Acting
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.
Filmography
Picture Bride
Film · 1995
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Film · 1980
The Twilight Years
Film · 1973
Kininaru Yomesan
Series · 1971
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
Film · 1961
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Film · 1960
The Path Under the Platanes
Film · 1959
Assistant President
Film · 1958
The Third President
Film · 1958
Executive Chair
Film · 1958
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Film · 1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
Film · 1957
Here Is Tokyo, Mother
Film · 1957
Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife
Film · 1957
Come Back Soon
Film · 1957
A Wife's Heart
Film · 1956
Women in Prison
Film · 1956
Morishige, where are you going?
Film · 1956
In Case of One Woman
Film · 1956
Everyone's Sweetheart
Film · 1956
The First Love of a Cha Cha Girl
Film · 1956
Forever a Woman
Film · 1955
The Moon Has Risen
Film · 1955
The First Kiss
Film · 1955
To Love and Forgive
Film · 1955
Sound of the Mountain
Film · 1954
Five Sisters
Film · 1954
Wedding Season
Film · 1954
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
Film · 1954
The Pleasures of Vice
Film · 1954
Young Eyes
Film · 1954
About Love
Film · 1953
Husband and Wife
Film · 1953
Mr. Pu
Film · 1953
Brilliant! The First Detective: Zenigata Heiji in His Youth
Film · 1953
Girls in the Orchard
Film · 1953
Moth Lamp
Film · 1953
Gendai shojo
Film · 1953
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
Film · 1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
Film · 1952
The Yamabiko School
Film · 1952
Mr. Lucky
Film · 1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
Film · 1952
Oka wa hanazakari
Film · 1952
A Meeting of Youths
Film · 1952
A Guide to Marriage
Film · 1952
Sekidô matsuri
Film · 1951
Wedding March
Film · 1951
Repast
Film · 1951
祇園物語 春怨
Film · 1951
Wakai musumetachi
Film · 1951
Wakôdo no uta
Film · 1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
Film · 1951
Duel in the Sun
Film · 1950
Pursuit At Dawn
Film · 1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Film · 1950
The Blue Mountains: Part I
Film · 1949
A Woman's Face
Film · 1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
Film · 1949
Drunken Angel
Film · 1948