Acting
Yoko 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.
Filmography
Kanon
Film · 2016
God in Jail
Film · 2016
The Faithless Love
Film · 2011
Mikkai
Film · 2011
I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
Film · 2010
Dear Heart
Film · 2009
The Deep Red
Film · 2005
Black Corridor
Film · 2004
The Making of Shōgun
Film · 2003
Undiscovered Tomb
Film · 2003
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
Film · 2001
Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
Film · 2000
The Hunted
Film · 1995
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
Film · 1995
Crying Freeman
Film · 1995
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
Film · 1993
Sunflower on the Hill
Series · 1993
Dohten
Film · 1991
Slow Down
Film · 1991
Kazu no Fūkei
Film · 1991
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Film · 1990
Sea of Whitetail
Film · 1990
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
Film · 1989
氷点
Series · 1989
Labyrinth Romanesque
Film · 1988
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Film · 1987
My Champion
Film · 1981
Tuesday Suspense Theater
Series · 1981
Shogun
Film · 1980
Shōgun
Series · 1980
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Film · 1979
Dog of Fortune
Film · 1979
Dead Angle
Film · 1979
Ōgon no Hibi
Series · 1978
Fushoku no kōzō
Series · 1977
The Inugami Family
Film · 1976
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Film · 1976
I Am a Cat
Film · 1975
Visitor After Dark
Film · 1975
Kyukei no Koya
Film · 1975
The Castle of Sand
Film · 1974
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Film · 1974
First Love
Film · 1972
Go Go Kamen Rider
Film · 1971
Brothers Serving Time
Film · 1969
River Without a Bridge
Film · 1969
Bridge
Film