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Yōko Shimada is a Actor Japonaise born on 17 may 1953 at Kumamoto (Japon)
Yōko Shimada (島田 陽子, Shimada Yōko, born May 17, 1953 in Kumamoto, Japan) 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 Yoko 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.
En 1983, la coproduction nippo-américaine Shogun la révèle enfin au public français dans le rôle de Dame Mariko, épouse du samouraï Toda Buntaro, et accessoirement interprète du pilote John Blackthorne, surnommé Anjin-san, rôle tenu par l'acteur américain Richard Chamberlain.
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Yōko Shimada
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En 1982, Yōko Shimada participe à la première et dernière coproduction télévisuelle franco-nippone, Le Kimono rouge (テレビドラマ「ビゴーを知っていますか」) d'Olivier Gérard et Yuji Murakami racontant la vie du peintre caricaturiste Georges Ferdinand Bigot, célèbre au Japon mais quasi inconnu en France, tout comme la mini-série portant sur sa vie.En 1983, la coproduction nippo-américaine Shogun la révèle enfin au public français dans le rôle de Dame Mariko, épouse du samouraï Toda Buntaro, et accessoirement interprète du pilote John Blackthorne, surnommé Anjin-san, rôle tenu par l'acteur américain Richard Chamberlain.
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The Sino-Dutch War 1661 (2001)
, 1h41Directed by Wu Ziniu
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Chiu Man-cheuk, Yōko Shimada
Roles Tagawa Matsu
Rating63%
The movie is set in the mid-17th century, when most of China is conquered by the Manchu-led Qing dynasty after the collapse of the Ming dynasty. Ming remnants have fled south and established a Southern Ming regime based in Fujian, with the Longwu Emperor as their figurehead monarch. The Qing armies are closing in on Fujian and the southern areas independent of their control.
Crying Freeman (1995)
, 1h42Directed by Christophe Gans
Origin Canada
Genres Thriller, Martial arts, Action, Crime, Martial arts
Themes Mafia films, Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Yakuza films, Gangster films
Actors Marc Dacascos, Julie Condra, Tchéky Karyo, Byron Mann, Yōko Shimada, Masaya Katō
Roles Lady Hanada
Rating63%
One morning, while painting the landscape on a hill in San Francisco, California, a young woman named Emu O'Hara witnesses the murder of a Japanese Yakuza member. She notices that while the assassin stands emotionless in front of her, his eyes begin to shed tears. The assassin introduces himself to Emu as "Yo".
The Hunted (1995)
, 1h51Directed by J. F. Lawton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Christophe Lambert, John Lone, Joan Chen, Yoshio Harada, Yōko Shimada, Masumi Okada
Roles Mieko
Rating58%
Paul Racine (Christopher Lambert), a computer-chip executive from New York, is on one of his many business trips to Nagoya. He meets a beautiful woman named Kirina (Joan Chen) in the hotel lounge, and ends up having a one-night stand with her. When he attempts to further the relationship, Kirina implies that she has no future and thanks him for a wonderful night of pleasure and love. Dejected and somewhat confused, Paul reluctantly leaves her to be alone as she requests.
Shōgun (miniseries) (1980)
, 9h7Directed by Jerry London
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yōko Shimada, Damien Thomas, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern
Roles Lady Toda Mariko
Rating81%
After his Dutch trading ship Erasmus and its surviving crew is blown ashore by a violent storm at Injiro on the east coast of Japan, Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, the ship's English navigator, is taken prisoner by samurai warriors. When he is later temporarily released, he must juggle his self-identity as an Englishman associated with other Europeans in Japan, namely Portuguese traders and Jesuit priests, with the alien Japanese culture into which he has been thrust and now must adapt to in order to survive. Being an Englishman, Blackthorne is at both religious and political odds with his enemy, the Portuguese, and the Catholic Church's Jesuit order. The Catholic foothold in Japan puts Blackthorne, a Protestant and therefore a heretic, at a political disadvantage. But this same situation also brings him to the attention of the influential Lord Toranaga, who mistrusts this foreign religion now spreading in Japan. He is competing with other samurai warlords of similar high-born rank, among them Catholic converts, for the very powerful position of Shōgun, the military governor of Japan.
The Inugamis (1976)
Directed by Kon Ichikawa
Genres Horror
Actors Yōko Shimada, Kyōko Kishida, Mitsuko Kusabue, Mieko Takamine, Eitarō Ozawa, Rentarō Mikuni
Roles Tamayo Nonomiya
Rating71%
Lorsqu'un magnat décède, il laisse inopinément la fortune familiale à l'outsider Tamayo à la condition qu'elle épouse l'un des petits-fils, opposant le sang contre le sang.
The Castle of Sand (1974)
, 2h23Directed by Yoshitarō Nomura
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Tetsurō Tanba, Gō Katō, Kensaku Morita, Shin Saburi, Yōko Shimada, Ken Ogata
Roles Reiko Takagi
Rating72%
Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this" and "Kameda doesn't change."