Date of birth: 1956-05-12
Place of birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as:

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.

2019-10-18
A young girl, Sayaka, develops a heartwarming friendship with an old man named Hasu. Based on an awa
2000-08-05
An officer struggles to solve a murder case despite being at odds with his lieutenant. Officer Tetsu

2022-01-27
Shishikari is a remote island, which is behind the times. The island suffers from a decreasing popul

2016-08-03

2003-07-01
Based on a true story set in Matsumoto city, Nagano, during 1960s. A stray dog wanders into a high s

1994-09-09
Jiro becomes a happy instructor but a shocking suspicion was raised by Owada who took the place of h

2010-09-11
Shimizu Yuichi is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time correspond

1994-05-01
Detective Suwon was involved on the war on drugs in Yokohama because of his mischief.

2000-05-12
The third and final V-Cinema sequel.

1991-01-11
Junko Mihara is full of mysterious charm and is involved in ambitious work.

1991-05-11
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they

2003-09-13
Hidenori is a Japanese-Korean man with no sense of belonging, destination or education. He drifts ar

2008-09-13
Daigo, a cellist, is laid off from his orchestra and moves with his wife back to his small hometown

1996-06-29
Five women snatch one billion yen in jewellery from the yakuza, while construction manager Toyama bu

1995-06-09
A V-Cinema effort from the mid-90s starring Show Aikawa and Misa Aika. Misa Aika plays Miyuki, a hig

2008-02-08
An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction

1999-07-03
Togashi, an enthusiastic marathon runner and his wife are occupied with their daughter Mayumi's grad

2007-05-12
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he mee

2000-11-25
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza


2002-06-22
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connect

2011-04-29
After the collapse of their relationship, Kiwako abducts the 6-month old child of a man she was havi

2010-02-06
After a bad breakup, a young woman returns to her hometown and opens a menuless restaurant. A young

2021-09-23
Hiyori (Kei Tanaka) is an ornithologist (expert on birds). His wife is Rinko (Miki Nakatani). She is

2012-06-16
Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then

2011-06-10
An abandoned car is discovered near a camping ground and inside it is the body of an identified midd

2011-12-03
Domestic drama focusing on a soon to be retired train driver and his wife.

2012-08-25
The posthumous wish of Eiji's wife is for her ashes to be scattered in the ocean near her hometown.

2019-02-15
Taiko drummer, Hisakatsu Yokoyama, and fellow evacuees of Futaba, Fukushima fight to keep their belo

2019-09-29

2012-01-28
A couple decide to relocate from Tokyo to the northern island of Hokkaido where they settle and esta
1997-07-11

1995-05-13
A youth romance that fantastically depicts the unstable emotions of high school girls who refuse to

2002-04-27
A seeing-eye dog (Shiro) is granted one wish by his former owner. He chooses to become a human for a

2022-06-03
Jun Wataguchi lives a lazy, half-hearted life, not going to school, hanging out with half-witted del

1991-06-27
Jinpachi Nezu who lost both his wife and daughter during a feud against the yakuza 10 years ago whil

2011-10-08
Mikio is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is di

2013-12-21
It isn't easy to find a dream to chase when you're young, but Mugiko has one: she can't wait to beco

2013-12-14
In this love story set in the Edo period, 27-year-old Oharu is a genius in the kitchen. Oharu attrac

2017-12-24

2009-07-27
Osamu Ino is a great doctor who is beloved in his rural village. His knowledge and dedication make a

1993-06-26
A policewoman investigates the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the gi

2022-10-07
Koyomi Hidaka and Shiori Sato meet at his father’s research center and begin to fall in love, but so

2022-10-07
While struggling to make friends after his parents’ divorce, Koyomi Takasaki meets Kazune Takigawa,

2002-11-29
When a promising young boxer is crippled in a car accident, he falls into a life of dissipation and

2004-09-01
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a w

2023-06-09
Toshiyuki and his wife, Chiyoko, run a store named “Fukunoya” in Fukuoka. They become friends with a

1988-11-26
A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, j

2013-03-23
"Daijobu 3 Kumi" depicts the interactions between new teacher Shinnosuke Akao, who was born without

2022-09-23
Tamura Yujiro and Hiyori have been married for four years. They look like a happily married couple,

1997-04-19
An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to h

2014-11-01
A restaurant opens at midnight. Both the menu offerings and personality of the owner draw a series o

1997-03-17
Takashi and four of his classmates, fourth-grade students, cannot succeed in doing a back pullover a

1993-10-08
Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.

2015-04-25
Humanity is under attack by human-mimicking flesh-eating alien parasites. One parasite bonds with hi

2014-11-29
Humanity is suffering from a series of mysterious murders across the globe, known as the 'Mincemeat

2002-10-28
Hotel Hibiscus is the story of one very young energetic girl named Mieko and her international famil

2000-05-07
In this startling psychological thriller from Japan, Mami (Hijiri Kojima) is a teacher who meets Tom

2007-02-10
Kitahara Shuji, an ordinary business man turns into a spy for his town's war against a neighboring t

2005-01-15
Toru Kojima and his friend Koji are young student boys with one thing in common - they both love to

2008-11-01
Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the anc

2007-05-12
"Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku"

1997-06-07
Time travel film

1991-06-14
After his fiancée is killed in the crossfire of a yakuza turf war, a man on the edge remorselessly h

2024-03-01
After a life of abuse, Kiko moves to a quiet seaside town. There, she meets a young boy who, like he

2012-04-30
Erika Sawajiri plays Kimiko, the main character of the story who has died. Although the title implie

2015-06-03
Tenei village is located in Fukushima prefecture's beautiful surrounds. It is 70 kilometers away fro

2014-01-18

1993-12-18
Jiro is a Tokyo man who offers a stand-in service where he'll do "anything". A woman claiming to be

1994-10-22
An undercover narcotics officer is killed, and after his funeral some yakuza break into his apartmen

2007-06-20
Born into a wealthy family, 17-year-old Masato (Emoto Tasuku) has never been deprived of material co

2013-02-23
The year is 1987 and Japan is just reaching the peak of its economic success. Eighteen-year old Yono

2004-06-05
After finally passing his teacher's exam, Miwa (Yukiyoshi Ozawa) devoted himself to teaching in a ru

1998-12-19
A salaryman faces a major life change as his firm undergoes financial difficulties. To add to his tr

1991-08-25
Horror film released in 1991.

2023-03-27

2016-07-29
When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra

1990-07-21
A carnivorous monster lives on the island of Sipang. A group of office ladies band together to fight

2001-10-29
When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train

2016-08-27
Kozo Nakase attends meetings for single widowers looking to remarry. He meets Sayoko Takeuchi and ev

2016-11-05
The Master’s late-night diner welcomes a woman troubled by funeral fans, an elderly scam victim, and

1997-03-15
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother af

2005-01-22
Romeo, A.K.A. Kosuke Matsuyama, is a second-year high school student. A nice, normal, nonviolent typ

2017-04-08
Six directors picked a favorite song by Japanese punk rock band "The Blue Hearts" and made a short f

2009-09-26
A life-size, inflatable sex doll suddenly comes to life one day. Without her owner knowing, she goes

2017-09-29
Kuma is an author, a sex obsessive and a wheelchair user. Beautiful and volatile Ryoko is unlike any

2000-03-18
Kawamoto works and lives in a dilapidated pool hall which also serves as a rehearsal space for him a

1988-07-01
Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a

1989-06-09
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and

2018-03-03
Cultures meet and values are learnt through the renovation of an inn.

1987-09-12
A hardened gangster encounters by chance a woman he hasn't seen since childhood. They are both engul

2017-04-18
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika

1997-07-26
A young student believes that the spirit of an alien from another planet has gone back in time, taki

1995-07-08
A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is r

2016-08-26
The story of Henri Mitowa, a 93-year old Japanese monk, who wants to make a movie based on his own l

2012-12-22
Nobuko is a plain, unattractive woman with disheveled hair, and is hired as a housekeeper in the Ina

2016-11-05
Mayu Daimon is a woman who does not remember her mother's face, and her father is the only person sh

1992-04-25
A man tries to mend his past by helping his best friend’s sister.

1996-11-23

2018-06-09
Enokida Trading Post is a second-hand shop run by Yojiro Enokida , whose personal mantra is, "Anythi

2008-05-17

2004-08-22
2004 film

2010-06-05
Dr Toma, a skilled surgeon, starts work at a regional hospital in Japan. After performing an operati

2018-04-14
March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death

1998-01-01
A fifteen year old boy travels through the Amagi Pass, he encounters some strange people, one of the

2020-01-31
In 2030, AI is everywhere including the medical field, finance and security. Artificial intelligence

2007-12-22
Chacha, the woman of the blood of Nobunaga, who loved with Hideyoshi, and feared Tokugawa.

1991-05-31
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter

2012-07-21
In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For

2002-07-06
Hana is a nineteen-year old expectant mother. She travels with her grandmother's ashes to her grandm

1997-10-18
Immoral Affairs (Fukigen na kajitsu) is a Japanese film made in 1997 and directed by Katsuo Naruse.I

2004-11-01
Higuchi Ichiyo is the first female professional novelist in Japanese literature. This tanpatsu drama

2013-04-25
Ninagawa is a powerful man in Japanese politics and with top economic connections.His granddaughter

2000-12-09
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Kore

2000-02-05
Hama-chan accompanies Su-san on a business trip to Okinawa in the middle of the recession, but Su-sa

2005-12-17
Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the pre

2020-02-21
A married woman with a lovely daughter lives a carefree life, until she meets her ex-lover at a frie

2020-11-13
Set at the Hotel Royal, situated in the marshland of Hokkaido, Japan, and follows the guests, the fa

2019-02-03
Sahara Takako is a lawyer who specialises in civil cases. She hates to lose and will use whatever me

2012-02-11
Based primarily on the first game in the series, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the film focuses on r

2018-06-22
Six Stories based on Six Songs.

2020-11-20
A man has a baby, runs away, then comes back, but he can't just show up, apologize, and hope that ma

2012-01-08
The story is set against the beautiful scenery of Yamakoshi, Niigata, which is also known for bullfi

1995-06-02
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi

2010-10-02
Sakai plays Rui, a 35-year-old single woman forced to live alone after the aunt who raised her sudde

2020-07-17
Single father Kenichi has raised his daughter Miki alone for the past ten years, from when she atten

2020-07-25

2002-03-16

2015-03-07
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by

2015-04-11
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by

1990-12-26
Fujieda Baian is admired during the day as a skilled acupuncturist. However, his nighttime persona i

1991-12-16
A mother and her daughter move from the urban sprawl of Tokyo to the remote island of Ishigaki in th

2019-03-30
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art sol

2019-09-06
Fuyuki is an established artist who runs several bars in Yokohama. One day, injured Shinji runs into

1998-10-17
A widow who has single-handedly raised her autistic son loses her job and begins attending a technic

2015-01-31
Ichie is the owner of a dressmaking shop. Her grandmother started the shop and now Ichie runs the bu

2012-03-17
The mysterious life of Princess Nouhime.

2007-10-01
Junji, the protagonist of FM89.3MHz, must become the principal of a nursery school in Kabukicho afte

2013-06-22
A spin-off from popular Japanese TV series "Galileo". Episode XX tells the story of female detective

2003-03-22
A car carrying a wealthy man and his second wife, Kumako (Yo Kimiko), falls into the sea, and only K
1991-12-16
On the night train home from a memorial service, a detective meets a woman who has killed her sick f

1991-05-11
A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they

2004-11-13
A disabled child of separated parents gets caught up in police espionage due to his uncanny ability

2005-03-27
In 1988, Hokkaido's Hokusei Yoichi High School became the first high school in Japan to accept stude

2005-02-26
The two most famous Japanese mystery characters have come together to solve a crime. A year ago, a m

2026-01-09
It is the year 1988. Yamabuki is an eight-year-old little boy growing up in a traditional family whe

2003-01-03
A 2003 version of the 1962 original. Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Grad

2013-08-02

One day, a lonely old woman meets a strange, childlike creature. Together, they embark on a fantasti