Yōko Sugi
Acting
Born: October 28, 1928 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: May 15, 2019 (aged 90)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
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Movies (52)
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
1956
Drunken Angel
Dancer (uncredited)
Picture Bride
Aunt Sode
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Forever a Woman
Kinuko
Women in Prison
Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
Wakai musumetachi
1951
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
Sound of the Mountain
Tanizaki Hideko
The Yamabiko School
1952
Executive Chair
Hideko Funada
Wedding Season
1954
A Wife's Heart
Yumiko
The Moon Has Risen
Ayako
Repast
Mitsuko Murata
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
Husband and Wife
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
The First Kiss
Rinko
Tokyo Sweetheart
Harumi
About Love
1953
Morishige, where are you going?
Setsuko Mori
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Shinko Terazawa
祇園物語 春怨
1951
The Third President
1958
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
Wedding March
Kanako
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Shinko Terazawa
Mr. Pu
1953
Sekidô matsuri
1951
Duel in the Sun
Wife Chie
Tokyo dayo Okkasan
1957
Moth Lamp
1953
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hostess Yoko
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Sayako Muromachi
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
A Guide to Marriage
1952
A Meeting of Youths
Kumiko
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Mariko Yamada
The Twilight Years
Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Five Sisters
1954
The Pleasures of Vice
Yukiko
A Woman's Face
1949
To Love and Forgive
1955
The Path Under the Platanes
Hisako Iwamoto
Girls in the Orchard
1953
Assistant President
1958
Mr. Lucky
1952
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953
