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Kimiko Yo

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 neighbor in The Drugstore girl and a 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 an NHK employee in 2006 and is managed by the Alpha Agency.


Aliases
  • Yo Kimiko
English 日本語

君を愛したひとりの僕へ

2022
as Kazune Takigawa (voice)

Shin Godzilla

2016
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense

Midnight Diner

2014
as Chieko Hanawa

Niwatori wa hadashi da

2004
as Kimi Sakurai

Café Lumière

2004
as Yôko no keiba

浮世の画家

2019
as 斎藤夫人

Oka wo koete

2008
as Hatsu Hosokawa

300 Million Yen Robbery

2014
as Ryoko Nakaoka

Love Bites Back

1988
as Sanae Ebino

Air Doll

2009
as Receptionist

The Ice Ruts

2016
as Sayuri Yonezawa

総理の夫

2021
as Takako Soma

Star Watching Dog

2011
as Innkeeper

横道世之介

2013
as 世之介の母・横道多恵子

Fukigen na kajitsu

1997
as Reiko Muto

おくりびと

2008
as 上村 百合子

Dearest

2012
as Tamiko Hamasaki

Rebirth

2011
as Angel

The Ramen Girl

2008
as Reiko

傷だらけの天使

1997
as Kazue Nakatsu

Dear Doctor

2009
as Akemi Ohtake

Tonari machi sensô

2007
as Kinu Murozono

おもてなし

2018
as 美津子

For Love's Sake

2012
as Toyo Taiga

逆転裁判

2012
as 綾里舞子

Virgin Snow

2007
as Mayumi Sasaki

Parasyte: Part 1

2014
as Izumi Nobuko

ノイズ

2022
as 庄司華江

Ai no rukeichi

2007
as Asako Kikuchi

ステップ

2020
as 村松美千代

Sayonara, Kuro

2003
as Eri Yuki

月下の蘭

1991
as 名美/陽子

僕が愛したすべての君へ

2022
as Kazune Takigawa (voice)

Haunted School

1995
as Yukawa

Enokida bôekidô

2018
as Yoko Shima

My Little Sweet Pea

2013
as 赤池彩子

さらば愛しき人よ

1987
as 立松みち

Gonin 2

1996
as Ran

Hitorine

2002
as Naoko

Villain

2010
as Yoriko Shimizu

おもかげ

2023
as 入江静

Nûdo no yoru

1993
as Nami Tsuchiya