Known For
Acting
Born
May 12, 1956
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Credits
237 titles
Kimiko Yo
Biography
Kimiko Yo was born in Yokohama, a city just south of Tokyo to a Japanese mother and Taiwanese father on the 12th of May 1956. Her cousin was actress Bunjaku Han. She became active in front of the camera in 1987 and has been a feature of Japanese television and cinema ever since. She had begun acting on the theatre stage in 1976. Audiences may mostly know her for her supporting role in Shin Gojira, as a sympathetic colleague in the 2008 films Departures, which won an Oscar, and kind wife and waitress in Ramen Girl, but she has almost 200 credits to her name. These include an abnormal neighbour in The Drugstore girl and serene presence in Café Lumière where she was directed by a Taiwanese director in Japan. Dear Doctor (2009) propelled her name forward in Japan and was an award winner. She has several Japan Academy prizes to her name. Like most celebrities she pushes products and has done commercials for telephone companies, shampoos and cosmetics manufacturers. Yo is married to a man who at the time was a NHK employee in 2006 and is managed by the Alpha Agency.
Known For
Filmography
Otoko Tomodachi
The Invisibles
Sinsin and the Mouse
Sheep in the Box
Nobuyo Nishimura
Straight to Hell
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
Usotoki Rhetoric
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
高橋文世
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Tendo Ichiko
52-Hertz Whales
Noriko Okada
橋ものがたり「約束」
The Gift of Your Heart
Yukino Aihara
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Matsuko
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Sanctuary
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Omokage
My Happy Divorced Life
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Minoyama
Winter Rose
Michiko Wataguchi
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Noise
Hanae Shoji
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Matrilineal Family
Kimie Kobayashi
First Gentleman
Dream Team
Yoshie Andou
Toubousha
Any Crybabies Around?
Setsuko Goto
Hotel Royal
Miko Noshiro
Sugu Shinun Dakara
Mori Kaoru
Peaceful Death
Step
Michiyo Muramatsu
Red
Ogata Yoko
AI Amok
Eiko Tanaka
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Shibusawa Wakako
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
南雲喜里子
Show Me the Way to the Station
Death Office
Shingu
Welcome to National Treasures
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Sleep in the Shadows
The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
An Artist of the Floating World
Mrs. Saito
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
Giwaku
dele