Kimiko Yo
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
1956-05-12 (68 years old)
Place of Birth
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Acting
(2024)
52-Hertz Whales
as Noriko Okada
(2023)
(2023)
(2022)
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
(2022)
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
(2022)
The Dog won't Eat it, but Charlie Laughs
as Minoyama
(2022)
Noise
as Hanae Shoji
(2022)
Winter Rose
as Michiko Wataguchi
(2021)
(2020)
Red
as Ogata Yoko
(2020)
AI Amok
as Eiko Tanaka
(2020)
Any Crybabies Around?
as Setsuko Goto
(2020)
Hotel Royal
as Miko Noshiro
(2020)
(2020)
Step
as Michiyo Muramatsu
(2019)
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito
(2019)
(2019)
(2019)
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
(2019)
(2019)
(2018)
(2018)
Omotenashi
as Mitsuko
(2018)
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
(2018)
Enokida Trading Co.
as Yoko Shima
(2017)
(2017)
The Blue Hearts
as (segment “Hammer”)
(2017)
Perfect Revolution
as Akiko
(2017)
(2016)
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
(2016)
Midnight Diner 2
as Chieko
(2016)
Black Widow Business
as Eiko Segawa
(2016)
(2016)
Zen and Bones
as Kô Mittwer
(2016)
The Ice Ruts
as 요네자와 사유리
(2015)
Parasyte: Part 2
as Izumi Nobuko
(2015)
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
as Motoko Ueno
(2015)
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
as Motoko Ueno
(2015)
A Stitch of Life
as Hiroe Minami
(2015)
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
as Speaker
(2014)
Parasyte: Part 1
as Izumi Nobuko
(2014)
Midnight Diner
as Chieko Hanawa
(2014)
300 Million Yen Robbery
as Ryoko Nakaoka
(2013)
(2013)
A Story of Yonosuke
as Taeko Yokomichi
(2013)
Galileo XX
as Yoriko Takasaki
(2013)
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
as Mitsuru Funaki
(2013)
My Little Sweet Pea
as Ayako Akaike
(2013)
(2012)
Ace Attorney
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
(2012)
Bread of Happiness
as Yoko
(2012)
For Love's Sake
as Toyo Taiga
(2012)
Dearest
as Tamiko Hamasaki
(2012)
Black Dawn
as Kumi Muramatsu
(2012)
(2012)
Dirty Hearts
as Naomi
(2012)
The Housekeeper
as Haruko Inamura
(2012)
(2012)
悪女について
as Suzuki Tane
(2011)
Star Watching Dog
as Innkeeper
(2011)
Rebirth
as Angel
(2011)
My SO Has Got Depression
as Satoko Kurita
(2011)
(2010)
Villain
as Yoriko Shimizu
(2010)
Rinco's Restaurant
as Ruriko
(2010)
A Lone Scalpel
as Shizuka Takei
(2010)
Soup Opera
as Yasuko Tanaka
(2009)
Air Doll
as Receptionist Yoshiko
(2009)
Dear Doctor
as Akemi Ohtake
(2008)
Departures
as Yuriko Kamimura
(2008)
The Ramen Girl
as Reiko
(2008)
(2008)
(2007)
(2007)
Virgin Snow
as Mayumi Sasaki
(2007)
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
as Kita no mandokoro
(2007)
(2007)
Invisible War
as Kinu Murozono
(2007)
(2005)
(2005)
(2005)
(2005)
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
(2005)
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
as Tezuka Yukino
(2004)
Café Lumière
as Yoko's Stepmother
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
(2004)
(2003)
Worst by Chance
as Hatsuko Kim
(2003)
Farewell, Kuro
as Eri Yuki
(2003)
(2002)
Hotel Hibiscus
as Mieko's Mother
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
(2002)
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
as Rume
(2001)
(2000)
Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Aya's Mother
(2000)
(2000)
(2000)
(2000)
(2000)
Timeless Melody
as Chikako's Mother
(2000)
(1999)
The Exam
as Midori Chiaki
(1998)
(1998)
Wait and See
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
(1998)
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
as Kuramoto
(1997)
(1997)
20th Century Nostalgia
as Anzu's Mother
(1997)
(1997)
(1997)
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
(1997)
(1997)
(1996)
Gonin 2
as Ran
(1996)
(1995)
Haunted School
as Yukawa
(1995)
(1995)
(1995)
(1994)
(1994)
(1994)
(1993)
A Night in Nude
as Nami Tsuchiya
(1993)
(1993)
The Brutal Insanity of Love
as Nami Muraki
(1992)
(1991)
Hiruko the Goblin
as Reiko's Mother
(1991)
(1991)
Yumeji
as Jiro
(1991)
(1991)
(1991)
(1991)
(1991)
(1991)
(1990)
(1990)
(1989)
(1988)
Love Bites Back
as Sanae Ebino
(1988)
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Managing Director's Daughter
(1987)