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.
Filmography
all 209
Movies 139
TV Shows 70
Voice 1
Director 1
52-Hertz Whales (2024)
The Gift of Your Heart (2024)
Trillion Game (2023)
Yasashii Neko (2023)
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy (2023)
Sanctuary (2023)
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero (2023)
My Happy Divorced Life (2023)
To Every You I've Loved Before (2022)
To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022)
The Dog won't Eat it, but Charlie Laughs (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)
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File (2019)
Show Me the Way to the Station (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)
Tokyo Alien Bros. (2018)
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project (2018)
Enokida Trading Co. (2018)
Kuroido Goroshi (2018)
Half Blue Sky (2018)
Innocent Days (2018)
Omotenashi (2018)
ドラマSP 松本清張「鬼畜」 (2017)
The Public Enemy (2017)
Ringside Story (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)
Black Widow Business (2016)
Zen and Bones (2016)
Beef tongue set meal with seafood bowl of Onagawa in Sendai (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)
Dr. Rintaro, Psychiatrist (2015)
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment (2015)
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion (2015)
A Stitch of Life (2015)
Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
Midnight Diner (2014)
First Class 2 (2014)
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma (2014)
Back of Father (2014)
300 Million Yen Robbery (2014)
My Little Sweet Pea (2013)
A Tale of Samurai Cooking (2013)
Shield of Straw (2013)
Houkago Groove (2013)
Nobody's Perfect (2013)
A Story of Yonosuke (2013)
The Housekeeper (2012)
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara (2012)
Dearest (2012)
Dirty Hearts (2012)
For Love's Sake (2012)
Black Dawn (2012)
悪女について (2012)
Cleopatra na Onnatachi (2012)
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai (2012)
Ace Attorney (2012)
Bread of Happiness (2012)
Father of the Bride (2012)
Crossroads (2011)
Madame Butterfly (2011)
My SO Has Got Depression (2011)
Star Watching Dog (2011)
下流の宴 (2011)
Rebirth (2011)
Taro no Tō (2011)
Soup Opera (2010)
Villain (2010)
警視庁継続捜査班 (2010)
A Lone Scalpel (2010)
Rinco's Restaurant (2010)
Air Doll (2009)
Dear Doctor (2009)
Where The Legend Lives (2008)
Departures (2008)
Oka wo koete (2008)
Osen (2008)
The Ramen Girl (2008)
Daisuki!! (2008)
Atsuhime (2008)
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven (2007)
夜の終る時 (2007)
The Yakuza Principal (2007)
Shikyû no kioku (2007)
Virgin Snow (2007)
Tokyo Rhapsody (2007)
Bambino! (2007)
現ナマ弁護士 (2007)
Invisible War (2007)
Evil People (2007)
Dear Father (2007)
Just One Love (2006)
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame (2006)
Into the White Night (2006)
Yamato (2005)
Be with You (2005)
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke (2005)
Tokyo Tower (2005)
Affectionate Time (2005)
Chicken Is Barefoot (2004)
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari (2004)
Café Lumière (2004)
女の中の二つの顔 (2004)
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao (2004)
Fireflies: River of Light (2004)
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School (2003)
Worst by Chance (2003)
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌 (2003)
Farewell, Kuro (2003)
Kao (2003)
Aiki (2002)
Hotel Hibiscus (2002)
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS) (2002)
Oh My God (2002)
Music of Remembrance -Gb- (2002)
Dog Star (2002)
California Dreamin' (2002)
The Lonely Affair of the Heart (2002)
Goodbye Mr Ozu (2001)
Churasan (2001)
Asako in Ruby Shoes (2000)
Another Battle (2000)
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌 (2000)
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5 (2000)
Hysteric (2000)
Timeless Melody (2000)
Free and Easy 11 (2000)
Dangerous Relationship (1999)
The Exam (1999)
Live (1999)
Wait and See (1998)
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage (1998)
Kurenai (1998)
A Dangerous Woman (1998)
Amagi Pass (1998)
Immoral Affairs (1997)
20th Century Nostalgia (1997)
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件 (1997)
Middle-aged Bachelors (1997)
Time Leap (1997)
An Angel with Many Scars (1997)
The Most Important Person (1997)
Shin Hanshichi torimono chô (1997)
Happy Go Lucky (1997)
Moonlight Serenade (1997)
Virgin Road (1997)
The President's Christmas Tree (1996)
Concerto (1996)
Gonin 2 (1996)
Those were the Days (1996)
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu (1996)
Haunted School (1995)
Say You Love Me (1995)
Keikoku! Nozoki ari. (1995)
Sharaku (1995)
Sumomo mo momo (1995)
Alone in the Night (1994)
Can you collect it? Complete (1994)
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2 (1994)
A Night in Nude (1993)
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark (1993)
I Can Hear the Duck Singing (1993)
The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
Passion (1992)
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral (1991)
Orchids Under the Moon (1991)
The Hitman Blood Smells Like Rose (1991)
Yumeji (1991)
Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo) (1991)
Baian the Assassin (1990)
Maria's Stomach (1990)
Via Okinawa (1989)
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)
Love Bites Back (1988)
The Heartbreak Yakuza (1987)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1956-05-12 (67 years old)
Birth PlaceYokohama, Japan
Height161-centimeter
CitizenshipsTaiwan
Also Known As余貴美子, 요 키미코
AwardsKinuyo Tanaka Award, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Supporting Actress
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