Kimiko Yo
Acting
Born: 1956-05-12 in 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
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Hakusen Nagashi
Masako Ozawa
The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Tendo Ichiko
Shin Godzilla
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Say You Love Me
Kaoru Kanzaki
Sheep in the Box
Nobuyo Nishimura
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Chieko Tachibana
Half Blue Sky
Kimika Okada
Dangerous Detective
Yuko
Dangerous Detective
Hiromi Nagisa
Straight to Hell
Kiyo Mita
Churasan
Shibata Yoko
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Yoriko Musubi
Into the White Night
Taniguchi Mafumi
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Sanctuary
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Departures
Yuriko Kamimura
Atsuhime
Hisa-hime
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
Junko Kijimoto
Just One Love
Akiko Kanzaki
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
dele
Bambino!
Parasyte: Part 1
Izumi Nobuko
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
Yamato
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Air Doll
Receptionist Yoshiko
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Rume
Back of Father
Togawa Yasuko
Black Widow Business
Eiko Segawa
Tokyo Rhapsody
Usotoki Rhetoric
Parasyte: Part 2
Izumi Nobuko
Death Office
Shingu
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Matrilineal Family
Kimie Kobayashi