
Cast
Yoko Shimada
Acting
Cast
Yoko Shimada
Known for
Acting
Born
1953-05-17
From
Kumamoto, Japan
Died
2022-07-25
Also known as Yôko Shimada , 島田洋子, 岛田洋子
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.

The Hunted
as Mieko

Crying Freeman
as Lady Hanada

Labyrinth Romanesque
as Tae Akimoto

Dead Angle

The Castle of Sand
as Reiko Takagi

The Inugami Family
as Tamayo Nonomiya

I Am a Cat
as Yukie

Dog of Fortune
as Reiko Kitamori

Brothers Serving Time

The Deep Red
as Dr. Tanaka

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido

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

The Faithless Love
as Self

Minamoto Yoshitsune
as Kaneuri Kichiji

Go Go Kamen Rider
as Hiromi Nohara

The Sino-Dutch War 1661
as Matsu Tagawa

Kanon
as Sumiko

Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
as Mrs. Kesselbach

Dohten

Dear Heart

Undiscovered Tomb
as Ivy

Kyukei no Koya

Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears

The Making of Shōgun

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

Shogun
as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko

First Love

津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
as Kyoko

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

I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada

Visitor After Dark
as Etsuko / Noriko

Kazu no Fūkei

Slow Down

My Champion
as Miki

Black Corridor

Mikkai
as Self

River Without a Bridge

God in Jail

Sea of Whitetail

Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
