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Kimiko Yo

Born 1956-05-12

📍 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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.

Filmography 223

Sinsin and the Mouse

Sheep in the Box

as Nobuyo Nishimura

Straight to Hell

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

Usotoki Rhetoric

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

as 高橋文世

Shinjuku Field Hospital

as Ritsuko Nishi Freeman

Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire

as Tendo Ichiko

52-Hertz Whales

as Noriko Okada

橋ものがたり「約束」

The Gift of Your Heart

as Yukino Aihara

as Mitsuzono Shizuku

The Kind-Hearted Cat

Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy

Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero

My Happy Divorced Life

To Me, the One Who Loved You

as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)

To Every You I've Loved Before

as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)

Everything Will Be Owlright!

as Michiko Wataguchi

The Files of Young Kindaichi

as Hiruko Kirigoe

First Gentleman

as Yoshie Andou

Any Crybabies Around?

as Setsuko Goto

as Miko Noshiro

Sugu Shinun Dakara

as Michiyo Muramatsu

Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room

as Shibusawa Wakako

Show Me the Way to the Station

Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File

as 南雲喜里子

Welcome to National Treasures

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

Sleep in the Shadows

The Naked Director

as Kozue Muranishi

An Artist of the Floating World

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project

as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")

Enokida Trading Co.

The Murder of Kuroido

as Kimika Okada

as Michiko Tanaka

ドラマスペシャル松本清張鬼畜

The Public Enemy

as Akiko Kawarada

Perfect Revolution

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

The Blue Hearts

as (segment “Hammer”)

And Then There Were None

as Erika Konami

Midnight Diner 2

as 요네자와 사유리

Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono

as Yoriko Musubi

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

as Chieko Tachibana

Black Widow Business

Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan

as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense

Hello, I Love You

as Machi Domoto

Night Hero NAOTO

as 権田薫子

Going against the Grain in Fukushima

REPLAY＆DESTROY

as fortune-teller woman

Parasyte: Part 2

as Izumi Nobuko

Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment

Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion

A Stitch of Life

as Hiroe Minami

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

Parasyte: Part 1

as Izumi Nobuko

as Chieko Hanawa

Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma

as Nonaka Tomiko

as Togawa Yasuko

お葬式で会いましょう

300 Million Yen Robbery

as Ryoko Nakaoka

My Little Sweet Pea

as Ayako Akaike

A Tale of Samurai Cooking

as Mitsuru Funaki

謎解きはディナーのあとでスペシャル～風祭警部の事件簿～

as Yoriko Takasaki

Shield of Straw

Nobody's Perfect

A Story of Yonosuke

as Taeko Yokomichi

The Housekeeper

as Haruko Inamura

Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara

as Tamiko Hamasaki

For Love's Sake

悪女について

Cleopatra na Onnatachi

Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai

as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)

Bread of Happiness

Father of the Bride

My SO Has Got Depression

as Satoko Kurita

Star Watching Dog

Karyuu No Utage

as Yasuko Tanaka

as Yoriko Shimizu

警視庁継続捜査班

as Shizuka Takei

Rinco's Restaurant

as Receptionist Yoshiko

ママは昔パパだった

as 우에노 마키코

as Akemi Ohtake

Where The Legend Lives

as Yuriko Kamimura

as Setsuko Kachigawa

Chacha: The Princess of Heaven

as Kita no mandokoro

Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop

as 엔죠지 치에코

The Yakuza Principal

Memories of the Womb: You Are Here

as Mayumi Sasaki

as Kinu Murozono

as Chise Fujishima

as Fortune Teller

as Akiko Kanzaki

Tokumei! Keiji Dongame

Into the White Night

as Taniguchi Mafumi

Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP

as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]

Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke

as Tezuka Yukino

Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke

We Shall Overcome Someday

Affectionate Time

Chicken Is Barefoot

Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari

as Yoko's Stepmother

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

Fireflies: River of Light

as Hideko Mukai

Drop-out Teacher Returns to School

Worst by Chance

as Kyoko Higuchi（樋口京子）

An Autumn Afternoon

as Akiko Hirayama

as Mieko's Mother

横山秀夫サスペンスシリーズ (TBS)

Music of Remembrance -Gb-

California Dreamin'

as Kyoko Yamazaki

The Lonely Affair of the Heart

as Shibata Yoko

Asako in Ruby Shoes

as Aya's Mother

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5

Timeless Melody

as Chikako's Mother

Free and Easy 11

Dangerous Relationship

as Ayako Tsuzuki

as Midori Chiaki

as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

A Dangerous Woman

Immoral Affairs

20th Century Nostalgia

as Anzu's Mother

Middle-aged Bachelors

An Angel with Many Scars

as Man's Lover in TV Drama

Moonlight Serenade

The President's Christmas Tree

Hakusen Nagashi

as Masako Ozawa

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

as Hiruko Kirigoe

Say You Love Me

as Kaoru Kanzaki

Keikoku! Nozoki ari.

Alone in the Night

Can you collect it? Complete

Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2

A Night in Nude

as Nami Tsuchiya

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark

The Brutal Insanity of Love

The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki

Orchids Under the Moon

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

Hiruko the Goblin

as Reiko's Mother

Hiruko the Goblin

Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)

Baian the Assassin

Maria's Stomach

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

as Managing Director's Daughter

Love Bites Back

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Dangerous Detective

Dangerous Detective

as Hiromi Nagisa

hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–