Kimiko Yo
Acting
Born: 1956-05-12 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography
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.
Known For
Shin Godzilla
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Departures
Yuriko Kamimura
Suicide Club
The Ramen Girl
Reiko
Parasyte: Part 1
Izumi Nobuko
Air Doll
Receptionist Yoshiko
Parasyte: Part 2
Izumi Nobuko
The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
Shield of Straw
Ace Attorney
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Red
Ogata Yoko
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
A Story of Yonosuke
Taeko Yokomichi
Hiruko the Goblin
Reiko's Mother
Hiruko the Goblin
Midnight Diner
Chieko Hanawa
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Chieko Tachibana
Café Lumière
Yoko's Stepmother
Sanctuary
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Villain
Yoriko Shimizu
Yamato
Bread of Happiness
Yoko
Midnight Diner 2
Chieko
Yumeji
Jiro
For Love's Sake
Toyo Taiga
Sheep in the Box
Nobuyo Nishimura
Virgin Snow
Mayumi Sasaki
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Rebirth
Angel
Straight to Hell
Kiyo Mita
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
Dear Doctor
Akemi Ohtake
A Night in Nude
Nami Tsuchiya
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Mitsuru Funaki
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Motoko Ueno
Galileo XX
Yoriko Takasaki
dele
Into the White Night
Taniguchi Mafumi
Star Watching Dog
Innkeeper