
Acting
Born October 28, 1928 · Tokyo, Japan
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.

Picture Bride
1995

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980

The Twilight Years
1973
Kyūsenman 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
1956

Morishige, where are you going?
1956

A Wife's Heart
1956

Forever a Woman
1955

To Love and Forgive
1955

The First Kiss
1955

The Moon Has Risen
1955

Wedding Season
1954

君死に給うことなかれ
1954

Aku no tanoshisa
1954

Five Sisters
1954

The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954

Sound of the Mountain
1954

Girls in the Orchard
1953

Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953

Aijô ni tsuite
1953

Mr. Pu
1953

Husband and Wife
1953

Oka wa hanazakari
1952

Four Asakusa Sisters
1952

Tokyo Sweetheart
1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952

The Yamabiko School
1952

Mr. Lucky
1952

Wedding March
1951

Sekidô matsuri
1951

Repast
1951
Wakôdo no uta
1951

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951

祇園物語 春怨
1951

Wakai musumetachi
1951

Pursuit At Dawn
1950

Duel in the Sun
1950

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950

A Woman's Face
1949

The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949

The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949

Drunken Angel
1948