
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.

女の暦

酔いどれ天使

乳房よ永遠なれ

東京の恋人

めし

山の音

妻の心

續 青い山脈

月は上りぬ

夫婦

石中先生行状記

プーサン

ピクチャーブライド

青い山脈

くちづけ

恍惚の人

女囚と共に

金の卵

Hito Hata: Raise the Banner

愛情について

赤道祭

結婚行進曲

白昼の決闘

社長三代記

結婚期

暁の追跡

女の顔

祇園物語 春怨

悪魔が来りて笛を吹く

朝霧

若い娘たち

わが胸に虹は消えず: 第二部

山びこ学校

わが胸に虹は消えず: 第一部

君死に給うことなかれ

天晴れ一番手柄 青春銭形平次

花の中の娘たち

戦後派お化け大会

続・社長三代記

ラッキーさん

森繁よ何処へ行く

自由ケ丘夫人

重役の椅子

浅草四人姉妹

悪の愉しさ

すずかけの散歩道

丘は花ざかり

気になる嫁さん