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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

死役所

2019
as シン宮

Izakaya Fuji

2017
as Nishio Tamami

新宿野戦病院

2024
as リツコ・ニシ・フリーマン

たったひとつの恋

2006
as Akiko Kanzaki

Dandy Daddy?

2009
as Mishima Kiwako

パーセント

2024
as 宇佐美のどか

Warui Yatsura

2007
as 藤島チセ / FUJISHIMA Chise

虎に翼

2024
as 星 百合

ちゅらさん

2001
as 池端 容子

やさしい猫

2023
as マツコ

今度生まれたら

2022
as 山賀佐保子

Dr.倫太郎

2015
as 益田 伊久美

Be With You

2005
as Hongo Naomi

2003
as 樋口京子

Night Hero NAOTO

2016
as 権田薫子 / GONDA Kaoruko

Karyu no Utage

2011
as 宮城洋子

おせん

2008
as Shizu Asai

イノセント・デイズ

2018
as Tanaka Michiko

Yasashii Jikan

2005
as Kujo Tomoko

Guest Star

Episode Shrink
パニック症
2024
Episode エンジェルフライト 国際霊柩送還士
社葬 vs 食堂おかめ
2023
Episode 世界ふれあい街歩き
ジローナ〜スペイン〜
2013
Episode 世界ふれあい街歩き
イスタンブール 新市街〜トルコ〜
2012
Episode 世界ふれあい街歩き
高雄〜台湾〜
2013