Yōko Sugi

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

Kininaru Yomesan

Drunken Angel

Repast

Youth of Heiji Senigata

Forever a Woman

Sound of the Mountain

Mr. Pu

Girls in the Orchard

All Movies (53)

• Picture Bride1995 · as Aunt Sode
• Hito Hata: Raise the Banner1980 · as Hostess Yoko
• The Twilight Years1973 · as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
• Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi1961
• Jiyūgaoka fujin1960
• The Path Under the Platanes1959 · as Hisako Iwamoto
• Executive Chair1958 · as Hideko Funada
• The Third President1958
• Assistant President1958
• A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 21957 · as Sayako Muromachi
• A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 11957
• Women in Prison1956 · as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
• In Case of One Woman1956 · as Ranko Fujita
• Morishige, where are you going?1956 · as Setsuko Mori
• A Wife's Heart1956 · as Yumiko
• Forever a Woman1955 · as Kinuko
• To Love and Forgive1955
• The First Kiss1955 · as Rinko
• The Moon Has Risen1955 · as Ayako
• Wedding Season1954
• Aku no tanoshisa1954 · as Yukiko
• Five Sisters1954
• The Devil comes and plays the Flute1954
• Young Eyes1954
• Sound of the Mountain1954 · as Tanizaki Hideko
• Girls in the Orchard1953
• Youth of Heiji Senigata1953
• Moth Lamp1953
• Aijô ni tsuite1953
• Mr. Pu1953
• Husband and Wife1953 · as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
• Oka wa hanazakari1952
• A Guide to Marriage1952
• Four Asakusa Sisters1952
• Tokyo Sweetheart1952 · as Harumi
• Kin no tamago: Golden Girl1952
• The Yamabiko School1952
• Mr. Lucky1952
• A Meeting of Youths1952 · as Kumiko
• Wedding March1951 · as Kanako
• Sekidô matsuri1951
• Repast1951 · as Mitsuko Murata
• Wakôdo no uta1951 · as Yoko
• Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre1951
• 祇園物語　春怨1951
• Wakai musumetachi1951
• Pursuit At Dawn1950
• Duel in the Sun1950 · as Wife Chie
• Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka1950 · as Mariko Yamada
• A Woman's Face1949
• The Blue Mountains: Part II1949 · as Shinko Terazawa
• The Blue Mountains: Part I1949 · as Shinko Terazawa
• Drunken Angel1948 · as Dancer (uncredited)

All TV Shows (1)

• Kininaru Yomesan1971