Kimiko Yo
Born in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan — May 12 1956
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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 na…
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Kimiko Yo's Credits
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The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Half Blue Sky
Kimika Okada
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Yoriko Musubi
Back of Father
Togawa Yasuko
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Chieko Tachibana
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
Shin Godzilla
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Dangerous Detective
Yuko
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
Atsuhime
Hisa-hime
Churasan
Shibata Yoko
dele
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
Into the White Night
Taniguchi Mafumi
Sanctuary
Departures
Yuriko Kamimura
Affectionate Time
Kujo Tomoko
Death Office
Shingu
Usotoki Rhetoric
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
Daisuki!!
Setsuko Kachigawa
Hakusen Nagashi
Masako Ozawa
Concerto
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Shibusawa Wakako
Say You Love Me
Kaoru Kanzaki
Kao
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
Parasyte: Part 1
Izumi Nobuko
The Gift of Your Heart
Yukino Aihara
Dear Father
Fortune Teller
The Public Enemy
Akiko Kawarada
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
Love Story
Bambino!
Villain
Yoriko Shimizu
Be with You
Hongo Naomi
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Tendo Ichiko
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Straight to Hell
Izakaya Fuji
Goodbye Mr Ozu
Virgin Road
Michi
Parasyte: Part 2
Izumi Nobuko
Ace Attorney
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
And Then There Were None
Erika Konami
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
Yukiko Ando
Karyuu No Utage
Miyagi Yoko
Hiruko the Goblin
Reiko's Mother
My Happy Divorced Life
Air Doll
Receptionist Yoshiko
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
Asako in Ruby Shoes
Aya's Mother
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
高橋文世
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Kuramoto
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Matsuko
Toubousha
We Shall Overcome Someday
Just One Love
Akiko Kanzaki
Worst by Chance
Hatsuko Kim
Innocent Days
Michiko Tanaka
Café Lumière
Yoko's Stepmother
Taro no Tō
Suicide Club
Shield of Straw
The Heartbreak Yakuza
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Mitsuru Funaki
Yamato
Hello, I Love You
Machi Domoto
A Lone Scalpel
Shizuka Takei
Rebirth
Angel
A Story of Yonosuke
Taeko Yokomichi
Midnight Diner
Chieko Hanawa
Sugu Shinun Dakara
Mori Kaoru
The Exam
Midori Chiaki
California Dreamin'
Kyoko Yamazaki
My SO Has Got Depression
Satoko Kurita
Soup Opera
Yasuko Tanaka
Farewell, Kuro
Eri Yuki
Evil People
Chise Fujishima
Dear Doctor
Akemi Ohtake
Step
Michiyo Muramatsu
A Night in Nude
Nami Tsuchiya
Galileo XX
Yoriko Takasaki
Tokyo Rhapsody
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
Noise
Hanae Shoji
Alone in the Night
Red
Ogata Yoko
Winter Rose
Michiko Wataguchi
Wait and See
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
The Blue Hearts
(segment “Hammer”)
Hotel Royal
Miko Noshiro
Where The Legend Lives
The Housekeeper
Haruko Inamura
Virgin Snow
Mayumi Sasaki
Hotel Hibiscus
Mieko's Mother
A Stitch of Life
Hiroe Minami
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Motoko Ueno
Live
AI Amok
Eiko Tanaka
The Ramen Girl
Reiko
Any Crybabies Around?
Setsuko Goto
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Minoyama
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
Gonin 2
Ran
Nobody's Perfect
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Motoko Ueno
Midnight Diner 2
Chieko
Sharaku
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
Yumeji
Jiro
Tokyo Tower
Star Watching Dog
Innkeeper
An Artist of the Floating World
Mrs. Saito
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Dog Star
Night Hero NAOTO
権田薫子
First Gentleman
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
An Angel with Many Scars
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
Bread of Happiness
Yoko
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
엔죠지 치에코
The Ice Ruts
요네자와 사유리
Black Widow Business
Eiko Segawa
Passion
Dream Team
Yoshie Andou
Perfect Revolution
Akiko
Houkago Groove
The Yakuza Principal
Happy-Go-Lucky
Man's Lover in TV Drama
Chicken Is Barefoot
Amagi Pass
The Most Important Person
お葬式で会いましょう
Moonlight Serenade
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Tezuka Yukino
The Murder of Kuroido
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
南雲喜里子
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Nami Muraki
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Dearest
Tamiko Hamasaki
Enokida Trading Co.
Yoko Shima
52-Hertz Whales
Noriko Okada
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
REPLAY＆DESTROY
fortune-teller woman
My Little Sweet Pea
Ayako Akaike
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
Rinco's Restaurant
Ruriko
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
Another Battle
ママは昔パパだった
우에노 마키코
For Love's Sake
Toyo Taiga
A Dangerous Woman
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
Fireflies: River of Light
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
Dangerous Relationship
Ayako Tsuzuki
Sheep in the Box
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
Love Bites Back
Sanae Ebino
Invisible War
Kinu Murozono
Kurenai
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
Nonaka Tomiko
Timeless Melody
Chikako's Mother
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
Show Me the Way to the Station
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Kita no mandokoro
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
Orchids Under the Moon
Via Okinawa
Baian the Assassin
Oh My God
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
Omokage
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」
Haunted School
Yukawa
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Speaker
Peaceful Death
Middle-aged Bachelors
女の中の二つの顔
Giwaku
300 Million Yen Robbery
Ryoko Nakaoka
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
悪女について
Suzuki Tane
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Koto
Omotenashi
Mitsuko
警視庁継続捜査班
Maria's Stomach
Aiki
Can you collect it? Complete
Hysteric
Drugstore Girl
Hideko Mukai
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
An Autumn Afternoon
Akiko Hirayama
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
夜の終る時
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Free and Easy 11
Father of the Bride
Crossroads
Time Leap
Dirty Hearts
Naomi
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
Oka wo koete
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
The President's Christmas Tree
Immoral Affairs
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
Zen and Bones
Kô Mittwer
Sumomo mo momo
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Rume
20th Century Nostalgia
Anzu's Mother
Welcome to National Treasures
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Managing Director's Daughter
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
謎解きはディナーのあとで スペシャル～風祭警部の事件簿～
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
Suspicion
Sleep in the Shadows
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
Haru and Tae
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
現ナマ弁護士
橋ものがたり「約束」
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌