Kimiko Yo
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
Acting
2019
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2000
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2022
asHanae Shoji
2016
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2003
asEri Yuki
1994
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2010
asYoriko Shimizu
1994
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2000
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1991
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1991
asReiko's Mother
2003
asHatsuko Kim
2008
asYuriko Kamimura
1996
asRan
1995
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2008
asReiko
1999
asMidori Chiaki
2007
asMayumi Sasaki
2000
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2002
asRume
2011
asAngel
2010
asRuriko
2021
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2012
asToyo Taiga
2011
asInnkeeper
2011
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2012
asTamiko Hamasaki
2019
as(voice)
2019
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2012
asYoko
1997
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1995
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2002
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2022
asMichiko Wataguchi
1991
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2011
asSatoko Kurita
2013
asAyako Akaike
2013
asMitsuru Funaki
2017
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2009
asAkemi Ohtake
1993
asNami Muraki
2022
asKazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
asKazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2002
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2004
asYoko's Stepmother
2023
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1988
asManaging Director's Daughter
2013
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2022
asMinoyama
1997
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2014
asChieko Hanawa
1997
asMan's Lover in TV Drama
1993
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2014
asIzumi Nobuko
2015
asIzumi Nobuko
2002
asMieko's Mother
2000
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2007
asKinu Murozono
2005
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2008
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2007
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1997
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1991
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2024
asNoriko Okada
2012
asSuzuki Tane
2015
asSpeaker
2014
asRyoko Nakaoka
1993
asNami Tsuchiya
1994
as2007
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2012
asKumi Muramatsu
2013
asTaeko Yokomichi
2004
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1998
asWife of Hiroshi's Brother
1991
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2023
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2016
asReiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
1990
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2001
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2016
asEiko Segawa
2016
asChieko
1997
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2005
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2017
as(segment “Hammer”)
2009
asReceptionist Yoshiko
2017
asAkiko
2000
asChikako's Mother
1988
asSanae Ebino
1989
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2018
asMitsuko
1987
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2017
asKoto
1997
asAnzu's Mother
1995
asYukawa
2016
asKô Mittwer
2012
asHaruko Inamura
2016
as요네자와 사유리
1992
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1996
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2018
asYoko Shima
2008
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2004
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2010
asShizuka Takei
2018
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1998
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2020
asEiko Tanaka
2007
asKita no mandokoro
1991
asJiro
2012
asNaomi
2002
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1997
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2004
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2013
as
2000
asAya's Mother
2000
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2005
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2020
asOgata Yoko
2020
asMiko Noshiro
2019
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2012
asMaiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
2018
asCafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
2020
asSetsuko Goto
2012
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1995
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2010
asYasuko Tanaka
2020
asMichiyo Muramatsu
2020
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2002
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2015
asMotoko Ueno
2015
asMotoko Ueno
1990
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1991
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2019
asMrs. Saito
2019
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1998
asKuramoto
2015
asHiroe Minami
2012
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2007
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2013
asYoriko Takasaki
2003
as1991
as1991
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2004
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2005
asAndo Yukiko [Teacher]
2005
asTezuka Yukino
asYoshie Andou
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asShibusawa Wakako
asAkiko Kanzaki
asKaoru Kanzaki
asShibata Yoko
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asYukiko Ando
asChise Fujishima
asAyako Tsuzuki
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asKyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
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asMiyagi Yoko
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asShingu
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asTaniguchi Mafumi
asFortune Teller
asfortune-teller woman
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asSetsuko Kachigawa
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asMatsuko
asMitsuzono Shizuku
asErika Konami
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asAkiko Kawarada
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asYukino Aihara
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asHiruko Kirigoe
asMichi
asNonaka Tomiko
asHongo Naomi
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asMachi Domoto
asKimika Okada
as権田薫子
asMichiko Tanaka
asTendo Ichiko
asHisa-hime
asKozue Muranishi
asMasako Ozawa
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as南雲喜里子
asRitsuko Nishi Freeman
asYoriko Musubi
as엔죠지 치에코
as우에노 마키코
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asKujo Tomoko
asTogawa Yasuko
asMori Kaoru
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as高橋文世
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asHiruko Kirigoe
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asChieko Tachibana
asYuko
asHiromi Nagisa
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Crew
Directing
