Yoko Shimada

Yōko Shimada (島田 陽子, Shimada Yōko, born 17 May 1953, Kumamoto) is a Japanese actress. She is best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of "Mariko" in the 1980 miniseries Shōgun.

She was the only female member of Shōgun's massive cast of Japanese actors shown speaking English, for which she relied on a dialogue coach, as she was not fluent in the language at the time. Her English improved greatly during the production, however, allowing her to work in a few English language films during the 1980s and 1990s. In 1981, she won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series-Drama and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy award for her work on Shōgun

Filmography

• Jûrokusai (1960)
• Kôkan nikki (1963) - Emi
• Hajimete no Tabi (1972)
• Castle of Sand (1974) - Reiko
• Wagahai wa Neko de Aru (1975) - Yukie
• Inugamike no Ichizoku (1976) - Tamayo Nonomiya
• Torakku Yarō: Bōkyō Ichibanboshi (1976)
• Yatsuhaka-mura (1977) - Yôzô's Wife (uncredited)
• Hakuchū no Shikaku (1979) - Ayaka
• Ōgon no Inu (1979) - Reiko Kitamori
• Shōgun (1980, theatrical/home video edit of mini-series)
• Little Champion (1981) - Miki Tsuwa
• Kyūkei no Kōya (1981, made for television)
• Hanazono no Meikyū (1988) - Tae Akimoto
• Kaze, surôdaun (1991)
• Ringu ringu ringu: Namida no chanpion beruto (1993) - Devil naomi
• The Hunted (1995) - Mieko Takeda
• Crying Freeman (1995) - Lady Hanada
• The Sino-Dutch War 1661 (2002) - Gong's Mother
• Shinku (2005)
• Dear heart: Furuete nemure (2009)
• Shimada Yōko ni Aitai (2010) - Yôko Shimada
• Secret Affair also known as Yōko Shimada – Assignation [TEK-032](2011)
• Faithless Love [TEK-034] (2011)
• Hei no nakano kamisama (2016)
• Kanon (2016)

Television

• Kamen Rider (1971) - Hiromi Nohara
• Shiroi Kyotō (1978)
• Shōgun (1980) - Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
• Chicago Story (1982) - Wing
• Sanga Moyu (1984)
• Oka no Ue no Himawari (1993)

External links

• Yōko Shimada on IMDb