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Yōko Sugi
Acting

Yōko Sugi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1928-10-28,Tokyo, Japan
Gender
Female
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

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl

9

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1952-05-14

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

0

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1980-12-06

10

Aijô ni tsuite
1953-05-14

0

Sekidô matsuri
1951-12-07

10

Wedding March
1951-12-28

Duel in the Sun

0

Duel in the Sun
1950-03-07

7.5

Repast
1951-11-23

Sound of the Mountain

7.351

Sound of the Mountain
1954-01-15

The Blue Mountains: Part I

6.375

The Blue Mountains: Part I
1949-07-19

Husband and Wife

6.889

Husband and Wife
1953-01-22

Forever a Woman

7.7

Forever a Woman
1955-11-23

The Moon Has Risen

6.9

The Moon Has Risen
1955-01-08

Assistant President

10

Assistant President
1958-01-03

8

Five Sisters
1954-06-08

0

Wedding Season
1954-11-16

Pursuit At Dawn

8

Pursuit At Dawn
1950-06-01

0

A Woman's Face
1949-11-28

0

祇園物語　春怨
1951-04-21

7.6

Drunken Angel
1948-04-27

6.5

Picture Bride
1995-05-05

6.917

A Wife's Heart
1956-05-03

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

6.889

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1950-01-22

6.4

The First Kiss
1955-09-21

6.667

Mr. Pu
1953-04-15

The Devil comes and plays the Flute

7

The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1954-04-27

The Blue Mountains: Part II

7.111

The Blue Mountains: Part II
1949-07-26

The Twilight Years

7.5

The Twilight Years
1973-01-15

Tokyo Sweetheart

8

Tokyo Sweetheart
1952-07-15

To Love and Forgive

0

To Love and Forgive
1955-11-08

Wakai musumetachi

0

Wakai musumetachi
1951-04-07

0

Wakôdo no uta
1951-08-31

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2

9

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1957-07-09

Women in Prison

4

Women in Prison
1956-09-11

The Yamabiko School

0

The Yamabiko School
1952-05-01

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1

0

A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1957-07-09

Youth of Heiji Senigata

7

Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953-08-19

Girls in the Orchard

8

Girls in the Orchard
1953-09-15

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre

10

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951-08-03

The Third President

10

The Third President
1958-03-18

10

Mr. Lucky
1952-02-02

Morishige, where are you going?

0

Morishige, where are you going?
1956-06-14

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi

0

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1961-02-02

Jiyūgaoka fujin

10

Jiyūgaoka fujin
1960-09-18

Executive Chair

0

Executive Chair
1958-04-08

Four Asakusa Sisters

0

Four Asakusa Sisters
1952-08-07

Aku no tanoshisa

0

Aku no tanoshisa
1954-10-05

The Path Under the Platanes

7

The Path Under the Platanes
1959-01-09

Oka wa hanazakari

9

Oka wa hanazakari
1952-11-18

In Case of One Woman

0

In Case of One Woman
1956-08-22

A Meeting of Youths

0

A Meeting of Youths
1952-01-17

0

Young Eyes
1954-02-24

0

Moth Lamp
1953-07-10

Kininaru Yomesan

0

Kininaru Yomesan
1971-10-06