Acting
Kimiko Yo
JA, PT, EN, KO cinema · 158 credits
Born
12 May 1956 (age 70)
Birthplace
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Sheep in the Box
as Nobuyo Nishimura
52-Hertz Whales
as Noriko Okada
Noise
as Hanae Shoji
Winter Rose
as Michiko Wataguchi
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Everything Will Be Owlright!
as Minoyama
AI Amok
as Eiko Tanaka
Red
as Ogata Yoko
Hotel Royal
as Miko Noshiro
Any Crybabies Around?
as Setsuko Goto
Step
as Michiyo Muramatsu
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
Giwaku
Actor
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito
Omotenashi
as Mitsuko
Enokida Trading Co.
as Yoko Shima
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
The Blue Hearts
as (segment “Hammer”)
Perfect Revolution
as Akiko
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Black Widow Business
as Eiko Segawa
Midnight Diner 2
as Chieko
Zen and Bones
as Kô Mittwer
The Ice Ruts
as 요네자와 사유리
Parasyte: Part 2
as Izumi Nobuko
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
as Motoko Ueno
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
as Motoko Ueno
A Stitch of Life
as Hiroe Minami
Midnight Diner
as Chieko Hanawa
Parasyte: Part 1
as Izumi Nobuko
300 Million Yen Robbery
as Ryoko Nakaoka
My Little Sweet Pea
as Ayako Akaike
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
as Mitsuru Funaki
Nobody's Perfect
as Chieko Kuroki
A Story of Yonosuke
as Taeko Yokomichi
Galileo XX
as Yoriko Takasaki
For Love's Sake
as Toyo Taiga
Dearest
as Tamiko Hamasaki
悪女について
as Suzuki Tane
The Housekeeper
as Haruko Inamura
Dirty Hearts
as Naomi
Ace Attorney
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Rebirth
as Angel
Star Watching Dog
as Innkeeper
My SO Has Got Depression
as Satoko Kurita
Villain
as Yoriko Shimizu
Rinco's Restaurant
as Ruriko
A Lone Scalpel
as Shizuka Takei
Soup Opera
as Yasuko Tanaka
Dear Doctor
as Akemi Ohtake
Air Doll
as Receptionist Yoshiko
Departures
as Yuriko Kamimura
The Ramen Girl
as Reiko
Virgin Snow
as Mayumi Sasaki
Invisible War
as Kinu Murozono
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
as Kita no mandokoro
Yamato
Actor
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
as Tezuka Yukino
Café Lumière
as Yoko's Stepmother
Drugstore Girl
as Hideko Mukai
Farewell, Kuro
as Eri Yuki
Worst by Chance
as Hatsuko Kim
An Autumn Afternoon
as Akiko Hirayama
Dog Star
Actor
Aiki
Actor
Hotel Hibiscus
as Mieko's Mother
Hysteric
Actor
Timeless Melody
as Chikako's Mother
Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Aya's Mother
The Exam
as Midori Chiaki
Wait and See
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
20th Century Nostalgia
as Anzu's Mother
Gonin 2
as Ran
Haunted School
as Professor Yukawa
Sharaku
Actor
The Brutal Insanity of Love
as Nami Muraki
A Night in Nude
as Nami Tsuchiya
Passion
Actor
Hiruko the Goblin
as Reiko's Mother, Actor
Orchids Under the Moon
as Nami / Yoko
Yumeji
as Jiro
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Managing Director's Daughter
Love Bites Back
as Sanae Ebino
