Yōko Sugi
Date of birth: 1928-10-28
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ёко Суги, Йоко Суги
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.
Movie Credits
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952-05-14
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980-12-06
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades
Aijô ni tsuite
1953-05-14
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, b
Sekidô matsuri
1951-12-07
Wedding March
1951-12-28
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
Duel in the Sun
1950-03-07
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Repast
1951-11-23
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and
Sound of the Mountain
1954-01-15
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slight
The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949-07-19
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a s
Husband and Wife
1953-01-22
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba
Forever a Woman
1955-11-23
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her buddin
The Moon Has Risen
1955-01-08
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple sin
Assistant President
1958-01-03
Five Sisters
1954-06-08
The story of five sisters.
Wedding Season
1954-11-16
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and
Pursuit At Dawn
1950-06-01
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51)
A Woman's Face
1949-11-28
1949 drama film
祇園物語 春怨
1951-04-21
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful lov
Drunken Angel
1948-04-27
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos
Picture Bride
1995-05-05
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has
A Wife's Heart
1956-05-03
Kiyoko (Takamine Hideko) and her husband want to open a coffee shop. She becomes increasingly close
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950-01-22
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
The First Kiss
1955-09-21
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
Mr. Pu
1953-04-15
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954-04-27
The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur
The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949-07-26
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
The Twilight Years
1973-01-15
A woman looks after her father in law.
Tokyo Sweetheart
1952-07-15
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are
To Love and Forgive
1955-11-08
Wakai musumetachi
1951-04-07
Wakôdo no uta
1951-08-31
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957-07-09
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the fi
Women in Prison
1956-09-11
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is
The Yamabiko School
1952-05-01
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957-07-09
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the sec
Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953-08-19
君死に給うことなかれ
1954-10-20
Set at the end of World War II and after Japan's defeat, it is a melodrama about a man and a woman a
Girls in the Orchard
1953-09-15
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all t
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951-08-03
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was over
The Third President
1958-03-18
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
Mr. Lucky
1952-02-02
Morishige, where are you going?
1956-06-14
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961-02-02
1961 Japanese movie
Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960-09-18
1960 Japanese movie
Executive Chair
1958-04-08
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip
Four Asakusa Sisters
1952-08-07
Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.
Aku no tanoshisa
1954-10-05
Film directed by Yasuki Chiba.
The Path Under the Platanes
1959-01-09
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play.