Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo

actress

Kimiko Yo was born on May 12, 1956 in Japan. Kimiko Yo's big-screen debut came with Saraba itoshiki hito yo directed by Masato Harada in 1987. Kimiko Yo is known for The Files of Young Kindaichi directed by Shunpei Maruya, Shunsuke Michieda stars as Hajime Kindaichi and Moka Kamishiraishi as Miyuki Nanase. Kimiko Yo has got 9 awards and 4 nominations so far. The most recent award Kimiko Yo achieved is Awards of the Japanese Academy. The upcoming new tvshow Kimiko Yo plays is The Files of Young Kindaichi - Season 1 which will be released on Apr 23, 2022.

Yo Kimiko 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.

  • Birthday

    May 12, 1956
  • Place of Birth

    Yokohama, Japan
  • Also known

    요 키미코, 余貴美子

Known For

Awards

9 wins & 4 nominations

Awards of the Japanese Academy
2013
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Award of the Japanese Academy
2010
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Award of the Japanese Academy
2009
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Award of the Japanese Academy
Mainichi Film Concours
2009
Winner - Tanaka Kinuyo Award
1999
Best Supporting Actress
Winner - Mainichi Film Concours
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