Kimiko Yo
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.
232 acting credits
Acting · 232
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
The Naked Director
2019
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
Churasan
2001
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
Half Blue Sky
2018
Back of Father
2014
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
Atsuhime
2008
Shin Godzilla
2016
dele
2018
Straight to Hell
2026
Dangerous Detective
1986
Into the White Night
2006
Sanctuary
2023
Trillion Game
2023
Taro no Tō
2011
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Hakusen Nagashi
1996
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
Dear Father
2007
Affectionate Time
2005
Kao
2003
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
Worst by Chance
2003
Bambino!
2007
Say You Love Me
1995
Daisuki!!
2008
The Public Enemy
2017
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
Live
1999
Death Office
2019
Sheep in the Box
2026
Karyuu No Utage
2011
Be with You
2005
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Concerto
1996
Maria's Stomach
1990
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
Love Story
2001
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
Izakaya Fuji
2017
Just One Love
2006
Suicide Club
2001
Innocent Days
2018
And Then There Were None
2017
Evil People
2007
Departures
2008
Hello, I Love You
2016
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
Toubousha
2020
Yamato
2005
California Dreamin'
2002
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
Dream Team
2021
Virgin Road
1997
Air Doll
2009
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
1996
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
2012
Galileo XX
2013
A Night in Nude
1993
夜の終る時
2007
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
Red
2020
The Ramen Girl
2008
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
警視庁継続捜査班
2010
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Middle-aged Bachelors
1997
Dangerous Relationship
1999
Shield of Straw
2013
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
AI Amok
2020
Ace Attorney
2012
Midnight Diner
2014
52-Hertz Whales
2024
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
Nobody's Perfect
2013
Kurenai
1998
A Dangerous Woman
1998
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
女の中の二つの顔
2004
Rebirth
2011
Haunted School
1995
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
Gonin 2
1996
お葬式で会いましょう
2014
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
Wait and See
1998
Villain
2010
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
Bread of Happiness
2012
Midnight Diner 2
2016
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Dearest
2012
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
ママは昔パパだった
2009
Café Lumière
2004
Winter Rose
2022
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
Noise
2022
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
2007
The Exam
1999
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
2012
For Love's Sake
2012
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
First Gentleman
2021
Hotel Royal
2020
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Black Widow Business
2016
Sharaku
1995
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
2014
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
Dog Star
2002
The Blue Hearts
2017
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Tokyo Tower
2005
Omotenashi
2018
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
Star Watching Dog
2011
Yumeji
1991
Dear Doctor
2009
Passion
1992
Alone in the Night
1994
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
Farewell, Kuro
2003
The Most Important Person
1997
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998
Zen and Bones
2016
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Step
2020
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
Baian the Assassin
1990
Soup Opera
2010
Crossroads
2011
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
Peaceful Death
2020
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Virgin Snow
2007
Invisible War
2007
The Housekeeper
2012
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
Moonlight Serenade
1997
Amagi Pass
1998
Time Leap
1997
Perfect Revolution
2017
Giwaku
2019
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
A Stitch of Life
2015
Another Battle
2000
The Ice Ruts
2016
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
Love Bites Back
1988
Welcome to National Treasures
2019
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
Houkago Groove
2013
現ナマ弁護士
2007
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
Hysteric
2000
Free and Easy 11
2000
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
Dirty Hearts
2012
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
Immoral Affairs
1997
The Yakuza Principal
2007
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005
Father of the Bride
2012
Can you collect it? Complete
1994
Omokage
2023
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Via Okinawa
1989
Oh My God
2002
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
悪女について
2012
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991
Aiki
2002
Suspicion
2003
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
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Sumomo mo momo
1995
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
Timeless Melody
2000
謎解きはディナーのあとで スペシャル～風祭警部の事件簿～
2013
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
2005
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
2003
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
Drugstore Girl
2004
Haru and Tae
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The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024
An Autumn Afternoon
2003
Oka wo koete
2008
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991