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Yōko Sugi
Tokyo, Japan
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 o…
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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
Movies and shows, newest first
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1995
Picture Bride
Movie Aunt Sode
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1980
Hito Hata: Raise the Banner
Movie Hostess Yoko
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1973
The Twilight Years
Movie Mrs. Kihara (widow)
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1971
Kininaru Yomesan
TV show
- 1961
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1960
Jiyūgaoka fujin
Movie
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1959
The Path Under the Platanes
Movie Hisako Iwamoto
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1958
Executive Chair
Movie Hideko Funada
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1958
The Third President
Movie
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1958
Assistant President
Movie
- 1957
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1957
A Rainbow Plays in My Heart: Part 2
Movie Sayako Muromachi
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1957
Here Is Tokyo, Mother
Movie
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1957
Come Back Soon
Movie
- 1957
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1956
Women in Prison
Movie Kayo Sagawa, prisoner
More credits
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1956
In Case of One Woman
Movie Ranko Fujita
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1956
Morishige, where are you going?
Movie Setsuko Mori
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1956
A Wife's Heart
Movie Yumiko
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1956
Everyone's Sweetheart
Movie
- 1956
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1955
Forever a Woman
Movie Kinuko
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1955
To Love and Forgive
Movie
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1955
The First Kiss
Movie Rinko
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1955
The Moon Has Risen
Movie Ayako
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1954
Wedding Season
Movie
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1954
The Pleasures of Vice
Movie Yukiko
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1954
Five Sisters
Movie
- 1954
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1954
Young Eyes
Movie
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1954
Sound of the Mountain
Movie Tanizaki Hideko
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1953
Girls in the Orchard
Movie
- 1953
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1953
Moth Lamp
Movie
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1953
About Love
Movie
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1953
Mr. Pu
Movie
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1953
Gendai shojo
Movie
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1953
Husband and Wife
Movie Kikuko, Isaku's wife
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1952
Oka wa hanazakari
Movie
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1952
A Guide to Marriage
Movie
