Yōko Sugi
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- October 28, 1928
- Died
- May 15, 2019 (aged 90)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Filmography
Picture Bride
Movie · as Aunt Sode
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Movie · as Hostess Yoko
The Twilight Years
Movie · as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Kininaru Yomesan
TV · 2 eps
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Movie
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Movie
The Path Under the Platanes
Movie · as Hisako Iwamoto
Assistant President
Movie
The Third President
Movie
Executive Chair
Movie · as Hideko Funada
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Movie · as Sayako Muromachi
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Movie
Here Is Tokyo, Mother
Movie
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Movie
Come Back Soon
Movie
A Wife's Heart
Movie · as Yumiko
Women in Prison
Movie · as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
Morishige, where are you going?
Movie · as Setsuko Mori
In Case of One Woman
Movie · as Ranko Fujita
Everyone's Sweetheart
Movie
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
Movie
Forever a Woman
Movie · as Kinuko
The Moon Has Risen
Movie · as Ayako
The First Kiss
Movie · as Rinko
To Love and Forgive
Movie
Sound of the Mountain
Movie · as Tanizaki Hideko
Five Sisters
Movie
Wedding Season
Movie
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Movie
The Pleasures of Vice
Movie · as Yukiko
Young Eyes
Movie
About Love
Movie
Husband and Wife
Movie · as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
Mr. Pu
Movie
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Movie
Girls in the Orchard
Movie
Moth Lamp
Movie
Gendai shojo
Movie
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Movie
Tokyo Sweetheart
Movie · as Harumi
The Yamabiko School
Movie
Mr. Lucky
Movie
Four Asakusa Sisters
Movie
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie
A Meeting of Youths
Movie · as Kumiko
A Guide to Marriage
Movie
Sekidô matsuri
Movie
Wedding March
Movie · as Kanako
Repast
Movie · as Mitsuko Murata
祇園物語 春怨
Movie
Wakai musumetachi
Movie
Wakôdo no uta
Movie · as Yoko
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Movie
Duel in the Sun
Movie · as Wife Chie
Pursuit At Dawn
Movie
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Movie · as Mariko Yamada
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Movie · as Shinko Terazawa
A Woman's Face
Movie
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Movie · as Shinko Terazawa
Drunken Angel
Movie · as Dancer (uncredited)