Shima Iwashita

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1941-01-03 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

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 Shi...

Acting

1993

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

as Abandoned woman bearing a daughter

1962

Harakiri

as Miho Tsugumo

1969

Double Suicide

as Koharu / Osan

1962

An Autumn Afternoon

as Michiko Hirayama

1971

Silence

as Kiku

1974

Himiko

as Himiko

1964

1969

Red Lion

as Tomi

1991

Heat Wave

as Yoshi

1960

Youth in Fury

as Yoko Katsura

1961

Killers on Parade

as Mana Arisaka

1978

The Demon

as Oume

1963

A Legend, or Was It?

as Kieko Sonobe

1977

1970

The Shadow Within

as Yasuko Koiso

1997

Moonlight Serenade

as Fuji Onda

1960

The River Fuefuki

as Ume - Daughter

1971

Shadow of Deception

as Minako Nishida

1967

Rebellion of Japan

as Suzuko Kanze

1984

1985

The Empty Table

as Kiwa Nakahara

1982

Suspicion

as Ritsuko Sahara

2003

Spy Sorge

as Mrs. Konoe

1985

Moment of Demon

as Ryoko / Fukashi's mother

1984

MacArthur's Children

as Tome Anabuki

1995

Sharaku

as Okan

1981

Island of the Evil Spirits

as Tomoe Goryōnin / Fubuki

1966

Captive's Island

as Aya, Daigoku's daughter

1986

Yakuza Ladies

as Tamaki Awazu

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

as Chieko / Naeko

1995

1996

Lost in Time

as Kiyoko Torigai

1965

Snow Country

as Komako

1961

Epitaph to My Love

as Chie Higashi

1963

Sing, Young People

as Noriko Atsugi

2014

Out Burn

as Eirei Ryu

1991

Yakuza Ladies Revisited

as Kanae Fujinami

1993

1982

1983

1967

Portrait of Chieko

as Chieko Takamura

1964

Destroyer Yukikaze

as Yukiko Tejima

1966

The Kii River

as Shintani Fumio, Hana's daughter

1962

Glory on the Summit

as Misa Takahashi

1989

Cherry Blossoms

as Kikuno Tatsumura

1960

1970

1960

Late Autumn

as Uketuske

1963

Double Wedding

as Noriko Kosaka

1990

Takeshi: Childhood Days

as Shizue Kazama (Shinji's mother)

1971

A Woman Called En

as En Nonaka

1990

Minamoto Yoshitsune

as Taira no Tokiko

1966

Warm Current

as Keiko Shima

1964

1962

August Moon

as Kyoko Mishima

1969

Big, Big Fellow

as Shizuko Yamaguchi

1983

The Politicians

as Ayako Teranishi

1961

1966

Ohana han

as Hana Asao

1966

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