Yōko Sugi
ActingYōko 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
Drunken Angel
Dancer (uncredited)
A Wife's Heart
Yumiko
Tokyo Sweetheart
Harumi
Repast
Mitsuko Murata
Forever a Woman
Kinuko
Sound of the Mountain
Tanizaki Hideko
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Shinko Terazawa
Executive Chair
Hideko Funada
Husband and Wife
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
Filmography — Acting
Drunken Angel
Dancer (uncredited)
A Wife's Heart
Yumiko
Tokyo Sweetheart
Harumi
Repast
Mitsuko Murata
Forever a Woman
Kinuko
Sound of the Mountain
Tanizaki Hideko
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Shinko Terazawa
Executive Chair
Hideko Funada
Husband and Wife
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
Mr. Pu
Five Sisters
Mr. Lucky
Sekidô matsuri
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Mariko Yamada
The Third President
Picture Bride
Aunt Sode
Duel in the Sun
Wife Chie
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Wedding Season
Assistant President
The First Kiss
The Moon Has Risen
Ayako
Girls in the Orchard
Pursuit At Dawn
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Sayako Muromachi
Youth of Heiji Senigata
Four Asakusa Sisters
Morishige, where are you going?
Setsuko Mori
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Women in Prison
Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
The Twilight Years
Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Aijô ni tsuite
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Wedding March
Kanako
祇園物語 春怨
Aku no tanoshisa
Yukiko
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Shinko Terazawa
The Yamabiko School
Wakôdo no uta
Yoko
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
A Woman's Face
The Path Under the Platanes
Hisako Iwamoto
To Love and Forgive
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Hostess Yoko
Oka wa hanazakari
