954
Film
Repast
Mitsuko Murata
1951
Film
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
In Case of One Woman
Ranko Fujita
1956
Film
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
Film
Tokyo Sweetheart
Harumi
1952
Series
Kininaru Yomesan
1971
Film
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
Film
Executive Chair
Hideko Funada
1958
Film
Mr. Lucky
1952
Film
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953
Film
Mr. Pu
1953
Film
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
Film
Husband and Wife
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
1953
Film
The First Kiss
Rinko
1955
Film
A Guide to Marriage
1952
Film
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Mariko Yamada
1950
Film
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hostess Yoko
1980
Young Eyes
1954
Film
The Third President
1958
Film
The Path Under the Platanes
Hisako Iwamoto
1959
Film
Duel in the Sun
Wife Chie
1950
Film
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
Film
Moth Lamp
1953
Film
A Meeting of Youths
Kumiko
1952
Film
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
Film
Wedding Season
1954
Film
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954
Film
Assistant President
1958
Film
The Twilight Years
Mrs. Kihara (widow)
1973
Film
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Film
Five Sisters
1954
Film
The Pleasures of Vice
Yukiko
1954
Film
About Love
1953
Film
To Love and Forgive
1955
Film
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Sayako Muromachi
1957
Film
Wedding March
Kanako
1951
Film
A Woman's Face
1949
Film
Girls in the Orchard
1953
Film
Morishige, where are you going?
Setsuko Mori
1956
Film
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Shinko Terazawa
1949
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
Film
祇園物語 春怨
1951
Gendai shojo
1953