Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo
Native name	余 貴美子
Born	(1956-05-12) 12 May 1956 Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1987 – present

Kimiko Yo (余 貴美子, Yo Kimiko, born 12 May 1956) is a Japanese actress. She was given Best Supporting Actress awards at the 2004 and the 2009 Yokohama Film Festival ceremonies. She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Departures and Dear Doctor respectively.

Family

Yo was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. Her father is Hakka Taiwanese, and her mother is Japanese. Her father moved to Japan for business and later founded the Hakka Association in Japan.

Filmography

• A Sign Days (1989)
• Hiruko the Goblin (1991)
• Yumeji (1991)
• Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer (1993)
• Ghost Pub (1994)
• Sharaku (1995)
• School Ghost Stories (1995)
• Moonlight Serenade (1997)
• Tsuribaka Nisshi Eleven (2000)
• New Battles Without Honor and Humanity (2000)
• Suicide Club (2002)
• Aiki (2002)
• Café Lumière (2003)
• Drugstore Girl (2004)
• Tokyo Tower (2005)
• Break Through! (2005)
• Yamato (2005)
• Virgin Snow (2007)
• The Ramen Girl (2008)
• Departures (2008)
• Air Doll (2009)
• Dear Doctor (2009)
• Villain (2010)
• Rebirth (2011)
• Hoshi Mamoru Inu (2011)
• Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (2011)
• Dirty Hearts (2011)
• Shiawase no Pan (2012)
• Ace Attorney (2012)
• Gaiji Keisatsu (2012)
• Ai to Makoto (2012)
• Anata e (2012)
• Shield of Straw (2013)
• A Story of Yonosuke (2013)
• Parasyte: Part 1 (2014)
• Shinya Shokudō (2015)
• Tsukuroi Tatsu Hito (2015)

External links

• Official agency profile (Japanese)
• Kimiko Yo at the Internet Movie Database
• Kimiko Yo at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)