
Yōko Sugi
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1928-10-28
Day of Death
2019-05-15 (90 years old)
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
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
Acting
(1995)
Picture Bride
as Aunt Sode
(1980)
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
as Hostess Yoko
(1973)
The Twilight Years
as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
(1961)
(1960)
(1958)
(1958)
(1958)
Executive Chair
as Hideko Funada
(1957)
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as Sayako Muromachi
(1957)
(1956)
A Wife's Heart
as Yumiko
(1956)
Women in Prison
as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
(1956)
Morishige, where are you going?
as Setsuko Mori
(1955)
Forever a Woman
as Kinuko
(1955)
The Moon Has Risen
as Ayako
(1955)
(1955)
(1954)
Sound of the Mountain
as Tanizaki Hideko
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1954)
(1953)
Husband and Wife
as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1953)
(1952)
(1952)
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Harumi
(1952)
(1952)
(1952)
(1951)
(1951)
Repast
as Mitsuko Murata
(1951)
(1951)
(1951)
Wakôdo no uta
as Yoko
(1951)
Wedding March
as Kanako
(1951)
(1950)
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Mariko Yamada
(1950)
Duel in the Sun
as Wife Chie
(1950)
(1949)
The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Shinko Terazawa
(1949)
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Shinko Terazawa
(1949)
(1948)
Drunken Angel
as Dancer (uncredited)