Shima Iwashita
Acting · Born 1941-01-03 · age 85 · Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Shima Shinoda, better known as Shima Iwashita (born January 3, 1941, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She was married to film director Shinoda Masahiro. She won the award for best actress at the 2nd Hochi Film Award for Ballad of Orin. In junior high school, she aspired to become a psychiatrist, but gave up on that dream when she was 16-17 years old and suffered from childhood rheumatism and was hospitalized for a long time. To divert her energy , she appeared in the 1958 NHK drama Bus Street Back. This was the beginning of her acting career. She made her film debut two years later in 1960. In 1999, she launched her brand "Kimono Shima" with kimono manufacturer Kyoto Marubeni, and made her debut as a kimono designer. In 2004, she was awarded the Purple Ribbon Medal. In 2012 , she was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette.
Titles
Harakiri
An Autumn Afternoon
Late Autumn
Sword of the Beast
Double Suicide
Silence
Assassination
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
The Demon
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
Himiko
Red Lion
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Ballad of Orin
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Gonza the Spearman
Captive's Island
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A Legend or Was It?
Killers on Parade
Heat Wave
The River Fuefuki
The Petrified Forest
Sharaku
Yakuza Ladies
Takeshi: Childhood Days
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Youth in Fury
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
The Shadow Within
Samurai from Nowhere
MacArthur's Children
Suspicion
Moment of Demon
Spy Sorge
Masamune Shogun
Fireflies in the North
Island of the Evil Spirits
Moonlight Serenade
The Scarlet Camellia
Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
Sing, Young People!
Clouds at Sunset
Cherry Blossoms
Epitaph to My Love
Shadow of Deception
The Empty Table
Lullaby of Death
Man on a False Flight
Toire no kamisama
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
Yakuza Ladies Revisited
Lost in Time
Snow Country
Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
The Radish and the Carrot
Onihei's Detective Records
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
The Day the Sun Rose