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.
Personal info
Gender
Female
Birthday
1956-05-12
Place of birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Images
Cast
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
6.70
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000
0.00
Noise
2022
5.80
Farewell, Kuro
2003
6.80
Can you collect it? Complete
1994
0.00
Villain
2010
6.61
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994
0.00
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
6.10
Worst by Chance
2003
0.00
Departures
2008
7.80
Gonin 2
1996
7.00
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
0.00
The Ramen Girl
2008
6.46
The Exam
1999
0.00
Virgin Snow
2007
6.60
Another Battle
2000
5.70
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002
0.00
Rebirth
2011
7.56
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
8.20
First Gentleman
2021
4.50
For Love's Sake
2012
6.90
Star Watching Dog
2011
7.67
Crossroads
2011
6.50
Dearest
2012
6.80
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
7.20
Bread of Happiness
2012
6.70
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997
0.00
Sumomo mo momo
1995
0.00
Dog Star
2002
7.50
Winter Rose
2022
5.00
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
0.00
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
7.00
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
6.20
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
7.10
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
2017
0.00
Dear Doctor
2009
6.40
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
3.40
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
5.94
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
6.73
Aiki
2002
4.30
Café Lumière
2004
6.68
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
8.20
Nobody's Perfect
2013
0.00
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
0.00
Midnight Diner
2014
7.58
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
7.50
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
7.10
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
7.10
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
6.90
Hysteric
2000
0.00
Invisible War
2007
6.00
Tokyo Tower
2005
7.10
Where The Legend Lives
2008
6.00
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
0.00
Time Leap
1997
0.00
52-Hertz Whales
2024
7.90
悪女について
2012
0.00
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
6.00
A Night in Nude
1993
5.95
Alone in the Night
1994
6.00
Black Dawn
2012
7.10
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
7.20
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
4.50
Wait and See
1998
6.83
Omokage
2023
0.00
Shin Godzilla
2016
7.20
Maria's Stomach
1990
0.00
Suicide Club
2001
6.50
Black Widow Business
2016
8.50
Midnight Diner 2
2016
7.42
Moonlight Serenade
1997
5.40
Pacchigi!
2005
6.20
The Blue Hearts
2017
5.00
Air Doll
2009
7.00
Perfect Revolution
2017
6.00
Timeless Melody
2000
0.00
Love Bites Back
1988
1.00
Via Okinawa
1989
6.50
Omotenashi
2018
4.70
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
5.40
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
6.50
Haunted School
1995
6.50
Zen and Bones
2016
0.00
The Housekeeper
2012
7.00
The Ice Ruts
2016
7.00
Passion
1992
6.50
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
0.00
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
6.00
Oka wo koete
2008
0.00
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
1.00
A Lone Scalpel
2010
6.40
Kuroido Goroshi
2018
0.00
Amagi Pass
1998
1.00
AI Amok
2020
7.10
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007
0.00
Yumeji
1991
6.40
Dirty Hearts
2012
6.60
Oh My God
2002
0.00
Immoral Affairs
1997
2.00
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
0.00
Shield of Straw
2013
6.38
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
6.70
Free and Easy 11
2000
7.00
Yamato
2005
5.40
Red
2020
4.70
Hotel Royal
2020
5.20
Giwaku
2019
7.00
Ace Attorney
2012
6.10
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
5.60
Father of the Bride
2012
3.00
Sharaku
1995
6.10
Soup Opera
2010
8.00
Step
2020
7.20
Peaceful Death
2020
6.40
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
1.00
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
7.00
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
6.70
Baian the Assassin
1990
0.00
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
0.00
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
0.00
A Stitch of Life
2015
5.80
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
0.00
The Yakuza Principal
2007
8.00
Galileo XX
2013
7.10
Suspicion
2003
0.00
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991
0.00
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
6.10
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
6.50
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005
0.00
