Kimiko Yo
Known For
Acting
Born
1956-05-12 in 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.
Most Known For
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
as Hiruko Kirigoe
The Naked Director
as Kozue Muranishi
Churasan
as Shibata Yoko
Half Blue Sky
as Kimika Okada
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
as Yoriko Musubi
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
as Chieko Tachibana
Dangerous Detective
as Yuko
Dangerous Detective
as Hiromi Nagisa
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
The Files of Young Kindaichi
as Hiruko Kirigoe
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Back of Father
as Togawa Yasuko
Into the White Night
as Taniguchi Mafumi
Sanctuary
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Hakusen Nagashi
as Masako Ozawa
Say You Love Me
as Kaoru Kanzaki
Atsuhime
as Hisa-hime
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