Cast
Yōko Sugi
Acting
Cast
Yōko Sugi
Known for
Acting
Born
1928-10-28
From
Tokyo, Japan
Died
2019-05-15
Also known as Ёко Суги, Йоко Суги
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.
Drunken Angel
as Dancer (uncredited)
Picture Bride
as Aunt Sode
Forever a Woman
as Kinuko
Sound of the Mountain
as Tanizaki Hideko
Executive Chair
as Hideko Funada
The Moon Has Risen
as Ayako
Repast
as Mitsuko Murata
Wakôdo no uta
as Yoko
A Wife's Heart
as Yumiko
Tokyo Sweetheart
as Harumi
In Case of One Woman
as Ranko Fujita
Women in Prison
as Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Mr. Pu
The Blue Mountains: Part I
as Shinko Terazawa
Duel in the Sun
as Wife Chie
Husband and Wife
as Kikuko, Isaku's wife
The Blue Mountains: Part II
as Shinko Terazawa
Wakai musumetachi
Pursuit At Dawn
The Yamabiko School
Mr. Lucky
Five Sisters
The Third President
Wedding Season
The First Kiss
as Rinko
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
The Twilight Years
as Mrs. Kihara (widow)
Youth of Heiji Senigata
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
as Sayako Muromachi
Wedding March
as Kanako
Assistant President
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
as Mariko Yamada
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Morishige, where are you going?
as Setsuko Mori
Girls in the Orchard
A Woman's Face
Sekidô matsuri
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
as Hostess Yoko
To Love and Forgive
Aijô ni tsuite
Four Asakusa Sisters
Aku no tanoshisa
as Yukiko
Oka wa hanazakari
祇園物語 春怨
Young Eyes
Moth Lamp
The Path Under the Platanes
as Hisako Iwamoto
A Meeting of Youths
as Kumiko