Kimiko Yo
Acting
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…
Filmography
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Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Sheep in the Box
2026
Straight to Hell
2026
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
2024
52-Hertz Whales
2024
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024
The Gift of Your Heart
2024
Trillion Game
2023
The Kind-Hearted Cat
2023
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
Sanctuary
2023
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
Omokage
2023
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022
Winter Rose
2022
The Files of Young Kindaichi
2022
Noise
2022
First Gentleman
2021
Dream Team
2021
Toubousha
2020
Any Crybabies Around?
2020
Hotel Royal
2020
Sugu Shinun Dakara
2020
Peaceful Death
2020
Step
2020
Red
2020
AI Amok
2020
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
2020
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
2019
Death Office
2019
Welcome to National Treasures
2019
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
The Naked Director
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019
Giwaku
2019
dele
2018
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018
Enokida Trading Co.
2018
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
Half Blue Sky
2018
Innocent Days
2018
Omotenashi
2018
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
The Public Enemy
2017
Perfect Revolution
2017
Izakaya Fuji
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017
The Blue Hearts
2017
And Then There Were None
2017
Midnight Diner 2
2016
The Ice Ruts
2016
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
2016
Black Widow Business
2016
Zen and Bones
2016
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
Shin Godzilla
2016
Hello, I Love You
2016
Night Hero NAOTO
2016
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015
REPLAY＆DESTROY
2015
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
A Stitch of Life
2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Midnight Diner
2014
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
2014
Back of Father
2014