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 movies · 1 shows
Picture Bride
1995·6.5
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980·0.0
The Twilight Years
1973·7.5
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961·0.0
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960·10.0
The Path Under the Platanes
1959·7.0
Executive Chair
1958·0.0
The Third President
1958·10.0
Assistant President
1958·10.0
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957·9.0
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957·0.0
Women in Prison
1956·4.0
In Case of One Woman
1956·0.0
Morishige, where are you going?
1956·0.0
A Wife's Heart
1956·6.9
Forever a Woman
1955·7.7
To Love and Forgive
1955·0.0
The First Kiss
1955·6.4
The Moon Has Risen
1955·6.9
Wedding Season
1954·0.0
Aku no tanoshisa
1954·0.0
Five Sisters
1954·8.0
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954·7.0
Young Eyes
1954·0.0
Sound of the Mountain
1954·7.4
Girls in the Orchard
1953·8.0
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953·7.0
Moth Lamp
1953·0.0
Aijô ni tsuite
1953·10.0
Mr. Pu
1953·6.7
Husband and Wife
1953·6.9
Oka wa hanazakari
1952·9.0
A Guide to Marriage
1952·0.0
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952·0.0
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952·8.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952·9.0
The Yamabiko School
1952·0.0
Mr. Lucky
1952·10.0
A Meeting of Youths
1952·0.0
Wedding March
1951·10.0
Sekidô matsuri
1951·0.0
Repast
1951·7.6
Wakôdo no uta
1951·0.0
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951·10.0
祇園物語 春怨
1951·0.0
Wakai musumetachi
1951·0.0
Pursuit At Dawn
1950·8.0
Duel in the Sun
1950·0.0
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950·6.9
A Woman's Face
1949·0.0
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949·7.1
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949·6.4
Drunken Angel
1948·7.6