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.
10 TV shows
TV Shows
The Naked Director
Netflix
Straight to Hell
Netflix
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Nippon TV
Half Blue Sky
NHK G
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
tv asahi
Atsuhime
NHK BS1
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Fuji TV
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Nippon TV
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
NHK G
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Netflix
Other Credits
Dream Team, Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke, Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room, Just One Love, Say You Love Me, Churasan, Tokumei! Keiji Dongame, Live, Kurenai, Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu, The Most Important Person, A Dangerous Woman, Drop-out Teacher Returns to School, Evil People, Dangerous Relationship, Middle-aged Bachelors, Goodbye Mr Ozu, Kao, 女タクシードライバーの事件日誌, Karyuu No Utage, 警視庁継続捜査班, 女の中の二つの顔, Death Office, Into the White Night, Dear Father, REPLAY＆DESTROY, California Dreamin', Daisuki!!, Sanctuary, The Kind-Hearted Cat, Trillion Game, And Then There Were None, 夜の終る時, Bambino!, Izakaya Fuji, The Public Enemy, 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS), 現ナマ弁護士, Welcome to National Treasures, The Gift of Your Heart, Taro no Tō, Cleopatra na Onnatachi, Virgin Road, Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma, Be with You, dele, Hello, I Love You, Night Hero NAOTO, Innocent Days, Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire, Hakusen Nagashi, My Happy Divorced Life, Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File, Shinjuku Field Hospital, Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop, ママは昔パパだった, お葬式で会いましょう, Affectionate Time, Back of Father, Sugu Shinun Dakara, Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara, Concerto, Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai, Houkago Groove, Toubousha, 松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐, Dangerous Detective, Usotoki Rhetoric, Love Story