Yōko Sugi
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.
53 acting credits
Acting · 53
Drunken Angel
1948
Kininaru Yomesan
1971
Sound of the Mountain
1954
A Wife's Heart
1956
Repast
1951
Mr. Pu
1953
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
Forever a Woman
1955
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949
Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953
Picture Bride
1995
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
The Moon Has Risen
1955
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Husband and Wife
1953
The First Kiss
1955
Duel in the Sun
1950
Mr. Lucky
1952
Assistant President
1958
Executive Chair
1958
Five Sisters
1954
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
Girls in the Orchard
1953
祇園物語 春怨
1951
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
The Twilight Years
1973
The Third President
1958
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
Wedding Season
1954
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954
Wedding March
1951
Aijô ni tsuite
1953
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
To Love and Forgive
1955
A Woman's Face
1949
Women in Prison
1956
Wakôdo no uta
1951
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
The Yamabiko School
1952
Wakai musumetachi
1951
Aku no tanoshisa
1954
Moth Lamp
1953
The Path Under the Platanes
1959
Young Eyes
1954
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
A Meeting of Youths
1952
In Case of One Woman
1956