
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)
