Yōko Sugi

Known for ActingBorn 1928-10-28Died 2019-05-15Tokyo, 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Jiyūgaoka fujin

Assistant President

The Third President

Aijô ni tsuite

Mr. Lucky

Wedding March

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

Oka wa hanazakari

Five Sisters

Girls in the Orchard

Tokyo Sweetheart

Pursuit At Dawn

Forever a Woman

The Twilight Years

Drunken Angel

Repast

Sound of the Mountain

The Blue Mountains: Part II

The Path Under the Platanes

The Devil comes and plays the Flute

Youth of Heiji Senigata

A Wife's Heart

The Moon Has Risen

Picture Bride

Husband and Wife

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

Mr. Pu

The First Kiss

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Women in Prison

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

Kininaru Yomesan

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi

Executive Chair

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

Morishige, where are you going?

In Case of One Woman

To Love and Forgive

Wedding Season

Aku no tanoshisa

Young Eyes

Moth Lamp

The Yamabiko School

Four Asakusa Sisters

A Meeting of Youths

A Guide to Marriage