{{Short description|Japanese actress (born 1956)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Kimiko Yo | native_name = 余 貴美子 | native_name_lang = ja | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|5|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Actress | years_active = 1987–present | spouse = | website = | awards = }} {{nihongo|'''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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yokohama Film Festival: 2004 |url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Yokohama_Film_Festival/2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817011937/https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Yokohama_Film_Festival/2004 |archive-date=2009-08-17 |access-date=2009-04-16 |publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yokohama Film Festival: 2009 |url=https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Yokohama_Film_Festival/2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803132217/https://www.imdb.com/Sections/Awards/Yokohama_Film_Festival/2009 |archive-date=2009-08-03 |access-date=2009-04-16 |publisher=Internet Movie Database}}</ref> She won the award for best supporting actress at the 32nd and at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize for ''Departures'' and ''Dear Doctor'' respectively.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=32 |script-title=ja:第 32 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品 |access-date=2011-01-05 |language=ja |publisher=Japan Academy Prize |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714155924/http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=32 |archive-date=14 July 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.japan-academy-prize.jp/prizes/?t=33 |script-title=ja:第 33 回日本アカデミー賞優秀作品|access-date= 2011-01-05|language= ja|publisher= Japan Academy Prize}}</ref>
==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=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role |- | 1987 | ''Chōchin'' | — |- | 1989 | ''A Sign Days'' | — |- | 1991 | ''Hiruko the Goblin'' | — |- | 1991 | ''Yumeji'' | — |- | 1993 | ''Evil Dead Trap 3: Broken Love Killer'' | — |- | 1994 | ''Ghost Pub'' | — |- | 1995 | ''Sharaku'' | — |- | 1995 | ''School Ghost Stories'' | — |- | 1997 | ''Moonlight Serenade'' | — |- | 1998 | ''Wait and See'' | — |- | 2000 | ''Tsuribaka Nisshi Eleven'' | — |- | 2000 | ''New Battles Without Honor and Humanity'' | — |- | 2002 | ''Suicide Club'' | — |- | 2002 | ''Aiki'' | — |- | 2003 | ''Café Lumière'' | — |- | 2004 | ''Drugstore Girl'' | — |- | 2005 | ''Tokyo Tower'' | — |- | 2005 | ''Break Through!'' | — |- | 2005 | ''Yamato'' | — |- | 2007 | ''Virgin Snow'' | — |- | 2008 | ''The Ramen Girl'' | — |- | 2008 | ''Departures'' | — |- | 2009 | ''Air Doll'' | — |- | 2009 | ''Dear Doctor'' | — |- | 2010 | ''Villain'' | — |- | 2010 | ''The Lone Scalpel'' | — |- | 2011 | ''Rebirth'' | — |- | 2011 | ''Hoshi Mamoru Inu'' | — |- | 2011 | ''Tsure ga Utsu ni Narimashite'' | — |- | 2011 | ''Dirty Hearts'' | — |- | 2012 | ''Bread of Happiness'' | — |- | 2012 | ''Ace Attorney'' | — |- | 2012 | ''Gaiji Keisatsu'' | — |- | 2012 | ''Ai to Makoto'' | — |- | 2012 | ''Anata e'' | — |- | 2013 | ''Shield of Straw'' | — |- | 2013 | ''A Story of Yonosuke'' | — |- | 2014 | ''Parasyte: Part 1'' | — |- | 2015 | ''Shinya Shokudō'' | — |- | 2015 | ''A Stitch of Life'' | Hiroe Minami |- | 2016 | ''Shin Godzilla'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/81507/|title= シン・ゴジラ|access-date= 2 June 2025|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2016 | ''Black Widow Business'' | — |- | 2016 | ''Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories'' | — |- | 2017 | ''Perfect Revolution'' | — |- | 2017 | ''Ringside Story'' | — |- | 2019 | ''Sleep in the Shadows'' | Akiho Yoshimura |- | 2019 | ''Show Me the Way to the Station'' | — |- | 2020 | ''AI Amok'' | — |- | 2020 | ''Step'' | — |- | 2020 | ''Shape of Red'' | — |- | 2020 | ''Any Crybabies Around?'' | — |- | 2020 | ''Hotel Royal'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/384933|title= 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|access-date= June 26, 2020|work= Natalie}}</ref> |- | 2021 | ''Peaceful Death'' | — |- | 2021 | ''First Gentleman'' | Takako Sōma<ref>{{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/421259|title= 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|access-date= March 25, 2021|work= Natalie}}</ref> |- | 2022 | ''Noise'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/95143/|title= ノイズ|access-date= October 27, 2021|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2022 | ''A Winter Rose'' | Michiko<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/96229/|title= 冬薔薇（ふゆそうび）|access-date= March 31, 2022|work= eiga.com}}</ref> |- | 2022 | ''Everything Will Be Owlright!'' | Minoshima<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2239719/full/|title= 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|access-date= June 23, 2022|work= Oricon}}</ref> |- | 2022 | ''To Every You I've Loved Before'' | Old Kazune <small>(voice)</small><ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/95718/|title= 僕が愛したすべての君へ|access-date= August 5, 2022|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2022 | ''To Me, the One Who Loved You'' | Old Kazune <small>(voice)</small><ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/95719/|title= 君を愛したひとりの僕へ|access-date= August 5, 2022|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2023 | ''Mentai Piriri: Flower of Pansy'' | Tsuru Yoshida<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/97652/|title= めんたいぴりり2023|access-date= August 24, 2022|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2024 | ''52-Hertz Whales'' | Noriko Okada<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/100007/|title= 52ヘルツのクジラたち|access-date= December 14, 2023|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''The Imaginary Dog and the Lying Cat'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/104698/|title= 架空の犬と嘘をつく猫|access-date= 29 September 2025|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''Euthanasia Special Zone'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/104474/|title= 安楽死特区|access-date= 29 September 2025|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''The Invisibles'' | Eriko Sunakawa<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/105735/|title= 見えない娘 The Invisibles|access-date= 24 March 2026|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''Sheep in the Box'' | Nobuyo Nishimura<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/104699/|title= 箱の中の羊|access-date= 25 March 2026|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''Sinsin and the Mouse'' | —<ref>{{cite web |url= https://eiga.com/movie/105855/|title= シンシン アンド ザ マウス Sinsin and the Mouse|access-date= 31 March 2026|website= eiga.com|language=ja}}</ref> |}
===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable" ! Year ! Title ! Role |- | 2001 | ''Churasan'' | Yoko Ikehata<ref>{{cite web |url= https://thetv.jp/program/0000001416/cast/|title= ちゅらさんの出演者・キャスト一覧|access-date= 9 May 2025|website= The Television|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2008 | ''Atsuhime'' | Fusahime<ref>{{cite web |url= https://haiyaku.web.fc2.com/08-taiga.html|title= 篤姫|access-date= 9 May 2025|website= Haiyaku Jiten|language=ja}}</ref> |- | 2018 | ''Half Blue Sky'' | Kimika Okada |- | 2018 | ''Innocent Days'' | — |- | 2018 | ''Kuroido Goroshi'' | Tsuneko Raisen |- | 2019 | ''The Naked Director'' | — |- | 2020 | ''The Fugitive'' | Hanae Yonemoto |- | 2023 | ''Sanctuary'' | Sanae |- | 2023 | ''Trillion Game'' | Shizuki Mitsuzono<ref>{{cite web|url= https://plus.tver.jp/news/142866/detail/|title= <nowiki>『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】</nowiki>|date= July 29, 2023|access-date= August 29, 2023|work= plus.tver.jp|archive-date= 17 August 2023|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230817235429/https://plus.tver.jp/news/142866/detail/|url-status= dead}}</ref> |- | 2024 | ''The Tiger and Her Wings'' | Yuri Hoshi<ref>{{cite web |url= https://natalie.mu/eiga/news/584295|title= 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|access-date= 30 July 2024|work= Natalie}}</ref> |- | 2026 | ''Straight to Hell'' | Kiyo Mita<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2431489/full/|title= 伊藤沙莉、生田斗真、石橋蓮司、三浦透子ら出演――Netflixシリーズ『地獄に堕ちるわよ』キャスト解禁|access-date= 20 January 2026|date= 20 January 2026|website= Oricon|language=ja}}</ref> |}
==Honours== *Medal with Purple Ribbon (2019)<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.sankei.com/article/20191102-WYGPLOYGA5PEND27BP67WHRRO4/|title= 紫綬褒章 俳優・余貴美子さん(63）演技力でキャリア確立|access-date= 11 October 2025|date= 2 November 2019|website= Sankei Shimbun|language=ja}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Portal|Japan|Biography}} *[http://www.alpha-agency.com/artist/yo.html Official agency profile] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424010644/http://www.alpha-agency.com/artist/yo.html |date=24 April 2012 }} {{in lang|ja}} *{{IMDb name|id=0948263|name=Kimiko Yo}} *{{jmdb name|id=0368590|name=Kimiko Yo}}
{{Navboxes |title = Awards for Kimiko Yo |list = {{Blue Ribbon Award for Best Supporting Actress}} {{Japan Academy Prize for Best Supporting Actress}} {{Mainichi Film Award for Best Supporting Actress}} {{Nikkan Sports Film Award for Best Supporting Actress}} {{Yokohama Film Festival Best Supporting Actress}} }} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Yo, Kimiko}}
Category:1956 births Category:Actresses from Yokohama Category:Japanese film actresses Category:Japanese television actresses Category:Living people Category:Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon Category:20th-century Japanese actresses Category:21st-century Japanese actresses Category:Japanese people of Taiwanese descent Category:Taiwanese people of Hakka descent