Acting
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.
Shōgun
1980 · TV
Labyrinth Romanesque
1988 · Movie
Ōgon no Hibi
1978 · TV
Tuesday Suspense Theater
1981 · TV
Crying Freeman
1995 · Movie
The Hunted
1995 · Movie
Fushoku no kōzō
1977 · TV
The Castle of Sand
1974 · Movie
The Inugami Family
1976 · Movie
Sunflower on the Hill
1993 · TV
I Am a Cat
1975 · Movie
Dead Angle
1979 · Movie
The Deep Red
2005 · Movie
Dog of Fortune
1979 · Movie
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
1976 · Movie
My Champion
1981 · Movie
Undiscovered Tomb
2003 · Movie
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974 · Movie
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
1979 · Movie
Go Go Kamen Rider
1971 · Movie
Dohten
1991 · Movie
Shogun
1980 · Movie
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
2001 · Movie
Kanon
2016 · Movie
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990 · Movie
Sea of Whitetail
1990 · Movie
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
1993 · Movie
The Faithless Love
2011 · Movie
Kyukei no Koya
1975 · Movie
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
1987 · Movie
Kazu no Fūkei
1991 · Movie
Dear Heart
2009 · Movie
Visitor After Dark
1975 · Movie
I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
2010 · Movie
Brothers Serving Time
1969 · Movie
First Love
1972 · Movie
River Without a Bridge
1969 · Movie
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
1995 · Movie
Slow Down
1991 · Movie
Mikkai
2011 · Movie
God in Jail
2016 · Movie
Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
2000 · Movie
Black Corridor
2004 · Movie
Bridge
· Movie
