Personal Info
Birth date
1968-02-20 (57 Years)
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
石野陽子
Ishino Youko
Исино Ёко
いしのようこ
Yōko Ishino
Yoko Ishino
Biography
Yōko Ishino(born February 20, 1968) is a Japanese actress and tarento. She was born in Ashiya, Hyōgo. Ishino debuted in 1985 as a pop singer, and first appeared on television in 1986. Her older sister is Mako Ishino. Ishino has also attended in Horikoshi High School with the idol singer Yukiko Okada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Yōko Ishino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo
7.9
Overview:
Detective Ukyo Sugishita confronts crime on the basis of his own convictions. He has a partner that works for him in the Special Task Unit. For the first 7 seasons, Ukyo’s first partner is Kaoru Kameyama. He is a good-natured, hot-tempered, straightforward and somewhat scattered detective. Beginning in Season 8, Takeru Kanbe replaces Kameyama. Contrary to his predecessor, Takeru is a lanky, cool, conceited and confident detective. From Season 11 to Season 13, Ukyo’s partner is a young detective Toru Kai. Toru is a son of Deputy Director-General of The National Police Agency. But he became a detective by his own effort. And starting with Season 14, Ukyo’s current partner is Wataru Kaburagi, an elite bureaucrat who came to the Metropolitan Police Department on temporary assignment. As the first partner without any career of a police officer, he will face challenging cases together with Ukyo.The Unfettered Shogun
8.1
Overview:
Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo to see the life of the common man, as well as to seek out and punish evildoers who would hurt his citizens. He is aided by Magistrate Oo'oka and a vivacious fireman, Tatsugoro, as well as a rotating cast of other recurring characters. Along with Zenigata Heiji and Mito Kōmon, it ranks among the longest-running series in the jidaigeki genre. Like so many other jidaigeki, it falls in the category of kanzen-chōaku, loosely, "rewarding good and punishing evil."GARO
7.9
Overview:
The Makai fight a secret war against the demon forces known as Horrors, evil creatures that manifest themselves through darkness to devour Humanity. On the frontlines are the Makai Knights, given the task of watching over a district and eliminating any Horrors that manifest there. GARO follows the tales of the Knights bearing the title of ‘Golden Knight Garo’, and their duty to vanquish the Horrors and protect Humanity from the darkness.Wakko no kin medaru
NYR
Overview:
The 43th NHK Asadora about a female volleyball player who helps out the local community. Starring Azusa Watanabe.Beppin-san
6.333
Overview:
The 95th NHK Asadora is about Sumire, a girl born in the uptown of Kobe in the early Showa period. In the wake of wartime devastation, she works hard toward making children's clothes for a living, and later establishes a first-ever children's goods store in Japan. -- NHKUnnatural
8.4
Overview:
Mikoto Misumi is a pathologist at UDI (Unnatural Death Investigation) Lab. She can't stand neglecting unnatural deaths and believes there must be a truth behind the deaths. Team members that work with her are autopsy doctor Kai Nakado, recorder Rokuro Kube, clinical test technologist Yuko Shoji and UDI director Yasuo Kamikura. They work on unnatural death cases and try to reveal the truth behind the deaths.A Winter Round Dance
NYR
Overview:
Two babies girls are born, one from a rich doctor's family, the other in the family of a fisherman. An accident occurs during the absence of the doctor, and his daughter is burnt and injured. Ignoring the advice of his wife to apologize for the wound, the fisherman decides to exchange the babies. So they raise Shinobu, the daughter of the doctor, while Chizuko, their real daughter, is raised in the doctor's family. Eighteen years later, their paths cross, their fate continues to be deeply intertwined.ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me?
7.5
Overview:
A paralegal who graduated from a big-name school teams up with an offbeat lawyer, taking on oddball little cases out of a small, neighborhood law office.Solitary Gourmet
8.804
Overview:
Centered around typical Japanese food, a solitary salesman travelling through the country for business purposes, eats at its various establishments and experiences the various delicacies of Japanese cuisine.Akai ito no onna
NYR
Overview:
The story is set in a suburban city facing further modernization and depopulation, and depicts the "burden" shouldered by modern society and its constituents. It is the story of a woman who moves forward, step by step, in her own life as she faces the struggle of hope and confrontation in such a transition.One Missed Call
7.111
Overview:
Yumi, a writer of a science magazine, witnesses a mysterious death of a high school girl who received a "one missed call" from her own cell phone, two weeks in the future. The disturbing message on the cell phone turns out to be the screams of the victim.My Second Aoharu
7
Overview:
Shiratama Sayako has never experienced much good luck. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect. She studied hard, but she repeatedly failed her university entrance exams. Now, she is 30 years old and works in a field far away from her ideal job. One day, she happens to meet mysterious university student Ogasawara Taku. She tells him about her past dream of becoming an architect. Ogasawara Taku tells her that it is never too late and that she can still get accepted into a university. Inspired by their talk, Shiratama Sayako decides to study once again for her university entrance exams. After she studies so hard, she finally gets accepted into a university. There, Shiratama Sayako meets Ogasawara Taku again, who is a senior in the architecture department.High Position (1986)
NYR
Overview:
Mitsuhiko Amano is full of regrets. A 46 year old salaryman who had just been laid off, he was told that his wife wanted a divorce, something that he might have been wanting for years. So he visits a soapland, a place he hasn't been since he started dating his wife 22 years ago. While there, a fire suddenly erupts, trapping Amano and a soapland girl in the bath. In a rare moment of bravery and decisiveness, Amano attempts to lead the girl to safety, only to slip and hit his head. As his consciousness fades, he sees the back of the soapland girl making her escape... A fresh set of regret blankets him as he passes out, he returns to his 16-year-old body while remaining 46 years old. The time is 1986.Ochoyan
6.3
Overview:
In the end of Meiji era, Takei Chiyo was born in a poor family in Osaka, and was sent to a theatre tea room as a servant when she was 9 years old. There, she was attracted by the world of theatre comedy. She grows up to be an actor and marries to Amami Ippei , but the war broke out and she was forced to stay away from acting for a while. However, when she comes back again, her acting in a radio drama impresses many people and makes herself one of the leading actors in western Japan.Drifter's Christmas Presents
10
Overview:
A variety and comedy sketch program featuring The Drifters that was broadcast as a special program on Fuji Television and its affiliate stations during the Christmas season every December for seven years from 1982 to 1988.Godzilla vs. Destoroyah
7.828
Overview:
A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time horrifying new organisms are discovered in Japan. These crustacean-like beings are seemingly born of the Oxygen Destroyer, the weapon that killed the original Godzilla.Strawberry Shortcakes
5.813
Overview:
Follows the ups and downs of four female friends in Tokyo looking for love and trying to cope with the responsibilities in their lives.Hoshi 35
NYR
Overview:
Aki lived her young life with a baby monster, but got separated from it for some reason. Thirty-five years later, a big earthquake hits her home. As the shaking grows stronger, a giant monster emerges… no longer a baby kaiju, the creature has grown…Tokyo Blackout
5.5
Overview:
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.Softball Boys
NYR
Overview:
High school student Noguchi learns that there isn't a single male softball team in the nearby area. He figures if he starts up a softball team, they are sure thing to go to the national tournament. He then persuades his friend Onitsuka to help him start a softball club. Once Noguchi and Onitsuka rounds up enough players, they teams preps to win one all important game in the tournament.Innocent Seven
7.3
Overview:
Seven families are aboard a bus towards a field camp for their vacation. At this camp, it becomes clear that this is not a common trip. The parents are of the kind that abused their children or were visited by children's services, and at the camp they are offered to sell their children for a large sum of money, because there were customers that needed healthy internal organs.Samurai Gangsters
NYR
Overview:
Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master Ohmasa (Kishibe Ittoku); stinky priest Daigoro (Takashi Sasano); well-known stranger Ishimatsu Mori (Yoichi Nukumizu); beautiful Masagoro Oiwake (Kazuki Kitamura); and others. As Jirocho's fame spreads, he gains more enemies. Among them are Katsuzo Kurokoma (Koichi Sato), who is one of the most powerful in Koshu, and the villain who is also Ishimatsu's nemesis, Masaru Mima (Riki Takeuchi). A traitor also emerges from the family, Yoshikazu Ebisu (Yoshikazu Ebisu). Meanwhile, Jirocho's wife falls ill and other terrible situations occur. Jirocho falls into a pinch of absolute despair. What on earth will he do? What is the fate of his minions? The Jirocho family will face a fierce battle...Kaibutsu
NYR
Overview:
Detective Takeo Kosai is about to be demoted. He then plans to entrap Akira Dojima without his partner Detective Emi Ishikawa's knowledge. Akira Dojima kidnapped and killed a girl 15 years agoNew Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Ghost Story
4
Overview:
New kind of horror films are added to "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro" series directed by a cult filmmaker, Noboru Iguchi (Machine Girl). This movie has four episodes starring a Japanese idol group, S/mileage!ホテルマン東堂克生の事件ファイル～八ヶ岳リゾート殺人事件～
NYR
Overview:
Two years ago, Katsuo Todo (Takashi Naito) was appointed as the general manager of the Plato Royal Hotel Yatsugatake from the Plato Tokyo hotel. He works hard every day with his staff to provide the best time and space for our customers. Concierge Shuji Kitayama (Hishine Saku Toshihide) struggles to find a benefactor for guests Pascal Henry (Frederick Benoliel) and his wife Shizuko (Ishino Yoko). The sweets made by young pastry chef Yoshiyuki Sudo (Shunsuke Tanaka) are popular with guests, and popular writer Fuyuki Nakagami (David Ito) even stays just to enjoy them. Sudo has also decided to marry Minori Matsuoka (Rio Yamashita), and Minami Yamashita (Michiko Amekumi), who is in charge of bridal services, is busy preparing for her colleague's wedding.Acting
2025私があなたといる理由～グアムを訪れた3組の男女の1週間～ (1 Episode) as Hiroko Hanada
2023Hoshi 35 as Yukari
2023My Second Aoharu (10 Episodes) as Shiratama Kumiko
2022ISHIKO and HANEO: You're Suing Me? (1 Episode) as Unknown
2022暁鐘 警視庁強行犯係 樋口顕 as Unknown
2022ホテルマン東堂克生の事件ファイル～八ヶ岳リゾート殺人事件～ as Unknown
2020Ochoyan (115 Episodes) as Tomikawa Kiku ["Fukutomi" owner]
2020High Position (1986) (12 Episodes) as 天野幸子
2018Unnatural (1 Episode) as 敷島直美
2016Beppin-san (151 Episodes) as Kotoko Murata
2013Kaibutsu as Unknown
2012Akai ito no onna (44 Episodes) as Toyoko Akagi
2012New Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: Ghost Story as Unknown
2012Solitary Gourmet (1 Episode) as Unknown
2011さくら心中 (63 Episodes) as Unknown
2010Softball Boys as Unknown
2008Samurai Gangsters as Unknown
2007Hyakki Yakoushou (12 Episodes) as Unknown
2006Strawberry Shortcakes as Doctor
2005One Missed Call (2 Episodes) as Unknown
2005GARO (1 Episode) as Toshiko Hoshikawa
2005Innocent Seven as Someko Hashimoto
2005A Winter Round Dance (62 Episodes) as Unknown
2002AIBOU: Tokyo Detective Duo (1, 1 Episode) as Unknown, Nijiko Hakamada
2001The King of Minami: Business Loans - The Guarantor's Trap as Ryoko Sakai
2000The King of Minami: Toichi Ransom as Unknown
2000ＦＬＹ～航空学園グラフィティ～ (10 Episodes) as Saori Uemura
2000The King of Minami: Certified Alibi Trap as Ryoko Sakai
2000The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt as Ryoko Sakai
1999The King of Minami: The Price of Restructuring as Ryoko Sakai
1999The King of Minami: Bankruptcy - Loan Shark Murder as Unknown
1999The King of Minami: Permanent Scar as Unknown
1999The King of Minami: System Finance as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: Reverse Inheritance as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: Trans Woman Blues as Unknown
1998Gun Breath A Perfect Night to Die as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: Fallen Women as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: Recollection as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 1 as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 5 as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 2 as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 3 as Unknown
1998The King of Minami: 5 Hour Special Part 4 as Unknown
1997Magnitude: Bridge to Tomorrow as Unknown
1997The King of Minami: Revenge Shot as Unknown
1997The King of Minami: Waiting Woman as Unknown
1997The King of Minami: Insurance Embezzler as Unknown
1997The King of Minami: Con Man Exterminator as Unknown
1996The King of Minami: Con Man's Fate as Unknown
1996The King of Minami: Futures Trading Hell as Unknown
1995Godzilla vs. Destoroyah as Yukari Yamane
1995The King of Minami: City of Desire as Unknown
1995The King of Minami: The Special Movie as Ryoko
1992Horror House Vol.1: Grudge Ghost Classroom as Unknown
1992悪女 (11 Episodes) as Konno Ryoko
1990Balloon as Unknown
1989Wakko no kin medaru (151 Episodes) as Unknown
1988Break Out as Miku Sawano
1987Tokyo Blackout as Matsunaga Mieko
1982Drifter's Christmas Presents (10 Episodes) as Unknown
1978The Unfettered Shogun (13 Episodes) as Okyo