Yōko Sugi

was a Japanese actress mainly active in the 1950s, who appeared in films of Mikio Naruse, Kinuyo Tanaka and Tadashi Imai.

Biography Sugi was born on 28 October 1928 in what is now Bunkyō ward, Tokyo, Japan. In 1945 she graduated from a Japanese high school in Shanghai.

After returning to Japan in 1947, Sugi auditioned at Toho studio's "New Face" competition and received a contract. She gave her debut in Tadashi Imai's 1949 Aoi sanmyaku, and performed in several other coming of age films. and Sound of the Mountain, and in Kinuyo Tanaka's The Eternal Breasts and The Moon Has Risen.

Sugi moved back to Japan in 2017. She died on 15 May 2019 of colon cancer in Tokyo.

Filmography (selected) Aoi sanmyaku (1949) Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950) Repast (1951) Tokyo Sweetheart (1952) Husband and Wife (1953) Sound of the Mountain (1954) Onna no Koyomi (1954) The Eternal Breasts (1955) The Moon Has Risen (1955) A Wife's Heart (1956) A Rainbow Plays in my Heart (1957) The Twilight Years (1973) Picture Bride (1994)