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.
154 movies · 80 shows
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026·4.0
Sheep in the Box
2026·5.2
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026·3.0
52-Hertz Whales
2024·8.2
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024·0.0
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023·8.2
Omokage
2023·0.0
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022·6.1
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022·6.8
Everything Will Be Owlright!
2022·7.5
Winter Rose
2022·6.0
Noise
2022·5.9
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
2022·0.0
First Gentleman
2021·4.5
Any Crybabies Around?
2020·5.2
Hotel Royal
2020·4.6
Peaceful Death
2020·6.4
Step
2020·7.2
Red
2020·4.7
AI Amok
2020·7.1
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019·6.5
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019·6.0
Sleep in the Shadows
2019·0.0
An Artist of the Floating World
2019·0.0
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
2019·7.2
Giwaku
2019·6.5
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
2018·7.0
Enokida Trading Co.
2018·6.0
The Murder of Kuroido
2018·0.0
Omotenashi
2018·4.2
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017·0.0
Perfect Revolution
2017·6.0
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
2017·8.1
The Blue Hearts
2017·5.0
Midnight Diner 2
2016·7.4
The Ice Ruts
2016·7.0
Black Widow Business
2016·8.5
Zen and Bones
2016·0.0
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016·8.0
Shin Godzilla
2016·7.2
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
2015·0.0
Parasyte: Part 2
2015·7.0
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015·6.8
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015·7.1
A Stitch of Life
2015·6.0
Parasyte: Part 1
2014·7.0
Midnight Diner
2014·7.6
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014·6.5
My Little Sweet Pea
2013·6.2
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
2013·7.2
The After-Dinner Mysteries SP: Inspector Kazamatsuri's Case File
2013·0.0
Galileo XX
2013·7.1
Shield of Straw
2013·6.3
Nobody's Perfect
2013·7.0
A Story of Yonosuke
2013·7.2
The Housekeeper
2012·7.0
Dearest
2012·6.7
Dirty Hearts
2012·6.7
For Love's Sake
2012·6.9
Foreign Affairs Police: Don't be fooled by that man
2012·4.0
悪女について
2012·0.0
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012·0.0
Ace Attorney
2012·6.1
Bread of Happiness
2012·6.7
Father of the Bride
2012·3.0
Crossroads
2011·7.0
My SO Has Got Depression
2011·7.2
Star Watching Dog
2011·7.7
Rebirth
2011·7.6
Soup Opera
2010·8.0
Villain
2010·6.8
A Lone Scalpel
2010·6.5
Rinco's Restaurant
2010·8.2
Air Doll
2009·6.9
Dear Doctor
2009·6.6
Where The Legend Lives
2008·6.0
Departures
2008·7.8
Oka wo koete
2008·0.0
The Ramen Girl
2008·6.5
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
2007·8.3
The Yakuza Principal
2007·8.0
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007·6.0
Virgin Snow
2007·6.5
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007·0.0
Invisible War
2007·6.0
Yamato
2005·5.4
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
2005·0.0
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005·0.0
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005·6.4
Tokyo Tower
2005·7.2
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004·7.2
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004·0.0
Café Lumière
2004·6.7
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004·1.0
Fireflies: River of Light
2004·5.0
Drugstore Girl
2004·5.2
Worst by Chance
2003·9.0
Farewell, Kuro
2003·7.2
Suspicion
2003·0.0
An Autumn Afternoon
2003·0.0
Aiki
2002·4.8
Hotel Hibiscus
2002·7.2
Oh My God
2002·7.0
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002·0.0
Dog Star
2002·7.3
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002·3.0
Suicide Club
2001·6.5
Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000·7.1
Another Battle
2000·6.0
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000·7.8
巡査鉄兵の推理日誌
2000·0.0
Ando Gumi Gaiden Genealogy of the Group Wolf 5
2000·0.0
Hysteric
2000·9.0
Timeless Melody
2000·7.5
Free and Easy 11
2000·7.3
The Exam
1999·10.0
Wait and See
1998·7.3
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
1998·6.6
Amagi Pass
1998·1.0
Immoral Affairs
1997·4.3
20th Century Nostalgia
1997·7.1
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997·0.0
Time Leap
1997·0.0
An Angel with Many Scars
1997·8.0
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997·7.4
Moonlight Serenade
1997·6.0
The President's Christmas Tree
1996·8.0
Gonin 2
1996·7.0
Haunted School
1995·6.3
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995·0.0
Sharaku
1995·7.0
Sumomo mo momo
1995·10.0
Alone in the Night
1994·5.9
Can you collect it? Complete
1994·0.0
Bastard LAST DOWN TEN 2
1994·0.0
A Night in Nude
1993·5.6
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993·9.0
The Brutal Insanity of Love
1993·3.9
Gorotsuki 2
1993·0.0
Passion
1992·6.5
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991·8.0
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991·0.0
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991·0.0
Orchids Under the Moon
1991·9.0
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991·6.3
Yumeji
1991·6.4
Hiruko the Goblin
1991·6.3
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991·0.0
Baian the Assassin
1990·0.0
Maria's Stomach
1990·10.0
Via Okinawa
1989·7.0
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
1988·6.0
Love Bites Back
1988·4.0
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987·5.0