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