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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.
as Nobuyo Nishimura
as Noriko Okada
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
as Kazune Takigawa (old woman) (voice)
as Minoyama
as Michiko Wataguchi
as Hanae Shoji
as Setsuko Goto
as Miko Noshiro
as Michiyo Muramatsu
as Ogata Yoko
as Eiko Tanaka
as Mrs. Saito
as (voice)
as Cafe's manager (segment "Our Birthday")
as Yoko Shima
as Mitsuko
as Akiko
as (segment “Hammer”)
as Chieko
as 요네자와 사유리
as Eiko Segawa
as Kô Mittwer
as Reiko Hanamori
as Speaker
as Izumi Nobuko
as Motoko Ueno
as Motoko Ueno
as Hiroe Minami
as Izumi Nobuko
as Chieko Hanawa
as Ryoko Nakaoka
as Ayako Akaike
as Mitsuru Funaki
as Yoriko Takasaki
as Chieko Kuroki
as Taeko Yokomichi
as Haruko Inamura
as Tamiko Hamasaki
as Naomi
as Toyo Taiga
as Suzuki Tane
as Maiko Ayasato (Misty Fey)
as Yoko
as Satoko Kurita
as Innkeeper
as Angel
as Yasuko Tanaka
as Yoriko Shimizu
as Shizuka Takei
as Ruriko
as Receptionist Yoshiko
as Akemi Ohtake
as Yuriko Kamimura
as Reiko
as Kita no mandokoro
as Mayumi Sasaki
as Kinu Murozono
as Ando Yukiko [Teacher]
as Tezuka Yukino
as Yoko's Stepmother
as Hideko Mukai
as Hatsuko Kim
as Eri Yuki
as Akiko Hirayama
as Mieko's Mother
as Rume
as Aya's Mother
as Chikako's Mother
as Midori Chiaki
as Wife of Hiroshi's Brother
as Kuramoto
as Anzu's Mother
as Man's Lover in TV Drama
as Ran
as Professor Yukawa
as Nami Tsuchiya
as Nami Muraki
as Nami / Yoko
as Jiro
as Reiko's Mother
as Managing Director's Daughter
as Sanae Ebino
