Yōko Sugi
Acting
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
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moviePicture Bride
1995
Aunt Sode
movieHito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980
Hostess Yoko
movieThe Twilight Years
1973
Mrs. Kihara (widow)
movieThe Path Under the Platanes
1959
Hisako Iwamoto
movieExecutive Chair
1958
Hideko Funada
movieA Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
Sayako Muromachi
movieWomen in Prison
1956
Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
movieMorishige, where are you going?
1956
Setsuko Mori
movieA Wife's Heart
1956
Yumiko
movieForever a Woman
1955
Kinuko
movieSound of the Mountain
1954
Tanizaki Hideko
movieHusband and Wife
1953
Kikuko, Isaku's wife
movieWedding March
1951
Kanako
movieRepast
1951
Mitsuko Murata
movieDuel in the Sun
1950
Wife Chie
movieConduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950
Mariko Yamada
movieThe Blue Mountains: Part II
1949
Shinko Terazawa
movieThe Blue Mountains: Part I
1949
Shinko Terazawa
movieDrunken Angel
1948
Dancer (uncredited)