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.
Known For
Credits
- 1995 · Picture Bride as Aunt Sode
- 1980 · Hito Hata: Raise the Banner as Hostess Yoko
- 1973 · The Twilight Years as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
- 1971 · Kininaru Yomesan as
- 1961 · Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi as
- 1960 · Jiyūgaoka fujin as
- 1958 · Executive Chair as Hideko Funada
- 1958 · The Third President as
- 1958 · Assistant President as
- 1957 · A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1 as
- 1957 · A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 as Sayako Muromachi
- 1956 · Women in Prison as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
- 1956 · Morishige, where are you going? as Setsuko Mori
- 1956 · A Wife's Heart as Yumiko
- 1955 · Forever a Woman as Kinuko
- 1955 · To Love and Forgive as
- 1955 · The First Kiss as
- 1955 · The Moon Has Risen as Ayako
- 1954 · Wedding Season as
- 1954 · 君死に給うことなかれ as
- 1954 · Five Sisters as
- 1954 · The Devil comes and plays the Flute as
- 1954 · Sound of the Mountain as Tanizaki Hideko
- 1953 · Girls in the Orchard as
- 1953 · Youth of Heiji Senigata as
- 1953 · Aijô ni tsuite as
- 1953 · Mr. Pu as
- 1953 · Husband and Wife as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
- 1952 · Four Asakusa Sisters as
- 1952 · Tokyo Sweetheart as Harumi
- 1952 · Kin no tamago: Golden Girl as
- 1952 · The Yamabiko School as
- 1952 · Mr. Lucky as
- 1951 · Wedding March as Kanako
- 1951 · Sekidô matsuri as
- 1951 · Repast as Mitsuko Murata
- 1951 · Wakôdo no uta as Yoko
- 1951 · Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre as
- 1951 · 祇園物語 春怨 as
- 1951 · Wakai musumetachi as
- 1950 · Pursuit At Dawn as
- 1950 · Duel in the Sun as Wife Chie
- 1950 · Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka as Mariko Yamada
- 1949 · A Woman's Face as
- 1949 · The Blue Mountains: Part II as Shinko Terazawa
- 1949 · The Blue Mountains: Part I as Shinko Terazawa
- 1948 · Drunken Angel as Dancer (uncredited)