Kimiko Yo
Biography
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.
Acting (143 movies)
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Noise
2022
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Can you collect it? Complete
1994
Villain
2010
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
Worst by Chance
2003
Departures
2008
Gonin 2
1996
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
The Ramen Girl
2008
The Exam
1999
Virgin Snow
2007
Another Battle
2000
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002
Rebirth
2011
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
First Gentleman
2021
For Love's Sake
2012
Star Watching Dog
2011
Crossroads
2011
Dearest
2012
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Bread of Happiness
2012
Sumomo mo momo
1995
Dog Star
2002
Winter Rose
2022
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
2017
Dear Doctor
2009
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
Aiki
2002
Café Lumière
2004
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988
Nobody's Perfect
2013
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Midnight Diner
2014
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
Hysteric
2000
Invisible War
2007
Tokyo Tower
2005
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
Time Leap
1997
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
52-Hertz Whales
2024
悪女について
2012
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
A Night in Nude
1993
Alone in the Night
1994
Black Dawn
2012
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Wait and See
1998
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
Omokage
2023
Shin Godzilla
2016
Maria's Stomach
1990
Suicide Club
2001
Black Widow Business
2016
Midnight Diner 2
2016
Moonlight Serenade
1997
Pacchigi!
2005
The Blue Hearts
2017
Air Doll
2009
Perfect Revolution
2017
Timeless Melody
2000
Love Bites Back
1988
Via Okinawa
1989
Omotenashi
2018
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
Haunted School
1995
Zen and Bones
2016
The Housekeeper
2012
The Ice Ruts
2016
Passion
1992
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
Oka wo koete
2008
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
A Lone Scalpel
2010
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