Kimiko Yo
1956-05-12 ( 68 years old ) in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

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

Omokage 2023-03-27
Winter Rose 2022-06-03
Noise 2022-01-27
Hotel Royal 2020-11-13
Peaceful Death 2020-07-25
Step 2020-07-17
Red 2020-02-21
AI Amok 2020-01-31
Giwaku 2019-02-03
Omotenashi 2018-03-03
The Ice Ruts 2016-11-05
Zen and Bones 2016-08-26
Shin Godzilla 2016-07-29
Midnight Diner 2014-11-01
Galileo XX 2013-06-22
Dearest 2012-08-25
Dirty Hearts 2012-07-21
Black Dawn 2012-06-02
Ace Attorney 2012-02-11
Crossroads 2011-12-03
Rebirth 2011-04-29
Soup Opera 2010-10-02
Villain 2010-09-11
A Lone Scalpel 2010-06-05
Air Doll 2009-09-26
Dear Doctor 2009-07-27
Departures 2008-09-13
Oka wo koete 2008-05-17
The Ramen Girl 2008-02-08
Virgin Snow 2007-05-12
Tokyo Rhapsody 2007-05-12
Invisible War 2007-02-10
Yamato 2005-12-17
Pacchigi! 2005-01-22
Tokyo Tower 2005-01-15
Café Lumière 2004-09-01
Farewell, Kuro 2003-07-01
Suspicion 2003-03-22
Aiki 2002-11-29
Hotel Hibiscus 2002-10-28
Oh My God 2002-07-06
Dog Star 2002-04-27
Suicide Club 2001-10-29
Another Battle 2000-11-25
Hysteric 2000-05-07
The Exam 1999-07-03
Wait and See 1998-12-19
Amagi Pass 1998-01-01
Time Leap 1997-06-07
Happy-Go-Lucky 1997-03-17
Gonin 2 1996-06-29
Haunted School 1995-07-08
Sharaku 1995-06-02
Sumomo mo momo 1995-05-13
Passion 1992-04-25
Yumeji 1991-05-31
Via Okinawa 1989-06-09