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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.