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Kimiko Yo
Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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…
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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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2026
The Canary's Lullaby
Movie
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2026
Otoko Tomodachi
Movie
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2026
The Invisibles
Movie
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2026
Sinsin and the Mouse
Movie
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2026
Sheep in the Box
Movie Nobuyo Nishimura
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2026
Straight to Hell
TV show Kiyo Mita
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2026
Euthanasia Special Zone
Movie
- 2026
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2024
Usotoki Rhetoric
TV show
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2024
Shrink: Psychiatrist Yowai
TV show Fumiyo Takahashi
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2024
Shinjuku Field Hospital
TV show Ritsuko Nishi Freeman
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2024
Re: Revenge - At the End of Desire
TV show Tendo Ichiko
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2024
52-Hertz Whales
Movie Noriko Okada
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2024
橋ものがたり「約束」
Movie
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2024
The Gift of Your Heart
TV show Yukino Aihara
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2023
Trillion Game
TV show Mitsuzono Shizuku
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2023
The Kind-Hearted Cat
TV show Matsuko
- 2023
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2023
Sanctuary
TV show
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2023
Kazama Kimichika: Kyojo Zero
TV show
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2023
Omokage
Movie
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2023
My Happy Divorced Life
TV show
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2022
To Me, the One Who Loved You
Movie Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
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2022
To Every You I've Loved Before
Movie Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
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2022
Everything Will Be Owlright!
Movie Minoyama
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2022
Winter Rose
Movie Michiko Wataguchi
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2022
The Files of Young Kindaichi
TV show Hiruko Kirigoe
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2022
Noise
Movie Hanae Shoji
- 2022
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2021
Matrilineal Family
TV show Kimie Kobayashi
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2021
First Gentleman
Movie
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2021
Dream Team
TV show Yoshie Andou
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2020
Toubousha
TV show
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2020
Any Crybabies Around?
Movie Setsuko Goto
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2020
Hotel Royal
Movie Miko Noshiro
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2020
Sugu Shinun Dakara
TV show Mori Kaoru
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2020
Peaceful Death
Movie
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2020
Step
Movie Michiyo Muramatsu
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2020
Red
Movie Ogata Yoko
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2020
AI Amok
Movie Eiko Tanaka
