Kimiko Yo
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 12, 1956 (age 70)
- Place of birth
- Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
- Credits
- 241
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
The Canary's Lullaby
2026Movie
Two Cigarettes, Three Nights
2026Movie
The Invisibles
2026Movie
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026Movie
Sheep in the Box
2026Movie
Nobuyo Nishimura
Straight to Hell
2026TV
Kiyo Mita
Euthanasia Special Zone
2026Movie
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026Movie
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024TV
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024TV
Fumiyo Takahashi
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024TV
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024TV
Tendo Ichiko
52-Hertz Whales
2024Movie
Noriko Okada
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024Movie
The Gift of Your Heart
2024TV
Yukino Aihara
Trillion Game
2023TV
Mitsuzono Shizuku
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023TV
Matsuko
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023Movie
Sanctuary
2023TV
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023TV
Omokage
2023Movie
Angel Flight
2023TV
Megumi Yoshizaki
My Happy Divorced Life
2023TV
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022Movie
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022Movie
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022Movie
Minoyama
Winter Rose
2022Movie
Michiko Wataguchi
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022TV
Hiruko Kirigoe
Noise
2022Movie
Hanae Shoji
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
2022Movie
Matrilineal Family
2021TV
Kimie Kobayashi
First Gentleman
2021Movie
Dream Team
2021TV
Yoshie Andou
Toubousha
2020TV
Any Crybabies Around?
2020Movie
Setsuko Goto
Hotel Royal
2020Movie
Miko Noshiro
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020TV
Mori Kaoru
Peaceful Death
2020Movie
Step
2020Movie
Michiyo Muramatsu
Red
2020Movie
Ogata Yoko
AI Amok
2020Movie
Eiko Tanaka
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020TV
Shibusawa Wakako
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019Movie
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
2019TV
南雲喜里子
Death Office
2019TV
Shingu
Welcome to National Treasures
2019TV
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019Movie
Sleep in the Shadows
2019Movie
The Naked Director
2019TV
Kozue Muranishi
An Artist of the Floating World
2019Movie
Mrs. Saito
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019Movie
(voice)
Giwaku
2019Movie
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
2019TV
Junko Kijimoto
dele
2018TV
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018Movie
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Enokida Trading Co.
2018Movie
Yoko Shima
The Murder of Kuroido
2018Movie
Half Blue Sky
2018TV
Kimika Okada
Innocent Days
2018TV
Michiko Tanaka
Omotenashi
2018Movie
Mitsuko
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017Movie
The Public Enemy
2017TV
Akiko Kawarada
Perfect Revolution
2017Movie
Akiko
Izakaya Fuji
2017TV
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017Movie
Koto
The Blue Hearts
2017Movie
(segment “Hammer”)
And Then There Were None
2017TV
Erika Konami
Midnight Diner 2
2016Movie
Chieko
The Ice Ruts
2016Movie
요네자와 사유리
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016TV
Yoriko Musubi
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016TV
Chieko Tachibana
Black Widow Business
2016Movie
Eiko Segawa
Zen and Bones
2016Movie
Kô Mittwer
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016Movie
Shin Godzilla
2016Movie
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Hello, I Love You
2016TV
Machi Domoto
Night Hero NAOTO
2016TV
権田薫子
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015Movie
Speaker
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015TV
fortune-teller woman
Parasyte: Part 2
2015Movie
Izumi Nobuko
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015Movie
Motoko Ueno
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015Movie
Motoko Ueno
A Stitch of Life
2015Movie
Hiroe Minami
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015TV
Parasyte: Part 1
2014Movie
Izumi Nobuko
Midnight Diner
2014Movie
Chieko Hanawa
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
2014TV
Nonaka Tomiko
Back of Father
2014TV
Togawa Yasuko
お葬式で会いましょう
2014TV
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014Movie
Ryoko Nakaoka
My Little Sweet Pea
2013Movie
Ayako Akaike
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013Movie
Mitsuru Funaki
The After-Dinner Mysteries SP: Inspector Kazamatsuri's Case File
2013Movie
Galileo XX
2013Movie
Yoriko Takasaki
Shield of Straw
2013Movie
Houkago Groove
2013TV
Nobody's Perfect
2013Movie
Chieko Kuroki
A Story of Yonosuke
2013Movie
Taeko Yokomichi
The Housekeeper
2012Movie
Haruko Inamura
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
2012TV
Dearest
2012Movie
Tamiko Hamasaki
Dirty Hearts
2012Movie
Naomi
For Love's Sake
2012Movie
Toyo Taiga
Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
2012Movie
悪女について
2012Movie
Suzuki Tane
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
2012TV
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012Movie
Ace Attorney
2012Movie
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Bread of Happiness
2012Movie
Yoko
Father of the Bride
2012Movie
Crossroads
2011Movie
My SO Has Got Depression
2011Movie
Satoko Kurita
Star Watching Dog
2011Movie
Innkeeper
Karyuu No Utage
2011TV
Miyagi Yoko
Rebirth
2011Movie
Angel
Taro no Tō
2011TV
Soup Opera
2010Movie
Yasuko Tanaka
Villain
2010Movie
Yoriko Shimizu
警視庁継続捜査班
2010TV
A Lone Scalpel
2010Movie
Shizuka Takei
Rinco's Restaurant
2010Movie
Ruriko
Air Doll
2009Movie
Receptionist Yoshiko
ママは昔パパだった
2009TV
Dear Doctor
2009Movie
Akemi Ohtake
Where The Legend Lives
2008Movie
Departures
2008Movie
Yuriko Kamimura
Oka wo koete
2008Movie
The Ramen Girl
2008Movie
Reiko
Daisuki!!
2008TV
Setsuko Kachigawa
Atsuhime
2008TV
Hisa-hime
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007Movie
Kita no mandokoro
夜の終る時
2007TV
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
2007TV
엔죠지 치에코
The Yakuza Principal
2007Movie
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007Movie
Virgin Snow
2007Movie
Mayumi Sasaki
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007Movie
Bambino!
2007TV
現ナマ弁護士
2007TV
Invisible War
2007Movie
Kinu Murozono
Evil People
2007TV
Chise Fujishima
Dear Father
2007TV
Fortune Teller
Just One Love
2006TV
Akiko Kanzaki
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006TV
Into the White Night
2006TV
Taniguchi Mafumi
Yamato
2005Movie
Be with You
2005TV
Hongo Naomi
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005Movie
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005Movie
Tezuka Yukino
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005TV
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005Movie
Tokyo Tower
2005Movie
Affectionate Time
2005TV
Kujo Tomoko
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
2005TV
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004Movie
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004Movie
Café Lumière
2004Movie
Yoko's Stepmother
女の中の二つの顔
2004TV
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004Movie
Fireflies: River of Light
2004Movie
Drugstore Girl
2004Movie
Hideko Mukai
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003TV
Yukiko Ando
Worst by Chance
2003Movie
Hatsuko Kim
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
2003TV
Farewell, Kuro
2003Movie
Eri Yuki
Kao
2003TV
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
Suspicion
2003Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
2003Movie
Akiko Hirayama
Aiki
2002Movie
Hotel Hibiscus
2002Movie
Mieko's Mother
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002TV
Oh My God
2002Movie
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002Movie
Rume
Dog Star
2002Movie
California Dreamin'
2002TV
Kyoko Yamazaki
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002Movie
Suicide Club
2001Movie
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001TV
Love Story
2001TV
Churasan
2001TV
Shibata Yoko
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000Movie
Aya's Mother
Another Battle
2000Movie
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000Movie
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000Movie
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000Movie
Hysteric
2000Movie
Timeless Melody
2000Movie
Chikako's Mother
Free and Easy 11
2000Movie
Dangerous Relationship
1999TV
Ayako Tsuzuki
The Exam
1999Movie
Midori Chiaki
Live
1999TV
Wait and See
1998Movie
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998Movie
Kuramoto
Kurenai
1998TV
A Dangerous Woman
1998TV
Amagi Pass
1998Movie
Immoral Affairs
1997Movie
20th Century Nostalgia
1997Movie
Anzu's Mother
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997Movie
Middle-aged Bachelors
1997TV
Time Leap
1997Movie
An Angel with Many Scars
1997Movie
The Most Important Person
1997TV
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997Movie
Man's Lover in TV Drama
Moonlight Serenade
1997Movie
Virgin Road
1997TV
Michi
The President's Christmas Tree
1996Movie
Concerto
1996TV
Gonin 2
1996Movie
Ran
Hakusen Nagashi
1996TV
Masako Ozawa
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
1996TV
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995TV
Hiruko Kirigoe
Haunted School
1995Movie
Professor Yukawa
Say You Love Me
1995TV
Kaoru Kanzaki
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995Movie
Sharaku
1995Movie
Sumomo mo momo
1995Movie
Alone in the Night
1994Movie
Can you collect it? Complete
1994Movie
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994Movie
A Night in Nude
1993Movie
Nami Tsuchiya
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993Movie
Suzuki
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993Movie
Nami Muraki
Gorotsuki 2
1993Movie
Passion
1992Movie
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991Movie
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991Movie
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991Movie
Orchids Under the Moon
1991Movie
Nami / Yoko
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991Movie
Yumeji
1991Movie
Jiro
Hiruko the Goblin
1991Movie
Reiko's Mother
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991Movie
Baian the Assassin
1990Movie
Maria's Stomach
1990Movie
Via Okinawa
1989Movie
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988Movie
Managing Director's Daughter
Love Bites Back
1988Movie
Sanae Ebino
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987Movie
Dangerous Detective
1986TV
Yuko, Hiromi Nagisa
ごりやくさん
TV
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