After graduating from the Waseda University, Sugie joined P.C.L/Photo Chemical Laboratory (latter became Toho) in 1937.
He worked as an assistant director for Kajiro Yamamoto, Shiro Toyoda, Yasujiro Shimazu, Mikio Naruse, and Akira Kurosawa.
Since then, Sugie directed romance dramas ("I Can't Say The Person's Name" and "Oblivion Petals"), youth movies such as "Janken Musume", " He even supported Toho as a location director who filmed in various places with the comedy starring the "Company President Series" and Crazy Cats.
In that times, he continued to produce projects that came from the company one after another without a break, and left 68 directing works in less than 20 years.
From the latter half of the 1960s, the number of directors of theatrical films decreased due to the sunshine of the Japanese film industry, and he moved to the Toho TV Club to direct TV dramas.