Yōko Sugi
Actor
- Born
- October 28, 1928 · Tokyo, Japan
- Died
- May 15, 2019 (age 90)
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.
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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
Drunken Angel
April 27, 1948
Sound of the Mountain
January 15, 1954
Repast
November 23, 1951
Forever a Woman
November 23, 1955
The Moon Has Risen
January 8, 1955
Picture Bride
May 5, 1995
A Wife's Heart
May 3, 1956
Husband and Wife
January 22, 1953
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
January 22, 1950
The Blue Mountains: Part II
July 26, 1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
July 19, 1949
Tokyo Sweetheart
July 15, 1952
Acting59
- 1995Picture Bride as Aunt Sode
- 1980Hito Hata: Raise the Banner as Hostess Yoko
- 1973The Twilight Years as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
- 1961Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
- 1960Jiyūgaoka fujin
- 1959The Path Under the Platanes as Hisako Iwamoto
- 1958Executive Chair as Hideko Funada
- 1958The Third President
- 1958Assistant President
- 1957A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2 as Sayako Muromachi
- 1957