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Kimiko Yo

12th May 1956 Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Acting

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.

152 Movies 79 TV Shows 1 In Production 232 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Noise poster
Noise 27th January 2022 as Hanae Shoji
Step poster
Step 17th July 2020 as Michiyo Muramatsu
Red poster
Red 21st February 2020 as Ogata Yoko
AI Amok poster
AI Amok 31st January 2020 as Eiko Tanaka
Shin Godzilla poster
Shin Godzilla 29th July 2016 as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Dearest poster
Dearest 25th August 2012 as Tamiko Hamasaki
Villain poster
Villain 11th September 2010 as Yoriko Shimizu
Air Doll poster
Air Doll 26th September 2009 as Receptionist Yoshiko
Aiki poster
Aiki 29th November 2002
Daisuki!! poster
Daisuki!! 17th January 2008 as Setsuko Kachigawa
Kao poster
Kao 8th April 2003 as Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
Sinsin and the Mouse poster Coming soon
Sinsin and the Mouse 26th June 2026