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

The Kind-Hearted Cat

The Exam

Sumomo mo momo

Maria's Stomach

The Gift of Your Heart

Churasan

Atsuhime

Worst by Chance

Hysteric

Hakusen Nagashi

The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark

Orchids Under the Moon

The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk

The Public Enemy

Black Widow Business

52-Hertz Whales

Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy

Chacha: The Princess of Heaven

Dear Father

Rinco's Restaurant

Dangerous Detective

Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter

Shinjuku Field Hospital

Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan

Back of Father

Karyuu No Utage

Straight to Hell

Soup Opera

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

The Yakuza Principal

Affectionate Time

Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai

Sanctuary

Half Blue Sky

An Angel with Many Scars

The President's Christmas Tree

Departures

The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral

dele

Midnight Diner

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

Everything Will Be Owlright!

Rebirth

Star Watching Dog

Trillion Game

Midnight Diner 2

Daisuki!!

Innocent Days