Kimiko Yo

Personal Info

Birthday

May 12, 1956

(69 years old)

Place of Birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Kimiko Yo

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.

Known For

The Naked Director

Half Blue Sky

Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories

The Files of the Young Kindaichi

Shin Godzilla

The Files of Young Kindaichi

Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono

Into the White Night

Filmography

2024
52-Hertz Whales
as Noriko Okada
2022
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
The Dog won't Eat it, but Charlie Laughs
as Minoyama
Winter Rose
as Michiko Wataguchi
Noise
as Hanae Shoji
2020
Any Crybabies Around?
as Setsuko Goto
Hotel Royal
as Miko Noshiro
Step
as Michiyo Muramatsu
Red
as Ogata Yoko
AI Amok
as Eiko Tanaka
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
2018
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
Enokida Trading Co.
as Yoko Shima
Omotenashi
as Mitsuko
2017
Perfect Revolution
as Akiko
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
as Koto
The Blue Hearts
as (segment “Hammer”)
2016
Midnight Diner 2
as Chieko
The Ice Ruts
as 요네자와 사유리
Black Widow Business
as Eiko Segawa
Zen and Bones
as Kô Mittwer
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
2015
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
as Speaker
Parasyte: Part 2
as Izumi Nobuko
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
as Motoko Ueno
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
as Motoko Ueno
A Stitch of Life
as Hiroe Minami
2014
Parasyte: Part 1
as Izumi Nobuko
Midnight Diner
as Chieko Hanawa
300 Million Yen Robbery
as Ryoko Nakaoka
2013
My Little Sweet Pea
as Ayako Akaike
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
as Mitsuru Funaki
Galileo XX
as Yoriko Takasaki
A Story of Yonosuke
as Taeko Yokomichi
2012
The Housekeeper
as Haruko Inamura
Dearest
as Tamiko Hamasaki
Dirty Hearts
as Naomi
For Love's Sake
as Toyo Taiga
Black Dawn
as Kumi Muramatsu
悪女について
as Suzuki Tane
Ace Attorney
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
Bread of Happiness
as Yoko
2011
My SO Has Got Depression
as Satoko Kurita
Star Watching Dog
as Innkeeper
Rebirth
as Angel
2010
Soup Opera
as Yasuko Tanaka
Villain
as Yoriko Shimizu
A Lone Scalpel
as Shizuka Takei
Rinco's Restaurant
as Ruriko
2009
Air Doll
as Receptionist Yoshiko
Dear Doctor
as Akemi Ohtake
2008
Departures
as Yuriko Kamimura
The Ramen Girl
as Reiko
2007
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
as Kita no mandokoro
Virgin Snow
as Mayumi Sasaki
Invisible War
as Kinu Murozono
2005
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
as Tezuka Yukino
2004
Café Lumière
as Yoko's Stepmother
2003
Worst by Chance
as Hatsuko Kim
Farewell, Kuro
as Eri Yuki
2002
Hotel Hibiscus
as Mieko's Mother
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
as Rume
2000
Asako in Ruby Shoes
as Aya's Mother
Timeless Melody
as Chikako's Mother
1999
The Exam
as Midori Chiaki
1998
Wait and See
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
as Kuramoto
1997
20th Century Nostalgia
as Anzu's Mother
Happy-Go-Lucky
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
1996
Gonin 2
as Ran
1995
Haunted School
as Yukawa
1993
A Night in Nude
as Nami Tsuchiya
The Brutal Insanity of Love
as Nami Muraki
1991
Yumeji
as Jiro
Hiruko the Goblin
as Reiko's Mother
1988
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Managing Director's Daughter
Love Bites Back
as Sanae Ebino