Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1928-10-28
Day of Death
2019-05-15
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Yōko Sugi
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.
Filmography (52)
Picture Bride
1995
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980
The Twilight Years
1973Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960
The Path Under the Platanes
1959
Executive Chair
1958
The Third President
1958
Assistant President
1958
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957
Women in Prison
1956In Case of One Woman
1956
Morishige, where are you going?
1956
