Kimiko Yo

Kimiko Yo
Kimiko Yo
余貴美子
Born	12 May 1956 (age 68); 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.^[1]^[2] She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for Departures and Dear Doctor respectively.^[3]^[4]

Family

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

Filmography

Films

Chōchin (1987)
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)
Wait and See (1998)
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)
The Lone Scalpel (2010)
Rebirth (2011)
Hoshi Mamoru Inu (2011)
Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite (2011)
Dirty Hearts (2011)
Bread of Happiness (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)
A Stitch of Life (2015), Hiroe Minami
Shin Godzilla (2016)
Black Widow Business (2016)
Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories (2016)
Perfect Revolution (2017)
Ringside Story (2017)
Sleep in the Shadows (2019), Akiho Yoshimura
Show Me the Way to the Station (2019)
AI Amok (2020)
Step (2020)
Shape of Red (2020)
Any Crybabies Around? (2020)
Hotel Royal (2020)^[5]
Peaceful Death (2021)
First Gentleman (2021), Takako Sōma^[6]
Noise (2022)^[7]
A Winter Rose (2022), Michiko^[8]
Everything Will Be Owlright! (2022), Minoshima^[9]
To Every You I've Loved Before (2022), old Kazune (voice)^[10]
To Me, the One Who Loved You (2022), old Kazune (voice)^[11]
Mentai Piriri: Flower of Pansy (2023), Tsuru Yoshida^[12]
52-Hertz Whales (2024), Noriko Okada^[13]

Television

Atsuhime (2008), Fusahime
Half Blue Sky (2018), Kimika Okada
Innocent Days (2018)
Kuroido Goroshi (2018), Tsuneko Raisen
The Naked Director (2019)
The Fugitive (2020), Hanae Yonemoto
Sanctuary (2023), Sanae
Trillion Game (2023), Shizuki Mitsuzono^[14]
The Tiger and Her Wings (2024), Yuri Hoshi^[15]

Honours

Medal with Purple Ribbon (2019)

References

^ "Yokohama Film Festival: 2004". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 17 August 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
^ "Yokohama Film Festival: 2009". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.
^ 第 32 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
^ 第 33 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 5 January 2011.
^ "松山ケンイチ、安田顕ら17人が「ホテルローヤル」に出演、公開は11月13日". Natalie. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
^ "田中圭×中谷美紀「総理の夫」の公開日決定、新キャスト9人や映像も解禁". Natalie. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
^ "ノイズ". eiga.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
^ "冬薔薇（ふゆそうび）". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
^ "香取慎吾主演、映画『犬も食わねどチャーリーは笑う』井之脇海・的場浩司・眞島秀和ら出演". Oricon. Retrieved 23 June 2022.
^ "僕が愛したすべての君へ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^ "君を愛したひとりの僕へ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
^ "めんたいぴりり2023". eiga.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.
^ "52ヘルツのクジラたち". eiga.com. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
^ "『トリリオンゲーム』目黒蓮“ハル”が色気溢れるホストに…美しい回し蹴り＆耳元囁きは「眼福」【ネタバレあり】". plus.tver.jp. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
^ "朝ドラ「虎に翼」毎田暖乃が成長した優未を演じる、星航一の継母役で余貴美子も登場". Natalie. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

External links

Official agency profile Archived 24 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
Kimiko Yo at IMDb
Kimiko Yo at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)

[1] "Yokohama Film Festival: 2004". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 17 August 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.

[2] "Yokohama Film Festival: 2009". Internet Movie Database. Archived from the original on 3 August 2009. Retrieved 16 April 2009.

[3] 第 32 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

[4] 第 33 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 (in Japanese). Japan Academy Prize. Retrieved 5 January 2011.

[5] "松山ケンイチ、安田顕ら17人が「ホテルローヤル」に出演、公開は11月13日". Natalie. Retrieved 26 June 2020.

[6] "田中圭×中谷美紀「総理の夫」の公開日決定、新キャスト9人や映像も解禁". Natalie. Retrieved 25 March 2021.

[7] "ノイズ". eiga.com. Retrieved 27 October 2021.

[8] "冬薔薇（ふゆそうび）". eiga.com. Retrieved 31 March 2022.

[9] "香取慎吾主演、映画『犬も食わねどチャーリーは笑う』井之脇海・的場浩司・眞島秀和ら出演". Oricon. Retrieved 23 June 2022.

[10] "僕が愛したすべての君へ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

[11] "君を愛したひとりの僕へ". eiga.com. Retrieved 5 August 2022.

[12] "めんたいぴりり2023". eiga.com. Retrieved 24 August 2022.

[13] "52ヘルツのクジラたち". eiga.com. Retrieved 14 December 2023.

[14] "『トリリオンゲーム』目黒蓮“ハル”が色気溢れるホストに…美しい回し蹴り＆耳元囁きは「眼福」【ネタバレあり】". plus.tver.jp. 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 August 2023.

[15] "朝ドラ「虎に翼」毎田暖乃が成長した優未を演じる、星航一の継母役で余貴美子も登場". Natalie. Retrieved 30 July 2024.

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Kimiko Yo
余貴美子
Born	(1956-05-12) 12 May 1956 (age 68) Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1987 – present