Kimiko Yo
- Acting
- May 12, 1956 · Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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
Filmography
- The Canary's Lullaby
- Two Cigarettes, Three Nights
- The Invisibles
- Sinsin and the Mouse
- Sheep in the Box · Nobuyo Nishimura
- Straight to Hell · Kiyo Mita
- Euthanasia Special Zone
- The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
- Usotoki Rhetoric
- Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai · Fumiyo Takahashi
- Shinjuku Field Hospital · Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
- Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire · Tendo Ichiko
- 52-Hertz Whales · Noriko Okada
- 橋ものがたり「約束」
- The Gift of Your Heart · Yukino Aihara
- Trillion Game · Mitsuzono Shizuku
- The Kind-Hearted Cat · Matsuko
- Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
- Sanctuary
- Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
- Omokage
- Angel Flight · Megumi Yoshizaki
- My Happy Divorced Life
- To Me, the One Who Loved You · Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (Voice)
- To Every You I've Loved Before · Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (Voice)
- Everything Will Be Owlright! · Minoyama
- Winter Rose · Michiko Wataguchi
- The Files of Young Kindaichi · Hiruko Kirigoe
- Noise · Hanae Shoji
- hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
- Matrilineal Family · Kimie Kobayashi
- First Gentleman
- Dream Team · Yoshie Andou
- Toubousha
- Any Crybabies Around? · Setsuko Goto
- Hotel Royal · Miko Noshiro
- Sugu Shinun Dakara · Mori Kaoru
- Peaceful Death
- Step · Michiyo Muramatsu
- Red · Ogata Yoko
- AI Amok · Eiko Tanaka
- Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room · Shibusawa Wakako
- Show Me the Way to the Station
- Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File · 南雲喜里子
- Death Office · Shingu
- Welcome to National Treasures
- Aging Police / Resurrection Special
- Sleep in the Shadows
- The Naked Director · Kozue Muranishi
- An Artist of the Floating World · Mrs. Saito
- BON-UTA, A Song from Home · Voice
- Giwaku
- Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~ · Junko Kijimoto
- dele
- Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project · Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
- Enokida Trading Co. · Yoko Shima
- The Murder of Kuroido
- Half Blue Sky · Kimika Okada
- Innocent Days · Michiko Tanaka
- Omotenashi · Mitsuko
- ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
- The Public Enemy · Akiko Kawarada
- Perfect Revolution · Akiko
- Izakaya Fuji
- Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter · Koto
- The Blue Hearts · (segment “Hammer”)
- And Then There Were None · Erika Konami
- Midnight Diner 2 · Chieko
- The Ice Ruts · 요네자와 사유리
- Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono · Yoriko Musubi
- Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories · Chieko Tachibana
- Black Widow Business · Eiko Segawa
- Zen and Bones · Kô Mittwer
- Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
- Shin Godzilla · Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
- Hello, I Love You · Machi Domoto
- Night Hero NAOTO · 権田薫子
- Going against the Grain in Fukushima · Speaker
- REPLAY＆DESTROY · fortune-teller woman
- Parasyte: Part 2 · Izumi Nobuko