Yoko Shimada

Known for: Acting
Born: May 17, 1953
Died: Jul 25, 2022 (aged 69)
Place of birth: Kumamoto, Japan
Credits: 47

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

Movie6.4

Crying Freeman

1995Movie

Lady Hanada

TV7.6

Shōgun

1980TV

Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

Movie5.7

The Hunted

1995Movie

Mieko

Movie7.3

The Castle of Sand

1974Movie

Reiko Takagi

Movie6.8

The Inugami Family

1976Movie

Tamayo Nonomiya

Movie5.5

The Deep Red

2005Movie

Dr. Tanaka

Filmography

Movie7.0

Kanon

2016Movie

Sumiko

Yoko Shimada

Known for

Crying Freeman

Shōgun

The Hunted

The Castle of Sand

The Inugami Family

The Deep Red

Filmography

Kanon

God in Jail

The Faithless Love

Mikkai

I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada

Dear Heart

The Deep Red

Black Corridor

The Making of Shōgun

Undiscovered Tomb

The Sino-Dutch War 1661

Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko

Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case

Crying Freeman

The Hunted

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears

Sunflower on the Hill

Slow Down

Kazu no Fūkei

Dohten

Minamoto Yoshitsune

Sea of Whitetail

氷点

津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道

Labyrinth Romanesque

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

Tuesday Suspense Theater

My Champion

Shogun

Shōgun

Dead Angle

Dog of Fortune

Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813

Ōgon no Hibi

Fushoku no kōzō

The Inugami Family

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

Visitor After Dark

Kyukei no Koya

I Am a Cat

The Castle of Sand

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn

First Love

Go Go Kamen Rider

Brothers Serving Time

River Without a Bridge

Bridge