
Shima Iwashita
Biography
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.
Acting (110 movies)

I Don't Have a Grave!
1998

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
1993

Harakiri
1962

Kono ni uruwashi
1962

Double Suicide
1969

A Roaring Trade
1962

Sword of the Beast
1965

その人は炎のように
1972

An Autumn Afternoon
1962

Swift Current
1967

Silence
1971

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978

Himiko
1974

Assassination
1964

Samurai from Nowhere
1964

Red Lion
1969

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
1975

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1988

Heat Wave
1991

Killers on Parade
1961

Youth in Fury
1960

The Demon
1978

A Legend or Was It?
1963

The Petrified Forest
1973

Ballad of Orin
1977

The Shadow Within
1970

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970

Moonlight Serenade
1997

The River Fuefuki
1960

San'nin musume kanpai!
1962

Gonza the Spearman
1986

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
1962

Records of loyal vassals
1962

Shadow of Deception
1971

The Radish and the Carrot
1965

Rebellion of Japan
1967

Fireflies in the North
1984

The Empty Table
1985

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1982

Monument to Holy Service
1978

Suspicion
1982

Spy Sorge
2003

Moment of Demon
1985

MacArthur's Children
1984

Sharaku
1995

Island of the Evil Spirits
1981

Captive's Island
1966

Yakuza Ladies
1986

The Scarlet Camellia
1964

Onihei's Detective Records
1995

No More God, No More Love
1985

Twin Sisters of Kyoto
1963

Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
1995

Lost in Time
1996

The Women of Osaka Castle
1983

Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
2010

Snow Country
1965

Epitaph to My Love
1961

Sing, Young People!
1963

Out Burn
2014

Yakuza Ladies: Decision
1998

Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
1996

Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
1990

Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
1994

Yakuza Ladies Revisited
1991

Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
1993

Lullaby of Death
1982

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974

I Lived, But...
1983

Portrait of Chieko
1967

The Hidden Profile
1963

Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
2007

Destroyer Yukikaze
1964

The Kii River
1966

Glory on the Summit
1962

After the Wind Has Gone
1996

Lady with Seven Faces
1969

Cherry Blossoms
1989

Mahiru no wana
1960

Fun on the Run
1970

Late Autumn
1960

Forbidden Affair
1970

The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964

The Irresponsible Fool
1964

Double Wedding
1963

Takeshi: Childhood Days
1990

A Woman Called En
1971

Taira no Kiyomori
1992

Minamoto Yoshitsune
1990

Clouds at Sunset
1967

Law of the Outlaw
1971

Warm Current
1966

To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
1964

August Moon
1962

マルゴォの杯
1988

A Good Man, A Good Day
1961

Pachinko
1962

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
1974

Takeda Shingen
1991

Big, Big Fellow
1969
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