Kimiko Yo
Known for Acting · 232 credits
- Born
- 1956-05-12 (age 70)
- 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
TV Shows (79)
The Naked Director
2019
as Kozue Muranishi
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
as Hiruko Kirigoe
Half Blue Sky
2018
as Kimika Okada
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
as Yoriko Musubi
Churasan
2001
as Shibata Yoko
Atsuhime
2008
as Hisa-hime
Straight to Hell
2026
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
as Chieko Tachibana
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
Back of Father
2014
as Togawa Yasuko
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
as Hiruko Kirigoe
Dangerous Detective
1986
as Yuko / Hiromi Nagisa
dele
2018
Sanctuary
2023
Say You Love Me
1995
as Kaoru Kanzaki
Into the White Night
2006
as Taniguchi Mafumi
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
as Shibusawa Wakako
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Hakusen Nagashi
1996
as Masako Ozawa
Trillion Game
2023
as Mitsuzono Shizuku
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
as Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
as Tendo Ichiko
Death Office
2019
as Shingu
Bambino!
2007
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
as 高橋文世
Daisuki!!
2008
as Setsuko Kachigawa
Kao
2003
as Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
Be with You
2005
as Hongo Naomi
Dear Father
2007
as Fortune Teller
Taro no Tō
2011
Karyuu No Utage
2011
as Miyagi Yoko
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
as Yukino Aihara
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
The Public Enemy
2017
as Akiko Kawarada
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003
as Yukiko Ando
Izakaya Fuji
2017
Affectionate Time
2005
as Kujo Tomoko
Love Story
2001
Hello, I Love You
2016
as Machi Domoto
Concerto
1996
Just One Love
2006
as Akiko Kanzaki
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
California Dreamin'
2002
as Kyoko Yamazaki
Innocent Days
2018
as Michiko Tanaka
Live
1999
Dream Team
2021
as Yoshie Andou
And Then There Were None
2017
as Erika Konami
Virgin Road
1997
as Michi
Toubousha
2020
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
as fortune-teller woman
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
as Matsuko
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
as Mori Kaoru
Evil People
2007
as Chise Fujishima
Dangerous Relationship
1999
as Ayako Tsuzuki
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
as 権田薫子
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
A Dangerous Woman
1998
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Kurenai
1998
Movies (153)
Shin Godzilla
2016
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Sheep in the Box
2026
as Nobuyo Nishimura
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
as Koto
Departures
2008
as Yuriko Kamimura
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
as Izumi Nobuko
Worst by Chance
2003
as Hatsuko Kim
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Suicide Club
2001
Midnight Diner 2
2016
as Chieko
Yamato
2005
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
as Izumi Nobuko
Shield of Straw
2013
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Black Widow Business
2016
as Eiko Segawa
Star Watching Dog
2011
as Innkeeper
Dearest
2012
as Tamiko Hamasaki
Air Doll
2009
as Receptionist Yoshiko
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
as Taeko Yokomichi
A Night in Nude
1993
as Nami Tsuchiya
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
as Satoko Kurita
The Ramen Girl
2008
as Reiko
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
as Reiko's Mother
Tokyo Tower
2005
Noise
2022
as Hanae Shoji
Nobody's Perfect
2013
Gonin 2
1996
as Ran
Ace Attorney
2012
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
as Motoko Ueno
52-Hertz Whales
2024
as Noriko Okada
Bread of Happiness
2012
as Yoko
Galileo XX
2013
as Yoriko Takasaki
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
as Motoko Ueno
Red
2020
as Ogata Yoko
Another Battle
2000
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
as Mrs. Saito
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
as Suzuki
AI Amok
2020
as Eiko Tanaka
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
Midnight Diner
2014
as Chieko Hanawa
A Lone Scalpel
2010
as Shizuka Takei
Sharaku
1995
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
Yumeji
1991
as Jiro
A Stitch of Life
2015
as Hiroe Minami
Villain
2010
as Yoriko Shimizu
For Love's Sake
2012
as Toyo Taiga
Wait and See
1998
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
as Ryoko Nakaoka
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Step
2020
as Michiyo Muramatsu
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
Haunted School
1995
as Yukawa
Moonlight Serenade
1997
Hotel Royal
2020
as Miko Noshiro
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
as Aya's Mother
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Rebirth
2011
as Angel
Dear Doctor
2009
as Akemi Ohtake
Virgin Snow
2007
as Mayumi Sasaki
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Farewell, Kuro
2003
as Eri Yuki
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
The Blue Hearts
2017
as (segment “Hammer”)
Peaceful Death
2020
Immoral Affairs
1997
Love Bites Back
1988
as Sanae Ebino
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
as Mitsuru Funaki
The Exam
1999
as Midori Chiaki
Dog Star
2002
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
Alone in the Night
1994
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
as Ayako Akaike
Café Lumière
2004
as Yoko's Stepmother
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007
as Kita no mandokoro
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Baian the Assassin
1990
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
as Setsuko Goto
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
as Ruriko
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998
as Kuramoto
Free and Easy 11
2000
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
as Tezuka Yukino
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
Giwaku
2019
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
as Minoyama
Soup Opera
2010
as Yasuko Tanaka
Oka wo koete
2008
Aiki
2002
Oh My God
2002
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
Hysteric
2000
Winter Rose
2022
as Michiko Wataguchi
The Yakuza Principal
2007
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
Passion
1992
First Gentleman
2021
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
as Yoko Shima
Amagi Pass
1998
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
as Nami Muraki
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
as Anzu's Mother
The Ice Ruts
2016
as 요네자와 사유리
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
Drugstore Girl
2004
as Hideko Mukai
Perfect Revolution
2017
as Akiko
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
as Mieko's Mother
Time Leap
1997
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
The Housekeeper
2012
as Haruko Inamura
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
Zen and Bones
2016
as Kô Mittwer
About Kimiko Yo
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 credit… With 232 credits spanning from 1986 to 2026, Kimiko Yo has appeared in 153 films and 79 TV shows.
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Most Popular Kimiko Yo Movies
- Shin Godzilla (2016) — as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
- Sheep in the Box (2026) — as Nobuyo Nishimura
- Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter (2017) — as Koto
- Departures (2008) — as Yuriko Kamimura
- Parasyte: Part 1 (2014) — as Izumi Nobuko
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