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.

Filmografi

Drunken Angel1948 · Dancer (uncredited)Repast1951 · Mitsuko MurataIn Case of One Woman1956 · Ranko FujitaThe First Love of a Cha Cha Girl1956 · Sanpei Mejiro Story: My Wife1957 · Come Back Soon1957 · Gendai shojo1953 · Everyone's Sweetheart1956 · To Love and Forgive1955 · Women in Prison1956 · Kayo Sagawa, prisonerOka wa hanazakari1952 · A Meeting of Youths1952 · KumikoForever a Woman1955 · KinukoThe Blue Mountains: Part II1949 · Shinko TerazawaYoung Eyes1954 · A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 11957 · Here Is Tokyo, Mother1957 · A Guide to Marriage1952 · Wakai musumetachi1951 · Wakôdo no uta1951 · YokoThe Moon Has Risen1955 · AyakoSound of the Mountain1954 · Tanizaki HidekoTokyo Sweetheart1952 · HarumiMoth Lamp1953 ·