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 ...
Shin Godzilla
2016
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
Parasyte: Part 1
2014
Farewell, Kuro
2003
To Me, the One Who Loved You
2022
To Every You I've Loved Before
2022
Parasyte: Part 2
2015
Air Doll
2009
Departures
2008
Red
2020
Yamato
2005
A Night in Nude
1993
The Ramen Girl
2008
A Story of Yonosuke
2013
Keikoku! Nozoki ari.
1995
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
1991
Rinco's Restaurant
2010
Alone in the Night
1994
Midnight Diner
2014
My SO Has Got Depression
2011
Immoral Affairs
1997
Rebirth
2011
A Stitch of Life
2015
Galileo XX
2013
Sharaku
1995
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
Wait and See
1998
Winter Rose
2022
Suicide Club
2001
My Little Sweet Pea
2013
Dear Doctor
2009
Hotel Royal
2020
300 Million Yen Robbery
2014
Happy-Go-Lucky
1997
First Gentleman
2021
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
2015
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
2015
Bread of Happiness
2012
Another Battle
2000