Yoko Shimada
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
ActingBirthday
May 17, 1953Deathday
July 25, 2022Gender
FemaleKnown Movie Credits
30Place of birth
Kumamoto, JapanAlso known as
Yôko Shimada , 島田陽子, 島田洋子Cast credits
The Hunted
MiekoThe Castle of Sand
Reiko TakagiI Am a Cat
YukieThe Deep Red
Dr. TanakaDog of Fortune
Reiko KitamoriDead Angle
Labyrinth Romanesque
Tae AkimotoKanon
SumikoCrying Freeman
Lady HanadaVisitor After Dark
Etsuko / NorikoThe Inugamis
Tamayo NonomiyaTruck Rascals III: Homesick Ichibanboshi
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Kaneuri KichijiMy Champion
MikiThe Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Mikkai
The Faithless Love
Undiscovered Tomb
IvyGod in Jail
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears