Yōko Sugi
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.
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
(Hostess Yoko)
About Love
Sekidô matsuri
Wedding March
(Kanako)
Duel in the Sun
(Wife Chie)
Repast
(Mitsuko Murata)
Sound of the Mountain
(Tanizaki Hideko)
The Blue Mountains: Part I
(Shinko Terazawa)
Husband and Wife
(Kikuko, Isaku's wife)
Forever a Woman
(Kinuko)
The Moon Has Risen
(Ayako)
Assistant President
Five Sisters
Wedding Season
Pursuit At Dawn
A Woman's Face
祇園物語 春怨
Drunken Angel
(Dancer (uncredited))
Picture Bride
(Aunt Sode)
A Wife's Heart
(Yumiko)
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
(Mariko Yamada)
The First Kiss
(Rinko)
Mr. Pu
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
The Blue Mountains: Part II
(Shinko Terazawa)
The Twilight Years
(Mrs. Kihara (widow))
Tokyo Sweetheart
(Harumi)
To Love and Forgive
Wakai musumetachi
Wakôdo no uta
(Yoko)
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
(Sayako Muromachi)
Women in Prison
(Kayo Sagawa, prisoner)
The Yamabiko School
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Girls in the Orchard
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
The Third President
Mr. Lucky
Morishige, where are you going?
(Setsuko Mori)
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Executive Chair
(Hideko Funada)
Four Asakusa Sisters
The Pleasures of Vice
(Yukiko)
The Path Under the Platanes
(Hisako Iwamoto)
Oka wa hanazakari
In Case of One Woman
(Ranko Fujita)
A Meeting of Youths
(Kumiko)
Young Eyes
Moth Lamp
A Guide to Marriage
Gendai shojo
Everyone's Sweetheart
Tokyo dayo Okkasan
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Kininaru Yomesan