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Yoko Shimada
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 oversea…
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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.
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Movies and shows, newest first
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2016
Kanon
Movie Sumiko
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2016
God in Jail
Movie
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2011
The Faithless Love
Movie Self
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2011
Mikkai
Movie Self
- 2010
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2009
Dear Heart
Movie
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2005
The Deep Red
Movie Dr. Tanaka
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2004
Black Corridor
Movie
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2003
The Making of Shōgun
Movie
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2003
Undiscovered Tomb
Movie Ivy
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2001
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
Movie Matsu Tagawa
- 2000
- 1995
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1995
Crying Freeman
Movie Lady Hanada
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1995
The Hunted
Movie Mieko
- 1993
More credits
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1993
Sunflower on the Hill
TV show Yabe Fumi
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1991
Slow Down
Movie
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1991
Kazu no Fūkei
Movie
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1991
Dohten
Movie
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1990
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Movie Kaneuri Kichiji
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1990
Sea of Whitetail
Movie
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1989
氷点
TV show
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1989
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
Movie Kyoko
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1988
Labyrinth Romanesque
Movie Tae Akimoto
- 1987
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1981
Tuesday Suspense Theater
TV show
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1981
My Champion
Movie Miki
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1980
Shogun
Movie Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
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1980
Shōgun
TV show Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
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1979
Dead Angle
Movie
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1979
Dog of Fortune
Movie Reiko Kitamori
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1979
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Movie Mrs. Kesselbach
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1978
Ōgon no Hibi
TV show Hosokawa Gracia
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1977
Fushoku no kōzō
TV show Majima Kumiko
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1976
The Inugami Family
Movie Tamayo Nonomiya
- 1976
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1975
Visitor After Dark
Movie Etsuko / Noriko
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1975
Kyukei no Koya
Movie
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1975
I Am a Cat
Movie Yukie
