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 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.
Shows
The Naked Director
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Half Blue Sky
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Back of Father
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Sanctuary
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
dele
Churasan
Trillion Game
Usotoki Rhetoric
Dangerous Detective
Into the White Night
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Atsuhime
Concerto
Hakusen Nagashi
Be with You
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Karyuu No Utage
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Say You Love Me
The Gift of Your Heart
Straight to Hell
Daisuki!!
The Public Enemy
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
Affectionate Time
Virgin Road
Death Office
Sugu Shinun Dakara
California Dreamin'
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
Dear Father
Taro no Tō
Bambino!
Kao
Toubousha
Dream Team
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
And Then There Were None
Just One Love
Live
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
Love Story
Izakaya Fuji
My Happy Divorced Life
Goodbye Mr Ozu
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
REPLAY＆DESTROY
Innocent Days
Hello, I Love You
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
Evil People
お葬式で会いましょう
A Dangerous Woman
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
Middle-aged Bachelors
Night Hero NAOTO
Houkago Groove
ママは昔パパだった
Dangerous Relationship
警視庁継続捜査班
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)