Yōko 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
Credits
- 2016 · Kanon as Sumiko
- 2016 · God in Jail as
- 2011 · The Faithless Love as
- 2011 · Mikkai as
- 2010 · 島田陽子に逢いたい as
- 2009 · Dear Heart as
- 2005 · The Deep Red as Dr. Tanaka
- 2003 · The Making of Shōgun as
- 2003 · Undiscovered Tomb as Ivy
- 2001 · The Sino-Dutch War 1661 as
- 1995 · Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case as
- 1995 · Crying Freeman as Lady Hanada
- 1995 · The Hunted as Mieko
- 1993 · Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears as
- 1993 · Sunflower on the Hill as Yabe Fumi
- 1991 · Slow Down as
- 1991 · Dohten as
- 1990 · Minamoto Yoshitsune as Kaneuri Kichiji
- 1988 · Labyrinth Romanesque as Tae Akimoto
- 1987 · The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma as
- 1981 · Tuesday Suspense Theater as
- 1981 · My Champion as Miki
- 1980 · Shōgun as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
- 1980 · Shōgun as Self
- 1979 · Dead Angle as
- 1979 · Dog of Fortune as Reiko Kitamori
- 1979 · Lupin the Thief--Enigma of the 813 as ケセルバッハ夫人
- 1978 · Ōgon no Hibi as Hosokawa Gracia
- 1976 · The Inugamis as Tamayo Nonomiya
- 1976 · Truckster Goes to Hokkaido as
- 1975 · Visitor After Dark as Etsuko / Noriko
- 1975 · Kyukei no Koya as
- 1975 · I Am a Cat as Yukie
- 1974 · The Castle of Sand as Reiko Takagi
- 1974 · Nagare no fu dai ichibu dōran dai ni bu yoake sakuhin jōhō as
- 1971 · Go Go Kamen Rider as Hiromi Nohara
- 1969 · Brothers Serving Time as
- 1969 · River Without a Bridge as