
Yoko Shimada
Known for ActingBorn 1953-05-17Died 2022-07-25Kumamoto, Japan
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.Read more
Movies & web series
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Mikkai
2011 · Movie
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My Champion
1981 · Movie
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Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1976 · Movie
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Dead Angle
1979 · Movie
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Brothers Serving Time
1969 · Movie
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Shōgun
1980 · Series
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River Without a Bridge
1969 · Movie
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Kanon
2016 · Movie
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The Castle of Sand
1974 · Movie
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The Inugami Family
1976 · Movie
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The Sino-Dutch War 1661
2001 · Movie
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Crying Freeman
1995 · Movie
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The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
1987 · Movie
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Go Go Kamen Rider
1971 · Movie
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The Hunted
1995 · Movie
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The Deep Red
2005 · Movie
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Dog of Fortune
1979 · Movie
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Labyrinth Romanesque
1988 · Movie
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Undiscovered Tomb
2003 · Movie
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I Am a Cat
1975 · Movie
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Dear Heart
2009 · Movie

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God in Jail
2016 · Movie

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The Faithless Love
2011 · Movie

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I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
2010 · Movie

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Black Corridor
2004 · Movie
The Making of Shōgun
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The Making of Shōgun
2003 · Movie

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Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
2000 · Movie

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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
1995 · Movie

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Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1993 · Movie

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Sunflower on the Hill
1993 · Series

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Dohten
1991 · Movie

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Slow Down
1991 · Movie

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Kazu no Fūkei
1991 · Movie

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Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990 · Movie

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Sea of Whitetail
1990 · Movie
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
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津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
1989 · Movie

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氷点
1989 · Series

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Tuesday Suspense Theater
1981 · Series

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Shogun
1980 · Movie

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Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
1979 · Movie

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Ōgon no Hibi
1978 · Series

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Fushoku no kōzō
1977 · Series

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Visitor After Dark
1975 · Movie

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Kyukei no Koya
1975 · Movie

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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974 · Movie

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First Love
1972 · Movie

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Bridge
Movie