Kimiko Yo
Acting
🎂 1956-05-12
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.
Cast credits(224)
Kimika Okada
2018
Hiruko Kirigoe
1995
Kozue Muranishi
2019
Yoriko Musubi
2016
Hisa-hime
2008
2023
Yuko
1986
Hiromi Nagisa
1986
Togawa Yasuko
2014
Shingu
2019
2023
Masako Ozawa
1996
Akiko Kanzaki
2006
権田薫子
2016
Kujo Tomoko
2005
Akiko Kawarada
2017
Fortune Teller
2007
Hongo Naomi
2005
2017
fortune-teller woman
2015
Mitsuzono Shizuku
2023
Kaoru Kanzaki
1995
2018
Yukino Aihara
2024
2024
Tendo Ichiko
2024
Chise Fujishima
2007
Shibusawa Wakako
2020
Chieko Tachibana
2016
Machi Domoto
2016
Setsuko Kachigawa
2008
1996
2012
Taniguchi Mafumi
2006
2007
Michiko Tanaka
2018
1997
Michi
1997
Ayako Tsuzuki
1999
Hiruko Kirigoe
2022
2023
Matsuko
2023
Yukiko Ando
2003
2013
2012
우에노 마키코
2009
Shibata Yoko
2001
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
2024
Mori Kaoru
2020
2001
엔죠지 치에코
2007
南雲喜里子
2019
2004
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
2016
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
2003
2001
Ogata Yoko
2020
1999
高橋文世
2024
Nonaka Tomiko
2014
2019
2007
Izumi Nobuko
2014
Izumi Nobuko
2015
2003
Erika Konami
2017
2010
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
1998
Yuriko Kamimura
2008
2005
2001
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
1996
2002
Reiko's Mother
1991
1991
2014
2002
Receptionist Yoshiko
2009
Taeko Yokomichi
2013
1998
2006
Chieko Hanawa
2014
Miyagi Yoko
2011
2020
2007
Yoshie Andou
2021
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
2012
Aya's Mother
2000
Yoriko Shimizu
2010
2013
Noriko Okada
2024
Hatsuko Kim
2003
Motoko Ueno
2015
Chieko
2016
1997
Reiko
2008
Mayumi Sasaki
2007
2005
2005
Midori Chiaki
1999
Yasuko Tanaka
2010
Hanae Shoji
2022
Toyo Taiga
2012
Yoko's Stepmother
2004
2007
Satoko Kurita
2011
Mitsuru Funaki
2013
Motoko Ueno
2015
1994
Angel
2011
Koto
2017
Yukawa
1995
2005
Nami Tsuchiya
1993
2021
Kumi Muramatsu
2012
2011
Jiro
1991
Akemi Ohtake
2009
Mieko's Mother
2002
Tamiko Hamasaki
2012
1991
Shizuka Takei
2010
2019
Yoko
2012
1995
2000
Miko Noshiro
2020
Setsuko Goto
2020
Man's Lover in TV Drama
1997
1997
1987
2005
Hiroe Minami
2015
Innkeeper
2011
Michiko Wataguchi
2022
Mrs. Saito
2019
2020
1992
2007
Michiyo Muramatsu
2020
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
1998
1995
2000
Eri Yuki
2003
Yoko Shima
2018
Sanae Ebino
1988
2002
Ran
1996
1994
(segment “Hammer”)
2017
2012
Chikako's Mother
2000
Eiko Segawa
2016
Ayako Akaike
2013
2002
2013
2019
2000
1990
Mitsuko
2018
Anzu's Mother
1997
1991
2000
2023
2008
2007
1997
2016
Minoyama
2022
Haruko Inamura
2012
2012
1993
Akiko
2017
요네자와 사유리
2016
1995
Ryoko Nakaoka
2014
Nami Muraki
1993
Eiko Tanaka
2020
Kita no mandokoro
2007
2000
1998
1990
Yoriko Takasaki
2013
Kô Mittwer
2016
Kinu Murozono
2007
2002
1991
1989
1997
Naomi
2012
Ruriko
2010
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
2005
2017
2002
1997
Suzuki Tane
2012
(voice)
2019
2011
2023
1997
Kuramoto
1998
2003
2018
1991
Managing Director's Daughter
1988
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
2018
Tezuka Yukino
2005
1991
2008
2004
1991
Speaker
2015
2019
2004
1994
2004
Rume
2002
2004
2019
1996