Kimiko Yo
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.
Movies (151)
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Sheep in the Box
2026
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
52-Hertz Whales
2024
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
Omokage
2023
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
Winter Rose
2022
Noise
2022
First Gentleman
2021
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
Hotel Royal
2020
Peaceful Death
2020
Step
2020
Red
2020
AI Amok
2020
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Giwaku
2019
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
Omotenashi
2018
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
Perfect Revolution
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
The Blue Hearts
2017
Midnight Diner 2
2016
The Ice Ruts
2016
Black Widow Business
2016
Zen and Bones
2016
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
Shin Godzilla
2016
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
A Stitch of Life
2015
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Midnight Diner
2014
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
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
Galileo XX
2013
Shield of Straw
2013
Nobody's Perfect
2013
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
The Housekeeper
2012
Dearest
2012
Dirty Hearts
2012
For Love's Sake
2012
悪女について
2012
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
Ace Attorney
2012
Bread of Happiness
2012
Father of the Bride
2012
Crossroads
2011
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
Star Watching Dog
2011
Rebirth
2011
Soup Opera
2010
Villain
2010
A Lone Scalpel
2010
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
Air Doll
2009
Dear Doctor
2009
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Departures
2008
Oka wo koete
2008
The Ramen Girl
2008
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007
The Yakuza Principal
2007
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Virgin Snow
2007
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
Invisible War
2007
Yamato
2005
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
Tokyo Tower
2005
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
Café Lumière
2004
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Drugstore Girl
2004
Worst by Chance
2003
Farewell, Kuro
2003
Suspicion
2003
An Autumn Afternoon
2003
Aiki
2002
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
Oh My God
2002
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002
Dog Star
2002
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
Suicide Club
2001
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
Another Battle
2000
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
Hysteric
2000
Timeless Melody
2000
Free and Easy 11
2000
The Exam
1999
Wait and See
1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998
Amagi Pass
1998
Immoral Affairs
1997
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
Time Leap
1997
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
Moonlight Serenade
1997
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
Gonin 2
1996
Haunted School
1995
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
Sharaku
1995
Sumomo mo momo
1995
Alone in the Night
1994
Can you collect it? Complete
1994
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994
A Night in Nude
1993
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
Passion
1992
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Yumeji
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991
Baian the Assassin
1990
Maria's Stomach
1990
Via Okinawa
1989
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988
Love Bites Back
1988
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Haru and Tae
TV Shows (72)
Straight to Hell
2026
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
Trillion Game
2023
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
Sanctuary
2023
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
Dream Team
2021
Toubousha
2020
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
2019
Death Office
2019
Welcome to National Treasures
2019
The Naked Director
2019
dele
2018
Half Blue Sky
2018
Innocent Days
2018
The Public Enemy
2017
Izakaya Fuji
2017
And Then There Were None
2017
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Hello, I Love You
2016
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
2014
Back of Father
2014
お葬式で会いましょう
2014
Houkago Groove
2013
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
2012
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
2012
Karyuu No Utage
2011
Taro no Tō
2011
警視庁継続捜査班
2010
ママは昔パパだった
2009
Daisuki!!
2008
Atsuhime
2008
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
2007
Bambino!
2007
Evil People
2007
Dear Father
2007
Just One Love
2006
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Into the White Night
2006
Be with You
2005
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
Affectionate Time
2005
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003
Kao
2003
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
California Dreamin'
2002
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
Love Story
2001
Churasan
2001
Dangerous Relationship
1999
Live
1999
A Dangerous Woman
1998
Middle-aged Bachelors
1997
Virgin Road
1997
Concerto
1996
Hakusen Nagashi
1996
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
Say You Love Me
1995
Dangerous Detective
1986
Dangerous Detective
1986