Kimiko Yo
Acting
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.
TV Shows(79)
Straight to Hell
2026
Usotoki Rhetoric
2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
高橋文世
2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
Tendo Ichiko
2024
The Gift of Your Heart
Yukino Aihara
2024
Trillion Game
Mitsuzono Shizuku
2023
The Kind-Hearted Cat
Matsuko
2023
Sanctuary
2023
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
2023
My Happy Divorced Life
2023
The Files of Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
2022
Dream Team
Yoshie Andou
2021
Toubousha
2020
Sugu Shinun Dakara
Mori Kaoru
2020
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
Shibusawa Wakako
2020
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
南雲喜里子
2019
Death Office
Shingu
2019
Welcome to National Treasures
2019
The Naked Director
Kozue Muranishi
2019
dele
2018
Half Blue Sky
Kimika Okada
2018
Innocent Days
Michiko Tanaka
2018
The Public Enemy
Akiko Kawarada
2017
Izakaya Fuji
2017
And Then There Were None
Erika Konami
2017
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
Yoriko Musubi
2016
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories
Chieko Tachibana
2016
Hello, I Love You
Machi Domoto
2016
Night Hero NAOTO
権田薫子
2016
REPLAY＆DESTROY
fortune-teller woman
2015
The Secret Lives of Kyoto Folk
2015
Fuyō no hito 〜 Fuji sanchō no tsuma
Nonaka Tomiko
2014
Back of Father
Togawa Yasuko
2014
お葬式で会いましょう
2014
Houkago Groove
2013
Tsurukame Josanin: Minami no Shima kara
2012
Cleopatra na Onnatachi
2012
Karyuu No Utage
Miyagi Yoko
2011
Taro no Tō
2011
警視庁継続捜査班
2010
ママは昔パパだった
우에노 마키코
2009
Daisuki!!
Setsuko Kachigawa
2008
Atsuhime
Hisa-hime
2008
夜の終る時
2007
Oishii Gohan: Kamakura Kasugai Rice Shop
엔죠지 치에코
2007
Bambino!
2007
現ナマ弁護士
2007
Evil People
Chise Fujishima
2007
Dear Father
Fortune Teller
2007
Just One Love
Akiko Kanzaki
2006
Tokumei! Keiji Dongame
2006
Into the White Night
Taniguchi Mafumi
2006
Be with You
Hongo Naomi
2005
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
2005
Affectionate Time
Kujo Tomoko
2005
松本清張特別企画・黒い画集～紐
2005
女の中の二つの顔
2004
Drop-out Teacher Returns to School
Yukiko Ando
2003
女タクシードライバーの事件日誌
2003
Kao
Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子）
2003
横山秀夫サスペンス シリーズ (TBS)
2002
California Dreamin'
Kyoko Yamazaki
2002
Goodbye Mr Ozu
2001
Love Story
2001
Churasan
Shibata Yoko
2001
Dangerous Relationship
Ayako Tsuzuki
1999
Live
1999
Kurenai
1998
A Dangerous Woman
1998
Middle-aged Bachelors
1997
The Most Important Person
1997
Virgin Road
Michi
1997
Concerto
1996
Hakusen Nagashi
Masako Ozawa
1996
Kekkon no Risou to Genjitsu
1996
The Files of the Young Kindaichi
Hiruko Kirigoe
1995
Say You Love Me
Kaoru Kanzaki
1995
Dangerous Detective
Yuko
1986
Movies(153)
Sinsin and the Mouse
2026
Sheep in the Box
Nobuyo Nishimura
2026
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026
52-Hertz Whales
Noriko Okada
2024
橋ものがたり「約束」
2024
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023
Omokage
2023
To Every You I've Loved Before
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Minoyama
2022
Winter Rose
Michiko Wataguchi
2022
Noise
Hanae Shoji
2022
First Gentleman
2021
Any Crybabies Around?
Setsuko Goto
2020
Hotel Royal
Miko Noshiro
2020
Peaceful Death
2020
Step
Michiyo Muramatsu
2020
Red
Ogata Yoko
2020
AI Amok
Eiko Tanaka
2020
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019
Sleep in the Shadows
2019
An Artist of the Floating World
Mrs. Saito
2019
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
(voice)
2019
Giwaku
2019
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
2018
Enokida Trading Co.
Yoko Shima
2018
The Murder of Kuroido
2018
Omotenashi
Mitsuko
2018
ドラマスペシャル 松本清張 鬼畜
2017
Perfect Revolution
Akiko
2017
Kurara: The Dazzling Life of Hokusai's Daughter
Koto
2017
The Blue Hearts
(segment “Hammer”)
2017
Midnight Diner 2
Chieko
2016
The Ice Ruts
요네자와 사유리
2016
Black Widow Business
Eiko Segawa
2016
Zen and Bones
Kô Mittwer
2016
Solitary Gourmet Summer trip to Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan
2016
Shin Godzilla
Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense
2016
Going against the Grain in Fukushima
Speaker
2015
Parasyte: Part 2
Izumi Nobuko
2015
Solomon's Perjury 2: Judgment
Motoko Ueno
2015
Solomon's Perjury 1: Suspicion
Motoko Ueno
2015
A Stitch of Life
Hiroe Minami
2015
Parasyte: Part 1
Izumi Nobuko
2014
Midnight Diner
Chieko Hanawa
2014
300 Million Yen Robbery
Ryoko Nakaoka
2014
My Little Sweet Pea
Ayako Akaike
2013
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
Mitsuru Funaki
2013
謎解きはディナーのあとで スペシャル～風祭警部の事件簿～
2013
Galileo XX
Yoriko Takasaki
2013
Shield of Straw
2013
Nobody's Perfect
2013
A Story of Yonosuke
Taeko Yokomichi
2013
The Housekeeper
Haruko Inamura
2012
Dearest
Tamiko Hamasaki
2012
Dirty Hearts
Naomi
2012
For Love's Sake
Toyo Taiga
2012
悪女について
Suzuki Tane
2012
Nōhime: Wife of a Samurai
2012
Ace Attorney
Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
2012
Bread of Happiness
Yoko
2012
Father of the Bride
2012
Crossroads
2011
My SO Has Got Depression
Satoko Kurita
2011
Star Watching Dog
Innkeeper
2011
Rebirth
Angel
2011
Soup Opera
Yasuko Tanaka
2010
Villain
Yoriko Shimizu
2010
A Lone Scalpel
Shizuka Takei
2010
Rinco's Restaurant
Ruriko
2010
Air Doll
Receptionist Yoshiko
2009
Dear Doctor
Akemi Ohtake
2009
Where The Legend Lives
2008
Departures
Yuriko Kamimura
2008
Oka wo koete
2008
The Ramen Girl
Reiko
2008
Chacha: The Princess of Heaven
Kita no mandokoro
2007
The Yakuza Principal
2007
Memories of the Womb: You Are Here
2007
Virgin Snow
Mayumi Sasaki
2007
Tokyo Rhapsody
2007
Invisible War
Kinu Murozono
2007
Yamato
2005
Yankee Bokou ni Kaeru SP
Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
2005
Akechi Kogoro vs. Kindaichi Kosuke
Tezuka Yukino
2005
We Shall Overcome Someday
2005
Tokyo Tower
2005
Chicken Is Barefoot
2004
Higuchi Ichiyo Monogatari
2004
Café Lumière
Yoko's Stepmother
2004
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
2004
Fireflies: River of Light
2004
Drugstore Girl
Hideko Mukai
2004
Worst by Chance
Hatsuko Kim
2003
Farewell, Kuro
Eri Yuki
2003
Suspicion
2003
An Autumn Afternoon
Akiko Hirayama
2003
Aiki
2002
Hotel Hibiscus
Mieko's Mother
2002
Oh My God
2002
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
Rume
2002
Dog Star
2002
The Lonely Affair of the Heart
2002
Suicide Club
2001
Asako in Ruby Shoes
Aya's Mother
2000
Another Battle
2000
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
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
Chikako's Mother
2000
Free and Easy 11
2000
The Exam
Midori Chiaki
1999
Wait and See
Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
1998
A Class to Remember III: The New Voyage
Kuramoto
1998
Amagi Pass
1998
Immoral Affairs
1997
20th Century Nostalgia
Anzu's Mother
1997
姑は名探偵芹澤雅子 八丈島南国リゾート殺人事件
1997
Time Leap
1997
An Angel with Many Scars
1997
Happy-Go-Lucky
Man's Lover in TV Drama
1997
Moonlight Serenade
1997
The President's Christmas Tree
1996
Gonin 2
Ran
1996
Haunted School
Yukawa
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
Nami Tsuchiya
1993
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
1993
The Brutal Insanity of Love
Nami Muraki
1993
Passion
1992
The Legend of the Sea, Sky and Coral
1991
寝台特急出羽号 赤い爪痕の女
1991
Kaiki Senyaichiya Monogatari: Kai no Maki
1991
Orchids Under the Moon
1991
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Yumeji
Jiro
1991
Hiruko the Goblin
Reiko's Mother
1991
Kawachi Zankeiden Shamo Chicken (Shamo)
1991
Baian the Assassin
1990
Maria's Stomach
1990
Via Okinawa
1989
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
Managing Director's Daughter
1988
Love Bites Back
Sanae Ebino
1988
The Heartbreak Yakuza
1987
hana –1970, Koza ga moeta hi–
Haru and Tae