Yōko Sugi

Yōko Sugi

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.

Tentang

Stage Name: Yōko Sugi

Peran: Acting

Reputasi: 1.0936

Jenis Kelamin: Perempuan

Tanggal Lahir: 1928-10-28

Lokasi Lahir: Tokyo, Japan

Riwayat Perfilman

1995

Picture Bride

Aunt Sode

1973

The Twilight Years

Mrs. Kihara (widow)

1958

Executive Chair

Hideko Funada

1956

Women in Prison

Kayo Sagawa, prisoner

1956

A Wife's Heart

Yumiko

1955

Forever a Woman

Kinuko

1954

Aku no tanoshisa

Yukiko

1954

Sound of the Mountain

Tanizaki Hideko

1953

Husband and Wife

Kikuko, Isaku's wife

1952

Tokyo Sweetheart

Harumi

1951

Wedding March

Kanako

1951

Repast

Mitsuko Murata

1950

Duel in the Sun

Wife Chie

1949

The Blue Mountains: Part II

Shinko Terazawa

1949

The Blue Mountains: Part I

Shinko Terazawa

1948

Drunken Angel

Dancer (uncredited)