Acting credits
218
Prolific
Very extensive acting filmography.
Actor
Kimiko Yo
Acting
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Movies: 146Series: 72
TMDB ID: 80864
IMDb ID: nm0948263
Known for: Acting
Born: May 12, 1956
Age: 69
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1986 - 2026
Years active: 41
Average TMDB rating: 6.8
Wikidata: Q1059767
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.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Kimiko Yo.
The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat
2026 Movie
8.2
52-Hertz Whales
as Noriko Okada
2024 Movie
8.2
Mentai Piriri – Flower of Pansy
2023 Movie
Omokage
2023 Movie
6.0
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022 Movie
6.6
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
2022 Movie
7.3
Everything Will Be Owlright!
as Minoyama
2022 Movie
5.0
Winter Rose
as Michiko Wataguchi
2022 Movie
5.9
Noise
as Hanae Shoji
2022 Movie
4.5
First Gentleman
2021 Movie
5.2
Any Crybabies Around?
as Setsuko Goto
2020 Movie
4.6
Hotel Royal
as Miko Noshiro
2020 Movie
6.4
Peaceful Death
2020 Movie
7.2
Step
as Michiyo Muramatsu
2020 Movie
4.7
Red
as Ogata Yoko
2020 Movie
7.1
AI Amok
as Eiko Tanaka
2020 Movie
6.5
Show Me the Way to the Station
2019 Movie
6.0
Aging Police / Resurrection Special
2019 Movie
Sleep in the Shadows
2019 Movie
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito
2019 Movie
7.2
BON-UTA, A Song from Home
as (voice)
2019 Movie
6.0
Giwaku
2019 Movie
7.0
Uta Monogatari: Cinema Fighters Project
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
2018 Movie
6.0
Enokida Trading Co.
as Yoko Shima
2018 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Kimiko Yo.
Apr 27
Straight to Hell
1 eps
2026 Series
7.6
Usotoki Rhetoric
1 eps
2024 Series
7.8
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
as 高橋文世 • 3 eps
2024 Series
8.0
Shinjuku Field Hospital
as Ritsuko Nishi Freeman • 11 eps
2024 Series
5.5
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
as Tendo Ichiko • 11 eps
2024 Series
9.5
The Gift of Your Heart
as Yukino Aihara • 11 eps
2024 Series
7.6
Trillion Game
as Mitsuzono Shizuku • 10 eps
2023 Series
10.0
The Kind-Hearted Cat
as Matsuko • 5 eps
2023 Series
7.7
Sanctuary
8 eps
2023 Series
7.0
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
1 eps
2023 Series
2.0
My Happy Divorced Life
6 eps
2023 Series
6.7
The Files of Young Kindaichi
as Hiruko Kirigoe • 2 eps
2022 Series
Dream Team
as Yoshie Andou • 8 eps
2021 Series
7.0
Toubousha
2 eps
2020 Series
Sugu Shinun Dakara
as Mori Kaoru • 5 eps
2020 Series
4.5
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
as Shibusawa Wakako • 10 eps
2020 Series
Miss Jikocho-Professor Tenno's Survey File
as 南雲喜里子 • 10 eps
2019 Series
5.4
Death Office
as Shingu • 10 eps
2019 Series
Welcome to National Treasures
2 eps
2019 Series
7.3
The Naked Director
as Kozue Muranishi • 3 eps
2019 Series
7.8
dele
1 eps
2018 Series
7.8
Half Blue Sky
as Kimika Okada • 156 eps
2018 Series
7.3
Innocent Days
as Michiko Tanaka • 6 eps
2018 Series
8.0
The Public Enemy
as Akiko Kawarada • 10 eps
2017 Series