Kimiko Yo
Acting • Born 1956-05-12
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.
Filmography
231 credits
Show Me the Way to the Station
Movie • 2019
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
Movie • 2000
Noise
Movie • 2022
Hanae Shoji
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Movie • 2016
Farewell, Kuro
Movie • 2003
Eri Yuki
Can you collect it? Complete
Movie • 1994
Villain
Movie • 2010
Yoriko Shimizu
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
Movie • 1994
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Movie • 2000
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
Movie • 1991
Hiruko the Goblin
Movie • 1991
Reiko's Mother
Worst by Chance
Movie • 2003
Hatsuko Kim
Departures
Movie • 2008
Yuriko Kamimura
Gonin 2
Movie • 1996
Ran
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
Movie • 1995
The Ramen Girl
Movie • 2008
Reiko
The Exam
Movie • 1999
Midori Chiaki
Virgin Snow
Movie • 2007
Mayumi Sasaki
Another Battle
Movie • 2000
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Movie
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Movie • 2002
Rume
Rebirth
Movie • 2011
Angel
Rinco's Restaurant
Movie • 2010
Ruriko
First Gentleman
Movie • 2021
For Love's Sake
Movie • 2012
Toyo Taiga
Star Watching Dog
Movie • 2011
Innkeeper
Crossroads
Movie • 2011
Dearest
Movie • 2012
Tamiko Hamasaki
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Movie • 2019
(voice)
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Movie • 2019
Bread of Happiness
Movie • 2012
Yoko
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
Movie • 1997
Sumomo mo momo
Movie • 1995
Dog Star
Movie • 2002
Winter Rose
Movie • 2022
Michiko Wataguchi
Orchids Under the Moon
Movie • 1991
My SO Has Got Depression
Movie • 2011
Satoko Kurita
My Little Sweet Pea
Movie • 2013
Ayako Akaike
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Movie • 2013
Mitsuru Funaki
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Movie • 2017
Dear Doctor
Movie • 2009
Akemi Ohtake
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Movie • 1993
Nami Muraki
To Every You I've Loved Before
Movie • 2022
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Movie • 2022
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Aiki
Movie • 2002
Café Lumière
Movie • 2004
Yoko's Stepmother
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Movie • 2023
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Movie • 1988
Managing Director's Daughter
Nobody's Perfect
Movie • 2013
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Movie • 2022
Minoyama
An Angel with Many Scars
Movie • 1997
Midnight Diner
Movie • 2014
Chieko Hanawa
Happy-Go-Lucky
Movie • 1997
Man's Lover in TV Drama
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Movie • 1993
Parasyte: Part 1
Movie • 2014
Izumi Nobuko
Parasyte: Part 2
Movie • 2015
Izumi Nobuko
Hotel Hibiscus
Movie • 2002
Mieko's Mother
Hysteric
Movie • 2000
Invisible War
Movie • 2007
Kinu Murozono
Tokyo Tower
Movie • 2005
Where The Legend Lives
Movie • 2008
Tokyo Rhapsody
Movie • 2007
Time Leap
Movie • 1997
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Movie • 1991
52-Hertz Whales
Movie • 2024
Noriko Okada
悪女について
Movie • 2012
Suzuki Tane
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Movie • 2015
Speaker
300 Million Yen Robbery
Movie • 2014
Ryoko Nakaoka
A Night in Nude
Movie • 1993
Nami Tsuchiya
Alone in the Night
Movie • 1994
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Movie • 2007
A Story of Yonosuke
Movie • 2013
Taeko Yokomichi
Fireflies: River of Light
Movie • 2004
Wait and See
Movie • 1998
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Movie • 1991
Omokage
Movie • 2023
Shin Godzilla
Movie • 2016
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Maria's Stomach
Movie • 1990
Suicide Club
Movie • 2001
Black Widow Business
Movie • 2016
Eiko Segawa
Midnight Diner 2
Movie • 2016
Chieko
Moonlight Serenade
Movie • 1997
We Shall Overcome Someday
Movie • 2005
The Blue Hearts
Movie • 2017
(segment “Hammer”)
Air Doll
Movie • 2009
Receptionist Yoshiko
Perfect Revolution
Movie • 2017
Akiko
Timeless Melody
Movie • 2000
Chikako's Mother
Love Bites Back
Movie • 1988
Sanae Ebino
Via Okinawa
Movie • 1989
Omotenashi
Movie • 2018
Mitsuko
The Heartbreak Yakuza
Movie • 1987
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Movie • 2017
Koto
20th Century Nostalgia
Movie • 1997
Anzu's Mother
Haunted School
Movie • 1995
Yukawa
Zen and Bones
Movie • 2016
Kô Mittwer
The Housekeeper
Movie • 2012
Haruko Inamura
The Ice Ruts
Movie • 2016
요네자와 사유리
Passion
Movie • 1992
The President's Christmas Tree
Movie • 1996
Enokida Trading Co.
Movie • 2018
Yoko Shima
Oka wo koete
Movie • 2008
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Movie • 2004
A Lone Scalpel
Movie • 2010
Shizuka Takei
The Murder of Kuroido
Movie • 2018
Amagi Pass
Movie • 1998
AI Amok
Movie • 2020
Eiko Tanaka
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Movie • 2007
Kita no mandokoro
Yumeji
Movie • 1991
Jiro
Dirty Hearts
Movie • 2012
Naomi
Oh My God
Movie • 2002
Immoral Affairs
Movie • 1997
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Movie • 2004
Shield of Straw
Movie • 2013
Asako in Ruby Shoes
Movie • 2000
Aya's Mother
Free and Easy 11
Movie • 2000
Yamato
Movie • 2005
Red
Movie • 2020
Ogata Yoko
Hotel Royal
Movie • 2020
Miko Noshiro
Giwaku
Movie • 2019
Ace Attorney
Movie • 2012
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Movie • 2018
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Any Crybabies Around?
Movie • 2020
Setsuko Goto
Father of the Bride
Movie • 2012
Sharaku
Movie • 1995
Soup Opera
Movie • 2010
Yasuko Tanaka
Step
Movie • 2020
Michiyo Muramatsu
Peaceful Death
Movie • 2020
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
Movie • 2002
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Movie • 2015
Motoko Ueno
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Movie • 2015
Motoko Ueno
Baian the Assassin
Movie • 1990
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
Movie • 1991
An Artist of the Floating World
Movie • 2019
Mrs. Saito
Sleep in the Shadows
Movie • 2019
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Movie • 1998
Kuramoto
A Stitch of Life
Movie • 2015
Hiroe Minami
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Movie • 2012
The Yakuza Principal
Movie • 2007
Galileo XX
Movie • 2013
Yoriko Takasaki
Suspicion
Movie • 2003
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
Movie • 1991
Hiruko the Goblin
Movie • 1991
Chicken Is Barefoot
Movie • 2004
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Movie • 2005
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Movie • 2005
Tezuka Yukino
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
Movie • 2026
An Autumn Afternoon
Movie • 2003
Akiko Hirayama
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～
Movie • 2013
Haru and Tae
Movie
Drugstore Girl
Movie • 2004
Hideko Mukai
橋ものがたり「約束」
Movie • 2024
Dream Team
TV • 2021
Yoshie Andou
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
TV • 2005
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
TV • 2020
Shibusawa Wakako
Just One Love
TV • 2006
Akiko Kanzaki
Say You Love Me
TV • 1995
Kaoru Kanzaki
Churasan
TV • 2001
Shibata Yoko
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
TV • 2006
Live
TV • 1999
Kurenai
TV • 1998
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
TV • 1996
The Most Important Person
TV • 1997
A Dangerous Woman
TV • 1998
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
TV • 2003
Yukiko Ando
Evil People
TV • 2007
Chise Fujishima
Dangerous Relationship
TV • 1999
Ayako Tsuzuki
Middle-aged Bachelors
TV • 1997
Goodbye Mr Ozu
TV • 2001
Kao
TV • 2003
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
TV • 2003
Karyuu No Utage
TV • 2011
Miyagi Yoko
警視庁継続捜査班
TV • 2010
女の中の二つの顔
TV • 2004
Death Office
TV • 2019
Shingu
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
TV • 2023
Into the White Night
TV • 2006
Taniguchi Mafumi
Dear Father
TV • 2007
Fortune Teller
REPLAY＆DESTROY
TV • 2015
fortune-teller woman
California Dreamin'
TV • 2002
Kyoko Yamazaki
Daisuki!!
TV • 2008
Setsuko Kachigawa
Sanctuary
TV • 2023
The Kind-Hearted Cat
TV • 2023
Matsuko
Trillion Game
TV • 2023
Mitsuzono Shizuku
And Then There Were None
TV • 2017
Erika Konami
夜の終る時
TV • 2007
Bambino!
TV • 2007
Izakaya Fuji
TV • 2017
The Public Enemy
TV • 2017
Akiko Kawarada
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
TV • 2002
現ナマ弁護士
TV • 2007
Welcome to National Treasures
TV • 2019
The Gift of Your Heart
TV • 2024
Yukino Aihara
Taro no Tō
TV • 2011
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
TV • 2012
The Files of Young Kindaichi
TV • 2022
Hiruko Kirigoe
Virgin Road
TV • 1997
Michi
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
TV • 2014
Nonaka Tomiko
Be with You
TV • 2005
Hongo Naomi
dele
TV • 2018
Hello, I Love You
TV • 2016
Machi Domoto
Half Blue Sky
TV • 2018
Kimika Okada
Night Hero NAOTO
TV • 2016
権田薫子
Innocent Days
TV • 2018
Michiko Tanaka
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
TV • 2024
Tendo Ichiko
Atsuhime
TV • 2008
Hisa-hime
The Naked Director
TV • 2019
Kozue Muranishi
Hakusen Nagashi
TV • 1996
Masako Ozawa
My Happy Divorced Life
TV • 2023
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
TV • 2019
南雲喜里子
Shinjuku Field Hospital
TV • 2024
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
TV • 2016
Yoriko Musubi
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
TV • 2007
엔죠지 치에코
ママは昔パパだった
TV • 2009
우에노 마키코
お葬式で会いましょう
TV • 2014
Affectionate Time
TV • 2005
Kujo Tomoko
Back of Father
TV • 2014
Togawa Yasuko
Sugu Shinun Dakara
TV • 2020
Mori Kaoru
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
TV • 2012
Concerto
TV • 1996
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
TV • 2024
高橋文世
Houkago Groove
TV • 2013
Toubousha
TV • 2020
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
TV • 1995
Hiruko Kirigoe
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
TV • 2005
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
TV • 2016
Chieko Tachibana
Dangerous Detective
TV • 1986
Yuko
Dangerous Detective
TV • 1986
Hiromi Nagisa
Usotoki Rhetoric
TV • 2024
Love Story
TV • 2001
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
TV • 2015
Straight to Hell
TV • 2026