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 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.

Cast

Show Me the Way to the Station

巡査鉄兵の推理日誌

Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan

Can you collect it? Complete

Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2

Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5

Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)

Hiruko the Goblin

Reiko's Mother, Unknown

Worst by Chance

Yuriko Kamimura

Keikoku! Nozoki ari.

hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–

Music of Remembrance -Gb-

Rinco's Restaurant

First Gentleman

For Love's Sake

Star Watching Dog

Tamiko Hamasaki

BON-UTA, A Song from Home

Aging Police / Resurrection Special

Bread of Happiness

姑は名探偵芹澤雅子　八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件

Michiko Wataguchi

Orchids Under the Moon

My SO Has Got Depression

My Little Sweet Pea

A Tale of Samurai Cooking

ドラマSP　松本清張「鬼畜」

The Brutal Insanity of Love

To Me, the One Who Loved You

Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)

To Every You I've Loved Before

Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)

Yoko's Stepmother

Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

Managing Director's Daughter

Nobody's Perfect

Everything Will Be Owlright!

An Angel with Many Scars

Man's Lover in TV Drama

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark

Parasyte: Part 1

Parasyte: Part 2

Where The Legend Lives

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

52-Hertz Whales

悪女について

Going against the Grain in Fukushima

300 Million Yen Robbery

A Night in Nude

Alone in the Night

Memories of the Womb: You Are Here

A Story of Yonosuke

Taeko Yokomichi

Fireflies: River of Light

Wife of Hiroshi's Brother

Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki

Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense

Maria's Stomach

Black Widow Business

Midnight Diner 2

Moonlight Serenade

We Shall Overcome Someday

The Blue Hearts

(segment “Hammer”)

Receptionist Yoshiko

Perfect Revolution

Timeless Melody

Chikako's Mother

Love Bites Back

The Heartbreak Yakuza

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

20th Century Nostalgia

The Housekeeper

요네자와 사유리

The President's Christmas Tree

Enokida Trading Co.

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

The Murder of Kuroido

Chacha: The Princess of Heaven

Kita no mandokoro

Immoral Affairs

Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari

Shield of Straw

Asako in Ruby Shoes

Free and Easy 11

Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)

Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project

Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")

Any Crybabies Around?

Father of the Bride

Michiyo Muramatsu

The Lonely Affair of the Heart

Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion

Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment

Baian the Assassin

The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral

An Artist of the Floating World

Sleep in the Shadows

A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage

A Stitch of Life

Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai

The Yakuza Principal

Yoriko Takasaki

寝台特急出羽号　赤い爪痕の女

Chicken Is Barefoot

Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP

Ando Yukiko [Teacher]

Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke

The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat

An Autumn Afternoon

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～