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.
Known for
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
Churasan
Shibata Yoko
Half Blue Sky
Kimika Okada
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Yoriko Musubi
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Chieko Tachibana
Dangerous Detective
Yuko
Dangerous Detective
Hiromi Nagisa
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Back of Father
Togawa Yasuko
dele
Shin Godzilla
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Into the White Night
Taniguchi Mafumi
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Sanctuary
Hakusen Nagashi
Masako Ozawa
Atsuhime
Hisa-hime
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
Usotoki Rhetoric
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Tendo Ichiko
Say You Love Me
Kaoru Kanzaki
Affectionate Time
Kujo Tomoko
Departures
Yuriko Kamimura
Love Story
Yamato
Be with You
Hongo Naomi
The Public Enemy
Akiko Kawarada
Death Office
Shingu
Just One Love
Akiko Kanzaki
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Shibusawa Wakako
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
Yukiko Ando
Bambino!
Virgin Road
Michi
The Gift of Your Heart
Yukino Aihara
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
Concerto
Parasyte: Part 1
Izumi Nobuko
Evil People
Chise Fujishima
Night Hero NAOTO
権田薫子
Daisuki!!
Setsuko Kachigawa
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Dangerous Relationship
Ayako Tsuzuki
Crossroads
Galileo XX
Yoriko Takasaki
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Tezuka Yukino
Kao
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Matsuko
My Happy Divorced Life
Aiki
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
엔죠지 치에코
Izakaya Fuji
Parasyte: Part 2
Izumi Nobuko
The Most Important Person
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Dear Father
Fortune Teller
Suicide Club
Innocent Days
Michiko Tanaka
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
高橋文世
Hello, I Love You
Machi Domoto
Karyuu No Utage
Miyagi Yoko
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
A Dangerous Woman
Goodbye Mr Ozu
Immoral Affairs
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
Nonaka Tomiko
Worst by Chance
Hatsuko Kim
Middle-aged Bachelors
REPLAY＆DESTROY
fortune-teller woman
A Story of Yonosuke
Taeko Yokomichi
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Rume
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
The Ramen Girl
Reiko
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Mitsuru Funaki
Hiruko the Goblin
Reiko's Mother
Hiruko the Goblin
Shield of Straw
Kurenai
Taro no Tō
Dear Doctor
Akemi Ohtake
Alone in the Night
Toubousha
Midnight Diner
Chieko Hanawa
Sharaku
California Dreamin'
Kyoko Yamazaki
52-Hertz Whales
Noriko Okada
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Motoko Ueno
And Then There Were None
Erika Konami
Gonin 2
Ran
Air Doll
Receptionist Yoshiko
Sugu Shinun Dakara
Mori Kaoru
Red
Ogata Yoko
警視庁継続捜査班
Villain
Yoriko Shimizu
A Lone Scalpel
Shizuka Takei
Midnight Diner 2
Chieko
My SO Has Got Depression
Satoko Kurita
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
For Love's Sake
Toyo Taiga
Houkago Groove
Any Crybabies Around?
Setsuko Goto
AI Amok
Eiko Tanaka
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Koto
Rebirth
Angel
Wait and See
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
The Blue Hearts
(segment “Hammer”)
Live
ママは昔パパだった
우에노 마키코
Haunted School
Yukawa
Yumeji
Jiro
Tokyo Tower
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
南雲喜里子
Ace Attorney
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
300 Million Yen Robbery
Ryoko Nakaoka
Soup Opera
Yasuko Tanaka
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Motoko Ueno
Star Watching Dog
Innkeeper
Show Me the Way to the Station
Dog Star
We Shall Overcome Someday
Dream Team
Yoshie Andou
女の中の二つの顔
Bread of Happiness
Yoko
Farewell, Kuro
Eri Yuki
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Moonlight Serenade
An Artist of the Floating World
Mrs. Saito
Noise
Hanae Shoji
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Asako in Ruby Shoes
Aya's Mother
Dearest
Tamiko Hamasaki
The Murder of Kuroido
A Night in Nude
Nami Tsuchiya
Nobody's Perfect
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Speaker
The Exam
Midori Chiaki
Rinco's Restaurant
Ruriko
First Gentleman
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Black Widow Business
Eiko Segawa
橋ものがたり「約束」
Giwaku
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Minoyama
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Nami Muraki
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Virgin Snow
Mayumi Sasaki
Step
Michiyo Muramatsu
Passion
Where The Legend Lives
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Omokage
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Kita no mandokoro
悪女について
Suzuki Tane
Tokyo Rhapsody
Hotel Royal
Miko Noshiro
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Café Lumière
Yoko's Stepmother
Dirty Hearts
Naomi
現ナマ弁護士
My Little Sweet Pea
Ayako Akaike
Hotel Hibiscus
Mieko's Mother
Omotenashi
Mitsuko
The Ice Ruts
요네자와 사유리
Amagi Pass
Straight to Hell
Free and Easy 11
Oka wo koete
Via Okinawa
Winter Rose
Michiko Wataguchi
An Angel with Many Scars
Love Bites Back
Sanae Ebino
Happy-Go-Lucky
Man's Lover in TV Drama
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Invisible War
Kinu Murozono
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
Another Battle
A Stitch of Life
Hiroe Minami
Maria's Stomach
Peaceful Death
お葬式で会いましょう
Welcome to National Treasures
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Kuramoto
夜の終る時
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Time Leap
Enokida Trading Co.
Yoko Shima
Perfect Revolution
Akiko
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Baian the Assassin
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
20th Century Nostalgia
Anzu's Mother
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Managing Director's Daughter
Oh My God
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Orchids Under the Moon
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
The Yakuza Principal
Drugstore Girl
Hideko Mukai
Zen and Bones
Kô Mittwer
Father of the Bride
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Can you collect it? Complete
The Housekeeper
Haruko Inamura
Hysteric
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
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～
Sumomo mo momo
Fireflies: River of Light
Suspicion
An Autumn Afternoon
Akiko Hirayama
Chicken Is Barefoot
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Haru and Tae
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
The President's Christmas Tree
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Timeless Melody
Chikako's Mother