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Kimiko Yo
Known for: ActingKimiko 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.
Filmography 56
Half Blue Sky
as Kimika Okada 
Shin Godzilla
as Reiko Hanamori : Minister of Defense 
Atsuhime
as Hisa-hime 
Mr. Housekeeper, Mitazono
as Yoriko Musubi 
Departures
as Yuriko Kamimura 
Straight to Hell
as Kiyo Mita 
Into the White Night
as Taniguchi Mafumi 
Trillion Game
as Mitsuzono Shizuku 
Shinjuku Field Hospital
as Ritsuko Nishi Freeman 
Sheep in the Box
as Nobuyo Nishimura 
The Ramen Girl
as Reiko 
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
as Tendo Ichiko 
The Gift of Your Heart
as Yukino Aihara 
Be with You
as Hongo Naomi 
Please Don't Chant Buddhist Prayers in the Hospital Room
as Shibusawa Wakako 
Kao
as Kyoko Higuchi（樋口 京子） 
Air Doll
as Receptionist Yoshiko 
Daisuki!!
as Setsuko Kachigawa 
Parasyte: Part 1
as Izumi Nobuko 
Virgin Road
as Michi 
Just One Love
as Akiko Kanzaki 
Death Office
as Shingu 
Evil People
as Chise Fujishima 
Innocent Days
as Michiko Tanaka 
To Every You I've Loved Before
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice) 
To Me, the One Who Loved You
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice) 
Hello, I Love You
as Machi Domoto 
REPLAY＆DESTROY
as fortune-teller woman 
Parasyte: Part 2
as Izumi Nobuko 
Worst by Chance
as Hatsuko Kim 
Hiruko the Goblin
as Reiko's Mother / 
For Love's Sake
as Toyo Taiga 
A Story of Yonosuke
as Taeko Yokomichi 
Midnight Diner 2
as Chieko 
Nobody's Perfect
as Chieko Kuroki 
Galileo XX
as Yoriko Takasaki 
A Tale of Samurai Cooking
as Mitsuru Funaki 
Ace Attorney
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey) 
The Blue Hearts
as (segment “Hammer”) 
Red
as Ogata Yoko 
Midnight Diner
as Chieko Hanawa 
My Little Sweet Pea
as Ayako Akaike 
A Night in Nude
as Nami Tsuchiya 
Gonin 2
as Ran 
An Artist of the Floating World
as Mrs. Saito 
Yumeji
as Jiro 
Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
as Managing Director's Daughter 
The Brutal Insanity of Love
as Nami Muraki