Name
Yoko Shimada
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1953-05-17
Deathday
2022-07-25 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Kumamoto, Japan
Biography
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.
Known For
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A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time h...
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Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to dea...
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Paul Racine, a high-powered American business executive in Japan, is catapulted into a maz...
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When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on...
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Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops betwee...
- 2001 The Sino-Dutch War 1661 as Matsu Tagawa
- 1995 The Hunted as Mieko
- 1974 The Castle of Sand as Reiko Takagi
- 1995 Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
- 1971 Go Go Kamen Rider as Hiromi Nohara
- 1975 I Am a Cat as Yukie
- 2005 The Deep Red as Dr. Tanaka
- 1969 Brothers Serving Time
- 1991 Dohten
- 1979 Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813 as Mrs. Kesselbach
- 1979 Dog of Fortune as Reiko Kitamori
- 1991 Slow Down
- 1969 River Without a Bridge
- 1979 Dead Angle
- 1988 Labyrinth Romanesque as Tae Akimoto
- 2016 Kanon as Sumiko
- 1995 Crying Freeman as Lady Hanada
- 1975 Visitor After Dark as Etsuko / Noriko
- 1976 The Inugami Family as Tamayo Nonomiya
- 1976 Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- 1990 Minamoto Yoshitsune as Kaneuri Kichiji
- 2003 The Making of Shōgun
- 1981 My Champion as Miki
- 1987 The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
- 2011 The Faithless Love as Self
- 2011 Mikkai as Self
- 2003 Undiscovered Tomb as Ivy
- 2016 God in Jail
- 1993 Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
- 2009 Dear Heart
- 1974 Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
- 1975 Kyukei no Koya
- 2010 I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
- 1989 津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道 as Kyoko
- 1972 First Love
- 1991 Kazu no Fūkei
- 1990 Sea of Whitetail
- 2004 Black Corridor
- 2000 Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
- Soon Bridge
- 1980 Shogun as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
- 1978 Ōgon no Hibi ( 51 episodes ) as Hosokawa Gracia
- 1980 Shōgun ( 5 episodes ) as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
- 1981 Tuesday Suspense Theater ( 1 episode )
- 1993 Sunflower on the Hill ( 12 episodes ) as Yabe Fumi
- 1977 Fushoku no kōzō ( 1 episode ) as Majima Kumiko
- 1989 氷点 ( 2 episodes )
