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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8029 |
| Birthday | 1928-10-28 |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Also Known As | Ёко Суги, Йоко Суги, |
1952
Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
9/1
Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...
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Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
1980
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
0/0
The film looks back at the life of a man named Oda and other Japanese Americans through the decades as they face great challenges and joys living in t...
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Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
1953
Aijô ni tsuite
10/1
Michiko Asakura was married to the eldest son of the Sakuma family, an unsealed family in Shinshu, but died from her husband and returned to her paren...
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Aijô ni tsuite
1951
Sekidô matsuri
0/0
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Sekidô matsuri
1951
Wedding March
10/1
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
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Wedding March
1950
Duel in the Sun
0/0
A film by Kiyoshi Saeki
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Duel in the Sun
1951
Repast
7.552/48
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
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Repast
1954
Sound of the Mountain
7.356/66
An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.
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Sound of the Mountain
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part I
6.375/8
Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young ma...
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The Blue Mountains: Part I
1953
Husband and Wife
6.889/9
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
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Husband and Wife
1955
Forever a Woman
7.645/31
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her success...
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Forever a Woman
1955
The Moon Has Risen
6.92/25
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved in...
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The Moon Has Risen
1958
Assistant President
10/1
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Assistant President
1954
Five Sisters
8/4
The story of five sisters.
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Five Sisters
1954
Wedding Season
0/0
Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a num...
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Wedding Season
1950
Pursuit At Dawn
8/1
This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe...
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Pursuit At Dawn
1949
A Woman's Face
0/0
1949 drama film
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A Woman's Face
1951
祇園物語 春怨
0/0
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the backdro...
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祇園物語 春怨
1948
Drunken Angel
7.607/309
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the...
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Drunken Angel
1995
Picture Bride
6.5/25
Riyo, an orphaned 17-year old, sails from Yokohama to Hawaii in 1918 to marry Matsuji, a man she has never met. Hoping to escape a troubled past and s...
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Picture Bride
1956
A Wife's Heart
6.917/12
A young woman tries to raise money to open her own coffee shop. She arranges a loan when her rigid family won't help and then her husband becomes jeal...
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A Wife's Heart
1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
6.889/9
Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.
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Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
1955
The First Kiss
6.4/5
Portmanteau film about young lovers.
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The First Kiss
1953
Mr. Pu
6.667/3
A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.
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Mr. Pu
1954
The Devil comes and plays the Flute
7/1
The film depicts the exploits of Kindaichi Kosuke, who pursues a series of serial murders that occur one after another along with the terrifying melod...
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The Devil comes and plays the Flute
1949
The Blue Mountains: Part II
7.111/9
Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.
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The Blue Mountains: Part II
1973
The Twilight Years
7.5/2
A woman looks after her father in law.
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The Twilight Years
1952
Tokyo Sweetheart
8/6
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys...
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Tokyo Sweetheart
1955
To Love and Forgive
0/0
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To Love and Forgive
1951
Wakai musumetachi
0/0
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Wakai musumetachi
1951
Wakôdo no uta
0/0
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Wakôdo no uta
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
9/1
An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
1956
Women in Prison
4/3
The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had...
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Women in Prison
1952
The Yamabiko School
0/0
A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.
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The Yamabiko School
1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
0/0
An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.
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A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 1
1953
Youth of Heiji Senigata
7/1
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Youth of Heiji Senigata
1953
Girls in the Orchard
8/1
Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...
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Girls in the Orchard
1951
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
10/1
In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer fest...
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Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1958
The Third President
10/1
The fifth entry in the Company President Series
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The Third President
1952
Mr. Lucky
10/1
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Mr. Lucky
1956
Morishige, where are you going?
0/0
A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow, i...
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Morishige, where are you going?
1961
Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
0/0
1961 Japanese movie
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Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi
1960
Jiyūgaoka fujin
10/1
1960 Japanese movie
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Jiyūgaoka fujin
1958
Executive Chair
0/0
In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss. Thr...
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Executive Chair
1952
Four Asakusa Sisters
0/0
Love stories of four sisters from a small restaurant in Asakusa.
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Four Asakusa Sisters
1954
Aku no tanoshisa
0/0
Film directed by Yasuki Chiba.
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Aku no tanoshisa
1959
The Path Under the Platanes
7/1
Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play.
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The Path Under the Platanes
1952
Oka wa hanazakari
9/1
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