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.
Filmography
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The Canary's Lullaby
Two Cigarettes, Three Nights
The Invisibles
Sinsin and the Mouse
Sheep in the Box
Euthanasia Special Zone
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
橋ものがたり「約束」
52-Hertz Whales
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Omokage
To Me, the One Who Loved You
To Every You I've Loved Before
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Noise
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Fuyu Soubi
The First Gentleman
Any Crybabies Around?
Peaceful Death
Step
Red
Hotel Royal
AI Amok
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Sleep in the Shadows
An Artist of the Floating World
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Giwaku
Show Me the Way to the Station
Enokida Trading Co.
The Murder of Kuroido
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Omotenashi
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
The Blue Hearts
Perfect Revolution
The Ice Ruts
Midnight Diner 2
Zen and Bones
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Shin Godzilla
Black Widow Business
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Parasyte: Part 2
A Stitch of Life
Solomon's Perjury
Solomon's Perjury 2
Parasyte: Part 1
Midnight Diner
300 Million Yen Robbery
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
The After-Dinner Mysteries SP: Inspector Kazamatsuri's Case File
Galileo XX
Shield of Straw
A Story of Yonosuke
Nobody's Perfect
My Little Sweet Pea
The Housekeeper
Dearest
悪女について
Ace Attorney
Father of the Bride
Bread of Happiness
For Love's Sake
Black Dawn
My SO Has Got Depression
Star Watching Dog
Rebirth
Dirty Hearts
Crossroads
Villain
Rinco's Restaurant
Soup Opera
A Lone Scalpel
Air Doll
Dear Doctor
Departures
The Ramen Girl
Where the Legend Lives
Oka o koete
The Yakuza Principal
Tokyo Rhapsody
Virgin Snow
Tonari machi sensô
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Yamato
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
We Shall Overcome Someday
Tokyo Tower
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Café Lumière
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Chicken Is Barefoot
Suspicion
An Autumn Afternoon
Fireflies: River of Light
Drugstore Girl
Worst by Chance
Farewell, Kuro
Oh My God
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
Hotel Hibiscus
Aiki
Dog Star
Suicide Club
Asako in Ruby Shoes- 巡査巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Free and Easy 11
Another Battle
Hysteric
A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen
安藤組外伝 群狼の系譜５
Ojuken
Timeless Melody
Wait and See
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Amagi Pass
Immoral Affairs
20th Century Nostalgia- 姑は姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
Time Leap
An Angel with Many Scars
Happy-Go-Lucky
Moonlight Serenade
The President's Christmas Tree
Gonin 2
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
Sharaku
Sumomo mo momo
Haunted School
Alone in the Night
Can you collect it? Complete
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
A Night in Nude
Gorotsuki 2
Nemuranai machi - Shinjuku same
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Passion- 寝台寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Orchids Under the Moon
Yumeji
Hiruko the Goblin
Umi sora sango-no iitsutae
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
河内残侠伝 軍鶏（シャモ）
Baian the Assassin
Maria's Stomach
A Sign Days
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Love Bites Back
Saraba itoshiki hito yo