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
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2007
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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
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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
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1991
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1991
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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