
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.

Kininaru Yomesan
TV • 1971

Drunken Angel
MOVIE • 1948

Sound of the Mountain
MOVIE • 1954

The Moon Has Risen
MOVIE • 1955

A Wife's Heart
MOVIE • 1956

Forever a Woman
MOVIE • 1955

Tokyo Sweetheart
MOVIE • 1952

Repast
MOVIE • 1951

Mr. Pu
MOVIE • 1953

Executive Chair
MOVIE • 1958

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
MOVIE • 1950

Youth of Heiji Senigata
MOVIE • 1953

Husband and Wife
MOVIE • 1953

The Blue Mountains: Part I
MOVIE • 1949

Mr. Lucky
MOVIE • 1952

Kin no tamago: Golden Girl
MOVIE • 1952

Jiyūgaoka fujin
MOVIE • 1960

The Twilight Years
MOVIE • 1973