18
Born · May 17, 1953
Died · July 25, 2022 (69 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Kumamoto, 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.
Sumiko
7.0
2016
0.0
2016
0.0
2011
10.0
2011
0.0
2010
0.0
2009
Dr. Tanaka
5.6
2005
0.0
2003
Ivy
3.5
2003
Matsu Tagawa
6.0
2001
0.0
1995
Lady Hanada
6.4
1995
Mieko
5.8
1995
0.0
1993
Yabe Fumi · (12 episodes)
0.0
1993
0.0
1991
0.0
1991
Kaneuri Kichiji
0.0
1990
Tae Akimoto
5.3
1988
6.0
1987
(1 episode)
0.0
1981
Miki
0.0
1981
Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko · (5 episodes)
7.7
1980
Self · (1 episode)
7.7
1980
7.0
1979
Reiko Kitamori
4.5
1979
Mrs. Kesselbach
0.0
1979
Hosokawa Gracia · (51 episodes)
0.0
1978
Tamayo Nonomiya
6.9
1976
7.0
1976
Etsuko / Noriko
0.0
1975
0.0
1975
Yukie
3.3
1975
Reiko Takagi
7.3
1974
0.0
1974
Hiromi Nohara
7.3
1971
8.0
1969
5.0
1969