Shima Iwashita

Known for ActingBorn 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.Read more

Movies & web series

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations

Takeda Shingen

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night

Forbidden Affair

Onihei's Detective Records

Masamune Shogun

Toire no kamisama

Law of the Outlaw

The Radish and the Carrot

The Donkey Comes on a Tank

Glory on the Summit

Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke

Harakiri

Hanayome wa Yakudoshi!

I Don't Have a Grave!

Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2

Sketchbook of Early Spring

Monument to Holy Service

Through Days and Months

The Day the Sun Rose

Rebellion of Japan

Out Burn

Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon

An Autumn Afternoon

Yakuza Ladies: Decision

Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict

Takeshi: Childhood Days

Epitaph to My Love

Late Autumn

Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell

The River Fuefuki

Portrait of Chieko

The Kii River

Sword of the Beast

Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky

Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble

Sharaku

Silence

Yakuza Ladies Revisited

Ballad of Orin

Gonza the Spearman

No More God, No More Love

Samurai from Nowhere

Suspicion

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

Kusa Moeru

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

Assassination