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