Yoko Shimada
ActingKumamoto 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
Mikkai
Self
The Castle of Sand
Reiko Takagi
The Inugami Family
Tamayo Nonomiya
Crying Freeman
Lady Hanada
Labyrinth Romanesque
Tae Akimoto
Dead Angle
Dog of Fortune
Reiko Kitamori
The Hunted
Mieko
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Undiscovered Tomb
Ivy
Filmography — Acting
Mikkai
Self
The Castle of Sand
Reiko Takagi
The Inugami Family
Tamayo Nonomiya
Crying Freeman
Lady Hanada
Labyrinth Romanesque
Tae Akimoto
Dead Angle
Dog of Fortune
Reiko Kitamori
The Hunted
Mieko
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Undiscovered Tomb
Ivy
The Deep Red
Dr. Tanaka
I Am a Cat
Yukie
Kanon
Sumiko
Dohten
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Dear Heart
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Mrs. Kesselbach
Go Go Kamen Rider
Hiromi Nohara
First Love
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Kaneuri Kichiji
Kyukei no Koya
My Champion
Miki
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
Matsu Tagawa
Visitor After Dark
Etsuko / Noriko
Brothers Serving Time
Slow Down
River Without a Bridge
Kazu no Fūkei
Sea of Whitetail
I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
God in Jail
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
The Making of Shōgun
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
Kyoko
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
The Faithless Love
Self
Black Corridor
