Kimiko Yo
Age: N/A | From: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: 余貴美子 , 요 키미코
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 63
TV Involvements: 32
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Atsuhime
(2008) Hisa-hime
The Files of Young Kindaichi
(2022) Hiruko Kirigoe
Shin Godzilla
(2016) Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
Just One Love
(2006) Akiko Kanzaki
Into the White Night
(2006) Taniguchi Mafumi
Virgin Road
(1997) Michi
Say You Love Me
(1995) Kaoru Kanzaki
Trillion Game
(2023) Mitsuzono ShizukuActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 2024 | Yukino Aihara | |
| 2023 | Mitsuzono Shizuku | |
| Matsuko | ||
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| 2022 | Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice) | |
| Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice) | ||
| Minoyama | ||
| Michiko Wataguchi | ||
| Hiruko Kirigoe | ||
| Hanae Shoji | ||
| 2021 | N/A | |
| Yoshie Andou | ||
| 2020 | N/A | |
| Setsuko Goto | ||
| Miko Noshiro | ||
| Mori Kaoru | ||
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| Michiyo Muramatsu | ||
| Ogata Yoko | ||
| Eiko Tanaka | ||
| Shibusawa Wakako | ||
| 2019 | 南雲喜里子 | |
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| Shingu | ||
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| Kozue Muranishi | ||
| Mrs. Saito | ||
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| 2018 | N/A | |
| Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday") | ||
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| Kimika Okada | ||
| Michiko Tanaka | ||
| Mitsuko | ||
| 2017 | N/A | |
| Akiko Kawarada | ||
| Akiko | ||
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| Koto | ||
| (segment “Hammer”) | ||
| Erika Konami | ||
| 2016 | 요네자와 사유리 | |
| Chieko | ||
| Yoriko Musubi | ||
| Eiko Segawa | ||
| Kô Mittwer | ||
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| Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense | ||
| Machi Domoto | ||
| 権田薫子 | ||
| 2015 | Speaker | |
| fortune-teller woman | ||
| Izumi Nobuko | ||
| Motoko Ueno | ||
| Motoko Ueno | ||
| Hiroe Minami | ||
| 2014 | Izumi Nobuko | |
| Chieko Hanawa | ||
| Ranko Takigawa | ||
| Nonaka Tomiko | ||
| Togawa Yasuko | ||
| Ryoko Nakaoka | ||
| 2013 | Ayako Akaike | |
| Mitsuru Funaki | ||
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| Taeko Yokomichi | ||
| 2012 | Haruko Inamura | |
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| Tamiko Hamasaki | ||
| Naomi | ||
| Toyo Taiga | ||
| Kumi Muramatsu | ||
| Suzuki Tane | ||
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| Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey) | ||
| Yoko | ||
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| 2011 | N/A | |
| Satoko Kurita | ||
| Innkeeper | ||
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| Angel | ||
| 2010 | Yasuko Tanaka | |
| Yoriko Shimizu | ||
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| Shizuka Takei | ||
| Ruriko | ||
| 2009 | Receptionist Yoshiko | |
| Akemi Ohtake | ||
| 2008 | N/A | |
| Yuriko Kamimura | ||
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| Reiko | ||
| Setsuko Kachigawa | ||
| Hisa-hime | ||
| 2007 | Kita no mandokoro | |
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| Mayumi Sasaki | ||
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| Kinu Murozono | ||
| Chise Fujishima | ||
| Fortune Teller | ||
| 2006 | Akiko Kanzaki | |
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| Taniguchi Mafumi | ||
| 2005 | N/A | |
| Hongo Naomi | ||
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| Kujo Tomoko | ||
| 2004 | N/A | |
| Yoko's Stepmother | ||
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| 2003 | Yukiko Ando | |
| Hatsuko Kim | ||
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| Eri Yuki | ||
| Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子） | ||
| 2002 | N/A | |
| Mieko's Mother | ||
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| Rume | ||
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| 2001 | N/A | |
| Shibata Yoko | ||
| 2000 | Aya's Mother | |
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| Chikako's mother | ||
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| 1999 | Ayako Tsuzuki | |
| Midori Chiaki | ||
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| 1998 | Wife of Hiroshi's Brother | |
| Kuramoto | ||
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| 1997 | N/A | |
| Anzu's Mother | ||
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| Man's Lover in TV Drama | ||
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| Michi | ||
| 1996 | N/A | |
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| Ran | ||
| Masako Ozawa | ||
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| 1995 | Yukawa | |
| Kaoru Kanzaki | ||
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| 1994 | N/A | |
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| 1993 | Nami Tsuchiya | |
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| Nami Muraki | ||
| 1992 | N/A | |
| 1991 | N/A | |
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| Jiro | ||
| Reiko's Mother | ||
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| 1990 | N/A | |
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| 1989 | N/A | |
| 1988 | Managing Director's Daughter | |
| Sanae Ebino | ||
| 1987 | N/A | |
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