Kimiko Yo
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1956
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
157 movies · 82 TV shows, newest first
NR
Otoko Tomodachi
2026
NR
The Invisibles
2026
4.0
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
6.4
Sheep in the Box
2026
7.9
Straight to Hell
2026
3.0
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
7.0
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
8.0
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
8.0
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
5.5
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
8.2
52-Hertz Whales
2024
NR
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024
9.5
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
7.6
Trillion Game
2023
10.0
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
8.2
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
7.8
Sanctuary
2023
6.9
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
NR
Omokage
2023
4.3
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
6.1
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
6.8
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
7.5
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
6.5
Winter Rose
2022
6.8
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
5.9
Noise
2022
NR
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
2022
NR
Matrilineal Family
2021
4.5
First Gentleman
2021
NR
Dream Team
2021
7.0
Toubousha
2020
5.2
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
4.6
Hotel Royal
2020
NR
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
6.4
Peaceful Death
2020
7.1
Step
2020
4.7
Red
2020
7.1
AI Amok
2020
4.5
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
6.5
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
NR
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
2019
5.4
Death Office
2019
NR
Welcome to National Treasures
2019
6.0
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
NR
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
7.3
The Naked Director
2019
NR
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
7.2
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
6.5
Giwaku
2019
5.0
Kioku Sousa ~Shinjuku Higashi-sho Jiken Fairu~
2019
7.7
dele
2018
7.0
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
6.0
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
NR
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
7.8
Half Blue Sky
2018
7.4
Innocent Days
2018
4.2
Omotenashi
2018
NR
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
8.5
The Public Enemy
2017
6.0
Perfect Revolution
2017
7.0
Izakaya Fuji
2017
8.1
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
5.0
The Blue Hearts
2017
6.6
And Then There Were None
2017
7.5
Midnight Diner 2
2016
7.0
The Ice Ruts
2016
7.3
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
7.9
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
8.5
Black Widow Business
2016
NR
Zen and Bones
2016
8.0
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
7.2
Shin Godzilla
2016
NR
Hello, I Love You
2016
NR
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
NR
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015
7.0
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
7.0
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
6.8
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
7.1
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
6.0
A Stitch of Life
2015
8.8
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
7.0
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
7.7
Midnight Diner
2014
NR
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
2014
8.0
Back of Father
2014
NR
お葬式で会いましょう
2014
6.5
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
6.2
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
7.2
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
NR
The After-Dinner Mysteries SP: Inspector Kazamatsuri's Case File
2013
7.1
Galileo XX
2013
6.3
Shield of Straw
2013
NR
Houkago Groove
2013
7.0
Nobody's Perfect
2013
7.2
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
7.0
The Housekeeper
2012
NR
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
2012
6.7
Dearest
2012
6.7
Dirty Hearts
2012
6.9
For Love's Sake
2012
4.0
Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
2012
NR
悪女について
2012
7.0
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
2012
NR
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
6.1
Ace Attorney
2012
6.7
Bread of Happiness
2012
3.0
Father of the Bride
2012
7.0
Crossroads
2011
7.2
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
7.7
Star Watching Dog
2011
8.0
Karyuu No Utage
2011
7.6
Rebirth
2011
NR
Taro no Tō
2011
8.0
Soup Opera
2010
6.8
Villain
2010
NR
警視庁継続捜査班
2010
6.5
A Lone Scalpel
2010
8.2
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
6.9
Air Doll
2009
NR
ママは昔パパだった
2009
6.6
Dear Doctor
2009
6.0
Where The Legend Lives
2008
7.9
Departures
2008
NR
Oka wo koete
2008
6.5
The Ramen Girl
2008
7.5
Daisuki!!
2008
9.0
Atsuhime
2008
8.3
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007NR
夜の終る時
2007
NR
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
2007
8.0
The Yakuza Principal
2007
6.0
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
6.4
Virgin Snow
2007
NR
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
6.8
Bambino!
2007NR
現ナマ弁護士
2007
6.0
Invisible War
2007
7.0
Evil People
2007
8.3
Dear Father
2007
6.9
Just One Love
2006
6.5
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
7.4
Into the White Night
2006
5.4
Yamato
2005
7.0
Be with You
2005
NR
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005
NR
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
NR
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
6.4
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
7.2
Tokyo Tower
2005
8.0
Affectionate Time
2005NR
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
2005
7.2
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
NR
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
6.8
Café Lumière
2004NR
女の中の二つの顔
2004
1.0
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
5.0
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
5.2
Drugstore Girl
2004
4.3
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003
9.0
Worst by Chance
2003NR
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
2003
7.2
Farewell, Kuro
2003
6.5
Kao
2003
NR
Suspicion
2003
NR
An Autumn Afternoon
2003
4.8
Aiki
2002
7.2
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
NR
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
7.0
Oh My God
2002
NR
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002
7.3
Dog Star
2002
7.0
California Dreamin'
2002
3.0
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
6.5
Suicide Club
2001
7.0
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
7.0
Love Story
2001
9.7
Churasan
2001
7.1
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
6.0
Another Battle
2000
7.8
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000NR
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000
NR
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
9.0
Hysteric
2000
7.5
Timeless Melody
2000
7.3
Free and Easy 11
2000
NR
Dangerous Relationship
1999
8.0
The Exam
1999
5.0
Live
1999
7.3
Wait and See
1998
6.6
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998NR
Kurenai
1998
4.0
A Dangerous Woman
1998
1.0
Amagi Pass
1998
4.3
Immoral Affairs
1997
7.1
20th Century Nostalgia
1997NR
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997
NR
Middle-aged Bachelors
1997
NR
Time Leap
1997
8.0
An Angel with Many Scars
1997NR
The Most Important Person
1997
7.4
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
6.0
Moonlight Serenade
1997
7.3
Virgin Road
1997
8.0
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
4.0
Concerto
1996
7.0
Gonin 2
1996
9.0
Hakusen Nagashi
1996NR
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
1996
7.6
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
1995
6.3
Haunted School
1995
7.0
Say You Love Me
1995
NR
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
7.0
Sharaku
1995
10.0
Sumomo mo momo
1995
5.9
Alone in the Night
1994
NR
Can you collect it? Complete
1994
NR
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994
5.6
A Night in Nude
1993
9.0
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
3.9
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
NR
Gorotsuki 2
1993
6.5
Passion
1992
8.0
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991NR
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991
NR
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
9.0
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
6.3
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
6.4
Yumeji
1991
6.3
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
NR
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991
NR
Baian the Assassin
1990
10.0
Maria's Stomach
1990
7.0
Via Okinawa
1989
6.0
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988
4.0
Love Bites Back
1988
5.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
8.4
Dangerous Detective
1986
NR
Haru and Tae
—NR
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