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
Churasan
2001
as Shibata Yoko
Half Blue Sky
2018
as Kimika Okada
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
as Chieko Tachibana
Atsuhime
2008
as Hisa-hime
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
as Yoriko Musubi
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
Back of Father
2014
as Togawa Yasuko
Dangerous Detective
1986
as Yuko / Hiromi Nagisa
Straight to Hell
2026
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
as Hiruko Kirigoe
dele
2018
Into the White Night
2006
as Taniguchi Mafumi
Sanctuary
2023
Trillion Game
2023
as Mitsuzono Shizuku
Hakusen Nagashi
1996
as Masako Ozawa
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
as Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Say You Love Me
1995
as Kaoru Kanzaki
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
as Tendo Ichiko
Taro no Tō
2011
Dear Father
2007
as Fortune Teller
Bambino!
2007
Kao
2003
as Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
The Public Enemy
2017
as Akiko Kawarada
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
2003
as Yukiko Ando
Daisuki!!
2008
as Setsuko Kachigawa
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
as 高橋文世
Death Office
2019
as Shingu
Affectionate Time
2005
as Kujo Tomoko
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
as Shibusawa Wakako
Karyuu No Utage
2011
as Miyagi Yoko
Be with You
2005
as Hongo Naomi
Love Story
2001
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
as Yukino Aihara
Hello, I Love You
2016
as Machi Domoto
Concerto
1996
Izakaya Fuji
2017
And Then There Were None
2017
as Erika Konami
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
as fortune-teller woman
Just One Love
2006
as Akiko Kanzaki
Innocent Days
2018
as Michiko Tanaka
Live
1999
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
as Matsuko
California Dreamin'
2002
as Kyoko Yamazaki
Evil People
2007
as Chise Fujishima
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
Virgin Road
1997
as Michi
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
1996
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
as Mori Kaoru
Dream Team
2021
as Yoshie Andou
Toubousha
2020
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
Dangerous Relationship
1999
as Ayako Tsuzuki
夜の終る時
2007
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
as 権田薫子
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
Movies (153)
Shin Godzilla
2016
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Worst by Chance
2003
as Hatsuko Kim
Sheep in the Box
2026
as Nobuyo Nishimura
Departures
2008
as Yuriko Kamimura
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
as Izumi Nobuko
Suicide Club
2001
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
as Izumi Nobuko
Yamato
2005
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Air Doll
2009
as Receptionist Yoshiko
The Ramen Girl
2008
as Reiko
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
as Taeko Yokomichi
Shield of Straw
2013
Ace Attorney
2012
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Nobody's Perfect
2013
Midnight Diner
2014
as Chieko Hanawa
A Night in Nude
1993
as Nami Tsuchiya
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
as Reiko's Mother
Black Widow Business
2016
as Eiko Segawa
For Love's Sake
2012
as Toyo Taiga
Red
2020
as Ogata Yoko
52-Hertz Whales
2024
as Noriko Okada
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
as Mrs. Saito
AI Amok
2020
as Eiko Tanaka
Haunted School
1995
as Yukawa
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
as Setsuko Goto
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
Midnight Diner 2
2016
as Chieko
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Gonin 2
1996
as Ran
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
as Motoko Ueno
A Lone Scalpel
2010
as Shizuka Takei
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
as Aya's Mother
Maria's Stomach
1990
Hotel Royal
2020
as Miko Noshiro
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
Villain
2010
as Yoriko Shimizu
Galileo XX
2013
as Yoriko Takasaki
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Noise
2022
as Hanae Shoji
Rebirth
2011
as Angel
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
as Motoko Ueno
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
as Satoko Kurita
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
The Exam
1999
as Midori Chiaki
Tokyo Tower
2005
Dearest
2012
as Tamiko Hamasaki
Bread of Happiness
2012
as Yoko
Winter Rose
2022
as Michiko Wataguchi
Yumeji
1991
as Jiro
The Blue Hearts
2017
as (segment “Hammer”)
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998
as Kuramoto
Sharaku
1995
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
as Minoyama
Another Battle
2000
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
as Ryoko Nakaoka
Café Lumière
2004
as Yoko's Stepmother
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Star Watching Dog
2011
as Innkeeper
Dog Star
2002
Moonlight Serenade
1997
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Alone in the Night
1994
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Dear Doctor
2009
as Akemi Ohtake
Time Leap
1997
Amagi Pass
1998
Farewell, Kuro
2003
as Eri Yuki
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
The Ice Ruts
2016
as 요네자와 사유리
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
as Ruriko
Immoral Affairs
1997
Wait and See
1998
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
Zen and Bones
2016
as Kô Mittwer
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013
as Mitsuru Funaki
Omotenashi
2018
as Mitsuko
Giwaku
2019
The Housekeeper
2012
as Haruko Inamura
Step
2020
as Michiyo Muramatsu
Virgin Snow
2007
as Mayumi Sasaki
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
as Ayako Akaike
Soup Opera
2010
as Yasuko Tanaka
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Dirty Hearts
2012
as Naomi
20th Century Nostalgia
1997
as Anzu's Mother
Hysteric
2000
Baian the Assassin
1990
First Gentleman
2021
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988
as Managing Director's Daughter
Free and Easy 11
2000
Passion
1992
Hotel Hibiscus
2002
as Mieko's Mother
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
as Tezuka Yukino
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993
as Nami Muraki
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
A Stitch of Life
2015
as Hiroe Minami
Peaceful Death
2020
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
as Koto
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007
as Kita no mandokoro
Invisible War
2007
as Kinu Murozono
Perfect Revolution
2017
as Akiko
Love Bites Back
1988
as Sanae Ebino
The Yakuza Principal
2007
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
as Yoko Shima
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Oh My God
2002
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
- Worst by Chance (2003) — as Hatsuko Kim
- Sheep in the Box (2026) — as Nobuyo Nishimura
- Departures (2008) — as Yuriko Kamimura
- Parasyte: Part 1 (2014) — as Izumi Nobuko
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