Kimiko Yo
Acting
🎂 1956-05-12
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.
Cast credits(224)
Kozue Muranishi
2019
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
2016
Hiruko Kirigoe
1995
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
2024
1991
(voice)
2019
Izumi Nobuko
2014
Kimika Okada
2018
Mieko's Mother
2002
Chieko Tachibana
2016
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
2005
2008
Yoriko Musubi
2016
Receptionist Yoshiko
2009
Ruriko
2010
2005
1991
Haruko Inamura
2012
Ogata Yoko
2020
Setsuko Goto
2020
2023
2024
1995
1995
1997
Hisa-hime
2008
Izumi Nobuko
2015
(segment “Hammer”)
2017
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
Eri Yuki
2003
Michiko Wataguchi
2022
Kita no mandokoro
2007
1994
Suzuki Tane
2012
Hatsuko Kim
2003
Taniguchi Mafumi
2006
1990
1992
Yuko
1986
Hiromi Nagisa
1986
Togawa Yasuko
2014
2007
Hiruko Kirigoe
2022
Yuriko Kamimura
2008
2018
Ryoko Nakaoka
2014
2008
2019
Mitsuzono Shizuku
2023
2023
Mitsuko
2018
Ayako Akaike
2013
2004
1987
Angel
2011
Yukino Aihara
2024
Chieko
2016
1997
2012
1995
Mrs. Saito
2019
Mayumi Sasaki
2007
Kaoru Kanzaki
1995
Toyo Taiga
2012
Noriko Okada
2024
Yoko's Stepmother
2004
Shibata Yoko
2001
Aya's Mother
2000
Shizuka Takei
2010
Yasuko Tanaka
2010
2004
2023
Yoriko Shimizu
2010
2000
1997
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
2005
1998
2019
2001
Hanae Shoji
2022
Shingu
2019
Koto
2017
Eiko Segawa
2016
2000
Nami Tsuchiya
1993
Hongo Naomi
2005
Yukawa
1995
Minoyama
2022
Michi
1997
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
2012
2007
Reiko's Mother
1991
1991
Motoko Ueno
2015
Kô Mittwer
2016
Sanae Ebino
1988
2021
Setsuko Kachigawa
2008
Reiko
2008
高橋文世
2024
Tendo Ichiko
2024
Taeko Yokomichi
2013
Masako Ozawa
1996
2011
2018
Motoko Ueno
2015
Miko Noshiro
2020
Eiko Tanaka
2020
2023
2013
2013
2012
2020
Miyagi Yoko
2011
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
2018
2019
2000
2006
2004
Akiko Kawarada
2017
2005
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
1998
2020
2000
Akiko Kanzaki
2006
Mitsuru Funaki
2013
Chieko Hanawa
2014
Yukiko Ando
2003
Kujo Tomoko
2005
Akiko
2017
Satoko Kurita
2011
1989
Jiro
1991
Anzu's Mother
1997
1994
Shibusawa Wakako
2020
Michiko Tanaka
2018
Chikako's Mother
2000
Fortune Teller
2007
1997
1991
2001
2000
Matsuko
2023
2002
1991
1996
Akemi Ohtake
2009
2002
Kumi Muramatsu
2012
Kuramoto
1998
権田薫子
2016
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
2003
南雲喜里子
2019
Midori Chiaki
1999
2001
2019
Mori Kaoru
2020
요네자와 사유리
2016
Michiyo Muramatsu
2020
2010
엔죠지 치에코
2007
Erika Konami
2017
1997
2017
Chise Fujishima
2007
Yoshie Andou
2021
Hiroe Minami
2015
2012
2012
Yoko Shima
2018
1991
2007
2003
Managing Director's Daughter
1988
Yoko
2012
1990
2005
Innkeeper
2011
2023
1991
1998
Yoriko Takasaki
2013
2014
2002
Machi Domoto
2016
2013
Ran
1996
Ayako Tsuzuki
1999
2007
우에노 마키코
2009
Kinu Murozono
2007
2004
1994
Nami Muraki
1993
2007
1999
1997
1996
fortune-teller woman
2015
Speaker
2015
2011
2016
2019
Nonaka Tomiko
2014
2007
Man's Lover in TV Drama
1997
1998
Naomi
2012
2003
1996
1993
2004
2005
2002
Tezuka Yukino
2005
Tamiko Hamasaki
2012
1997
2002
2017
Rume
2002
2002