Kimiko Yo
Acting
- Born:
- 1956-05-12
- Place of birth:
- 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
Filmography
Okinawa Confidential
The Canary's Lullaby
Two Cigarettes, Three Nights
深夜食堂 6
The Invisibles
Sinsin and the Mouse
Sheep in the Box
Straight to Hell
Euthanasia Special Zone
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
おもかげ
Usotoki Rhetoric
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
52-Hertz Whales
橋ものがたり「約束」
The Gift of Your Heart
Trillion Game
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
Sanctuary
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Omokage
Angel Flight
My Happy Divorced Life
To Every You I've Loved Before
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Winter Rose
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Noise
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Matrilineal Family
First Gentleman
Dream Team
Toubousha
Any Crybabies Around?
Hotel Royal
Sugu Shinun Dakara
Peaceful Death
Step
Red
AI Amok
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Show Me the Way to the Station
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
Death Office
Welcome to National Treasures
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Sleep in the Shadows
The Naked Director
An Artist of the Floating World
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
Giwaku
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
dele
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Enokida Trading Co.
The Murder of Kuroido