
Kimiko Yo
Known for ActingBorn 1956-05-12 (age 70)Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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 more
Movies & web series
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The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023 · Series
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The Exam
1999 · Movie
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Sumomo mo momo
1995 · Movie
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Maria's Stomach
1990 · Movie
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The Gift of Your Heart
2024 · Series
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Churasan
2001 · Series
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Atsuhime
2008 · Series
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Worst by Chance
2003 · Movie
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Hysteric
2000 · Movie
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Hakusen Nagashi
1996 · Series
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The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993 · Movie
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Orchids Under the Moon
1991 · Movie
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The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015 · Series
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The Public Enemy
2017 · Series
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Black Widow Business
2016 · Movie
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52-Hertz Whales
2024 · Movie
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Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023 · Movie
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Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007 · Movie
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Dear Father
2007 · Series
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Rinco's Restaurant
2010 · Movie
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Dangerous Detective
1986 · Series
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Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017 · Movie
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Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024 · Series
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Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016 · Movie
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Back of Father
2014 · Series
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Karyuu No Utage
2011 · Series
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Straight to Hell
2026 · Series
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Soup Opera
2010 · Movie
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Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016 · Series
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The Yakuza Principal
2007 · Movie
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Affectionate Time
2005 · Series
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Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024 · Series
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Sanctuary
2023 · Series
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Half Blue Sky
2018 · Series
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An Angel with Many Scars
1997 · Movie
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The President's Christmas Tree
1996 · Movie
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Departures
2008 · Movie
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The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991 · Movie
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dele
2018 · Series
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Midnight Diner
2014 · Movie
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A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000 · Movie
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Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022 · Movie
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Rebirth
2011 · Movie
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Star Watching Dog
2011 · Movie
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Trillion Game
2023 · Series
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Midnight Diner 2
2016 · Movie
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Daisuki!!
2008 · Series
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Innocent Days
2018 · Series