Shima Iwashita
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
Movie
Harakiri
as Miho Tsugumo
1962
Movie
An Autumn Afternoon
as Michiko Hirayama
1962
Movie
Late Autumn
as Uketuske
1960
Movie
Sword of the Beast
as Taka
1965
Movie
Double Suicide
as Koharu / Osan
1969
Movie
Assassination
as Oren
1964
Movie
Silence
as Kiku
1971
Movie
Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
as Shrewish Wife
1975
Movie
The Demon
as Oume
1978
Movie
Himiko
as Himiko
1974
TV
Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Masae Mihara（三原 雅恵）
2012
Movie
Red Lion
as Tomi
1969
Movie
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as Uta Kiryûin
1982
Movie
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as Chiyo
1978
Movie
Ballad of Orin
as Orin
1977
Movie
Gonza the Spearman
as Osai
1986
Movie
Captive's Island
as Aya, Daigoku's daughter
1966
Movie
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
as Abandoned woman bearing a daughter
1993
Movie
Heat Wave
as Yoshi
1991
Movie
Killers on Parade
as Mana Arisaka
1961
Movie
A Legend or Was It?
as Kieko Sonobe
1963
Movie
The Petrified Forest
1973
Movie
The River Fuefuki
as Ume - Daughter
1960
Movie
Sharaku
as Okan
1995