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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Harakiri (1962) — Miho Tsugumo
2. An Autumn Afternoon (1962) — Michiko Hirayama
3. Late Autumn (1960) — Uketuske
4. Sword of the Beast (1965) — Taka
5. Double Suicide (1969) — Koharu / Osan
6. Silence (1971) — Kiku
7. Assassination (1964) — Oren
8. Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees (1975) — Shrewish Wife
9. The Demon (1978) — Oume
10. Himiko (1974) — Himiko
11. Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon (2012) — Masae Mihara（三原 雅恵）
12. Red Lion (1969) — Tomi
13. Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather (1982) — Uta Kiryûin
14. Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978) — Chiyo
15. Ballad of Orin (1977) — Orin
16. Gonza the Spearman (1986) — Osai
17. Captive's Island (1966) — Aya, Daigoku's daughter
18. A Legend or Was It? (1963) — Kieko Sonobe
19. Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993) — Abandoned woman bearing a daughter
20. Heat Wave (1991) — Yoshi
21. Killers on Parade (1961) — Mana Arisaka
22. The Petrified Forest (1973)
23. The River Fuefuki (1960) — Ume - Daughter
24. Sharaku (1995) — Okan
25. Yakuza Ladies (1986) — Tamaki Awazu
26. Youth in Fury (1960) — Yoko Katsura
27. The Shadow Within (1970) — Yasuko Koiso
28. The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan (1970) — Michitose
29. Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963) — Chieko / Naeko
30. Takeshi: Childhood Days (1990) — Shizue Kazama (Shinji's mother)
31. Samurai from Nowhere (1964) — Tae
32. MacArthur's Children (1984) — Tome Anabuki
33. Suspicion (1982) — Ritsuko Sahara
34. Moment of Demon (1985) — Ryoko / Fukashi's mother
35. I Lived, But... (1983) — Self
36. Spy Sorge (2003) — Mrs. Konoe
37. Fireflies in the North (1984) — Yu Nakamura
38. Masamune Shogun (1987)
39. Moonlight Serenade (1997) — Fuji Onda
40. Island of the Evil Spirits (1981) — Tomoe Goryōnin / Fubuki