Yōko Sugi
Acting
- Born:
- 1928-10-28
- Died:
- 2019-05-15
- Place of birth:
- Tokyo, Japan
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
Filmography
Picture Bride
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
The Twilight Years
Kininaru Yomesan
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Jiyūgaoka fujin
The Path Under the Platanes
Executive Chair
The Third President
Assistant President
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Here Is Tokyo, Mother
Come Back Soon
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Women in Prison
In Case of One Woman
Morishige, where are you going?
A Wife's Heart
Everyone's Sweetheart
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
Forever a Woman
To Love and Forgive
The First Kiss
The Moon Has Risen
Wedding Season
The Pleasures of Vice
Five Sisters
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Young Eyes
Sound of the Mountain
Girls in the Orchard
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Moth Lamp
About Love
Mr. Pu
Gendai shojo
Husband and Wife
Oka wa hanazakari
A Guide to Marriage
Four Asakusa Sisters
Tokyo Sweetheart
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
The Yamabiko School
Mr. Lucky
A Meeting of Youths
Wedding March
Sekidô matsuri
Repast
Wakôdo no uta
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
祇園物語 春怨
Wakai musumetachi
Pursuit At Dawn
Duel in the Sun
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
A Woman's Face
The Blue Mountains: Part II
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Drunken Angel