Yōko Sugi
Known for: Acting
Born: October 28, 1928
Died: May 15, 2019
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
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.
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Filmography
58 movies · 1 TV show, newest first
6.5
Picture Bride
1995
NR
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980
7.5
The Twilight Years
1973
NR
Kininaru Yomesan
1971NR
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
10.0
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
7.0
The Path Under the Platanes
1959
NR
Executive Chair
1958
10.0
The Third President
1958
10.0
Assistant President
1958
9.0
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
NR
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
NR
Tokyo dayo Okkasan
1957
NR
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
1957
4.0
Women in Prison
1956NR
In Case of One Woman
1956
NR
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
6.9
A Wife's Heart
1956
NR
Everyone's Sweetheart
1956
NR
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
1956
7.6
Forever a Woman
1955
NR
To Love and Forgive
1955
6.4
The First Kiss
1955
6.9
The Moon Has Risen
1955
NR
Wedding Season
1954
NR
The Pleasures of Vice
1954
8.0
Five Sisters
1954
7.0
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954NR
Young Eyes
1954
7.4
Sound of the Mountain
1954
8.0
Girls in the Orchard
1953
7.0
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
1953
NR
Moth Lamp
1953
10.0
About Love
1953
6.5
Mr. Pu
1953NR
Gendai shojo
1953
6.9
Husband and Wife
1953
9.0
Oka wa hanazakari
1952
NR
A Guide to Marriage
1952
NR
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952
8.0
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952
9.0
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952
NR
The Yamabiko School
1952
10.0
Mr. Lucky
1952
NR
A Meeting of Youths
1952
10.0
Wedding March
1951
NR
Sekidô matsuri
1951
7.6
Repast
1951NR
Wakôdo no uta
1951
10.0
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
NR
祇園物語 春怨
1951
NR
Wakai musumetachi
1951
8.0
Pursuit At Dawn
1950
NR
Duel in the Sun
1950
6.9
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
NR
A Woman's Face
1949
7.1
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949
6.4
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949
7.6
Drunken Angel
1948