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Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo

Birthday: 1956-05-12 | Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2021
Dream Team

as    Yoshie Andou

2020
AI Amok

as    Eiko Tanaka

2020
Hotel Royal

as    Miko Noshiro

2020
Sugu Shinun Dakara

as    Mori Kaoru

2020
Any Crybabies Around?

as    Setsuko Goto

2016
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono

as    Yoriko Musubi

2015
Replay & Destroy

as    fortune-teller woman

2010
Soup Opera

as    Yasuko Tanaka

2009
Air Doll

as    Receptionist Yoshiko

2008
The Ramen Girl

as    Reiko

2008
Departures

as    Yuriko Kamimura

2000
Asako in Ruby Shoes

as    Aya's Mother

1993
The Brutal Insanity of Love

as    Nami Muraki

1993
A Night in Nude

as    Nami Tsuchiya

1991
Hiruko the Goblin

as    Reiko's Mother