Yoko Shimada
Acting
Born 1953-05-17
Died 2022-07-25
Kumamoto, Japan
47 credits
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Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced Japanese history to foreign audiences. She won the Golden Globe For Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama category and was nominated for a Prime-time Emmy Award for her work on the serial in 1981. Shimada, who spoke some English for the serial, had been acting for years prior to Shogun however. She began learning ballet since age three and wanted to become a ballerina until her high high school days. Her family had moved to Tokyo when she was eight. She obtained an agent and began acting while in junior high school. The TV serial Zoku Hyouten made her famous beginning 1970. She released a nude photo book, called Kir Royal, in 1992. She was 39 and the photo book became a bestseller shifting half a million copies. At 57 she starred in an 'AV' pornography video called Mikkai in 2011. This was a tribute to her body even at that age. Shimada has a reservation for a space burial.
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Filmography
Acting
24 credits
Shōgun
Crying Freeman
Labyrinth Romanesque
The Hunted
Ōgon no Hibi
Fushoku no kōzō
The Castle of Sand
Sunflower on the Hill
I Am a Cat
Shogun
The Inugami Family
My Champion
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
Undiscovered Tomb
Kanon
Go Go Kamen Rider
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Dog of Fortune
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
The Deep Red
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
The Faithless Love
Mikkai
Visitor After Dark
Other credits
23 credits
Tuesday Suspense Theater
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
Dead Angle
Brothers Serving Time
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Dear Heart
The Making of Shōgun
I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
Kyukei no Koya
氷点
Dohten
Slow Down
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
Kazu no Fūkei
First Love
River Without a Bridge
God in Jail
Sea of Whitetail
Bridge
Black Corridor
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