Kimiko Yo
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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.Read full biography
TV Shows
16 Tracked Shows
Other Credits
The Gift of Your Heart (2024), The Kind-Hearted Cat (2023), My Happy Divorced Life (2023), Dream Team (2021), Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room (2020), Sugu Shinun Dakara (2020), Toubousha (2020), Death Office (2019), Welcome to National Treasures (2019), Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File (2019), dele (2018), Innocent Days (2018), And Then There Were None (2017), Izakaya Fuji (2017), The Public Enemy (2017), Hello, I Love You (2016), Night Hero NAOTO (2016), REPLAY＆DESTROY (2015), Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma (2014), お葬式で会いましょう (2014), Back of Father (2014), Houkago Groove (2013), Cleopatra na Onnatachi (2012), Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara (2012), Karyuu No Utage (2011), Taro no Tō (2011), 警視庁継続捜査班 (2010), ママは昔パパだった (2009), Daisuki!! (2008), Evil People (2007), Dear Father (2007), 夜の終る時 (2007), Bambino! (2007), 現ナマ弁護士 (2007), Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop (2007), Just One Love (2006), Tokumei! Keiji Dongame (2006), Into the White Night (2006), Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke (2005), Be with You (2005), Affectionate Time (2005), 松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐 (2005), 女の中の二つの顔 (2004), Drop-out Teacher Returns to School (2003), Kao (2003), 女タクシードライバーの事件日誌 (2003), California Dreamin' (2002), 横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) (2002), Churasan (2001), Goodbye Mr Ozu (2001), Love Story (2001), Live (1999), Dangerous Relationship (1999), Kurenai (1998), A Dangerous Woman (1998), The Most Important Person (1997), Middle-aged Bachelors (1997), Virgin Road (1997), Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu (1996), Hakusen Nagashi (1996), Concerto (1996), Say You Love Me (1995), Dangerous Detective (1986)