Kimiko Yo
Acting
Born 1956-05-12
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
237 credits
Kinuyo Tanaka Award 1
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress 1
Awards
Won 1 Kinuyo Tanaka Award Award
Kinuyo Tanaka Award 1 won
- 2009 Kinuyo Tanaka Award Won
Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress 1 won
- 1999 Best Supporting Actress Won
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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 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
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Acting
46 credits
The Naked Director
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Half Blue Sky
Shin Godzilla
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Churasan
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Into the White Night
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Dangerous Detective
Atsuhime
Sheep in the Box
Hakusen Nagashi
Back of Father
Say You Love Me
Trillion Game
Departures
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
Parasyte: Part 1
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Worst by Chance
Just One Love
The Gift of Your Heart
Evil People
Parasyte: Part 2
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kao
Affectionate Time
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Be with You
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Death Office
The Ramen Girl
Dear Father
Air Doll
The Public Enemy
Daisuki!!
Night Hero NAOTO
Midnight Diner 2
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Hiruko the Goblin
Innocent Days
Galileo XX
Midnight Diner
Other credits
14 credits
Straight to Hell
Sanctuary
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
dele
Bambino!
Usotoki Rhetoric
Yamato
Suicide Club
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
Izakaya Fuji
Shield of Straw
Concerto
Taro no Tō
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