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- Died
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Yoko Yamamoto was born on March 17, 1942 in the Nakano ward of Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Kokugakuin High School, she started working for Nomura Shoken (a major stock brokerage firm in Japan), but in 1963, one of her colleagues entered her in Nikkatsu Studio's audition. She was selected and started her career for Nikkatsu Studio and made her screen debut on movie "Hana to Dotou" in 1964.
She is perhaps best known in the west in her role as Itoko Koyanagi in the movie Daikyojyu Gappa a.k.a. Monster from a Prehistoric Planet (1967).
Yamamoto's career took off when she started to star in TV dramas such as "Shirobanba", "Shichinin no mago", "Shiroi Kage" and "Shiroi Kassouro". The TV program she stars in usually had high ratings, and she was in demand throughout the '70s, '80s, and '90s. In 1980, she started to branch out into stage acting, and has been active to this day.
- IMDb mini biography by: ebiros2
- In the movies, she was unable to produce many works due to the popularity of Sayuri Yoshinaga and other members of the Nikkatsu Sannin Musume' group, but she gained popularity for her Japanese-style, pure beauty after she entered the TV drama series,.
- She has established herself as an actress by covering everything from innocent roles to evil roles and she has gained popularity as one of the highest rated actresses who has played a wide range of roles.
- She made her debut as an actress in 1963 (although some mass media may state that she made her debut in April 1964 ).
- From around 2012, at the age of 70, she moved from Tokyo to Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture to enjoy a second life .
- She has been paying attention to his health by training his legs and hips and drinking Korean ginseng for over 30 years (as of 2022).
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