Cast
Kimiko Yo
Acting
Cast
Kimiko Yo
Known for
Acting
Born
1956-05-12
From
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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.
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Sheep in the Box
as Nobuyo Nishimura
Worst by Chance
as Hatsuko Kim
Departures
as Yuriko Kamimura
Suicide Club
Yamato
Parasyte: Part 1
as Izumi Nobuko
Midnight Diner 2
as Chieko
Star Watching Dog
as Innkeeper
Parasyte: Part 2
as Izumi Nobuko
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Shield of Straw
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
The Ramen Girl
as Reiko
Nobody's Perfect
Black Widow Business
as Eiko Segawa
Air Doll
as Receptionist Yoshiko
Gonin 2
as Ran
Red
as Ogata Yoko
Dearest
as Tamiko Hamasaki
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
as Motoko Ueno
Noise
as Hanae Shoji
Hiruko the Goblin
as Reiko's Mother
Hiruko the Goblin
Bread of Happiness
as Yoko
A Story of Yonosuke
as Taeko Yokomichi
Ace Attorney
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Tokyo Tower
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
A Night in Nude
as Nami Tsuchiya
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
52-Hertz Whales
as Noriko Okada
Dear Doctor
as Akemi Ohtake
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
Immoral Affairs
Yumeji
as Jiro
Midnight Diner
as Chieko Hanawa
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
My SO Has Got Depression
as Satoko Kurita
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
as Mitsuru Funaki
AI Amok
as Eiko Tanaka
Café Lumière
as Yoko's Stepmother
Haunted School
as Yukawa
300 Million Yen Robbery
as Ryoko Nakaoka
Hotel Royal
as Miko Noshiro
The Blue Hearts
as (segment “Hammer”)
A Lone Scalpel
as Shizuka Takei
Galileo XX
as Yoriko Takasaki
Villain
as Yoriko Shimizu
We Shall Overcome Someday
Baian the Assassin
The Heartbreak Yakuza
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
For Love's Sake
as Toyo Taiga
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
as Motoko Ueno
Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Aya's Mother
Where The Legend Lives
Another Battle
Rebirth
as Angel
Any Crybabies Around?
as Setsuko Goto
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Sharaku
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
as Kuramoto
Step
as Michiyo Muramatsu
Soup Opera
as Yasuko Tanaka
Tokyo Rhapsody
Show Me the Way to the Station
Wait and See
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
Love Bites Back
as Sanae Ebino
Rinco's Restaurant
as Ruriko
Farewell, Kuro
as Eri Yuki
Virgin Snow
as Mayumi Sasaki
Alone in the Night
An Angel with Many Scars
Dog Star
Winter Rose
as Michiko Wataguchi
Everything Will Be Owlright!
as Minoyama
Amagi Pass
Giwaku
A Stitch of Life
as Hiroe Minami
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
as Tezuka Yukino
Moonlight Serenade
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Peaceful Death
My Little Sweet Pea
as Ayako Akaike
Time Leap
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
as Kita no mandokoro
Aiki
The Exam
as Midori Chiaki
The Murder of Kuroido
Drugstore Girl
as Hideko Mukai
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
Free and Easy 11
Fireflies: River of Light
First Gentleman
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
Zen and Bones
as Kô Mittwer
Oh My God
The Brutal Insanity of Love
as Nami Muraki
Perfect Revolution
as Akiko
Passion
Orchids Under the Moon
Dirty Hearts
as Naomi
Enokida Trading Co.
as Yoko Shima
Omotenashi
as Mitsuko
The Housekeeper
as Haruko Inamura
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
as Koto
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Hysteric
Sinsin and the Mouse
Hotel Hibiscus
as Mieko's Mother
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Chicken Is Barefoot
20th Century Nostalgia
as Anzu's Mother
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Oka wo koete
The Ice Ruts
as 요네자와 사유리
Can you collect it? Complete
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
Via Okinawa
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
Maria's Stomach
The President's Christmas Tree
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Sleep in the Shadows
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Invisible War
as Kinu Murozono
Omokage
Crossroads
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Managing Director's Daughter
The Yakuza Principal
悪女について
as Suzuki Tane
Father of the Bride
Suspicion
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
Timeless Melody
as Chikako's Mother
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
as Rume
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
An Autumn Afternoon
as Akiko Hirayama
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
as Speaker
橋ものがたり「約束」
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
Sumomo mo momo
Haru and Tae
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
