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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.

Shin Godzilla ( 2016) | IMDb: 6.8

Action , Horror , Science fiction

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Starring:

Hiroki Hasegawa , Yutaka Takenouchi , Satomi Ishihara , Kengo Kora , Satoru Matsuo , Mikako Ichikawa

Directed by:

Shinji Higuchi , Ikki Todoroki , Kazuhiro Nakagawa

Produced by:

Taichi Ueda , Yoshihiro Sato , Kensei Mori

The Ramen Girl ( 2008) | IMDb: 6.3

Comedy , Drama , Romance

An American woman is stranded in Tokyo after breaking up with her boyfriend. Searching for direction in life, she trains to be a ramen chef under a tyrannical Japanese master.

Starring:

Brittany Murphy , Tammy Blanchard , Gabriel Mann , Toshiyuki Nishida , Soji Arai , Kimiko Yo

Directed by:

Ed Licht , Robert Allan Ackerman

Produced by:

Stewart Hall , Michael Eliasberg , Yōko Narahashi

Haunted School ( 1995) | IMDb: 6.2

Family , Horror

A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking for her, only to find that they, too, are trapped inside. They must somehow find their way to safety, and quickly, because the rumors of ghosts are turning out to be true.

Starring:

Hironobu Nomura , Ayako Sugiyama , Masahiro Sato , Kimiko Yo , Kaoru Mizuki , Masumi Touyama

Directed by:

Hideyuki Hirayama

Produced by:

Hideyuki Takai

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Biography