Shima Iwashita
Birthday: 1941-01-03
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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.
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I Don't Have a Grave!
An actress visits a university hospital for research and mistakenly believes she has only six months...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a ...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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Double Suicide
Successful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the str...
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Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve...
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An Autumn Afternoon
Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she sh...
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Silence
Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Chr...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang ...
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Himiko
The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view o...
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Assassination
Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking c...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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Red Lion
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchante...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tok...
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Heat Wave
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi househo...
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Killers on Parade
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews whe...
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Youth in Fury
A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless m...
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The Demon
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th...
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A Legend or Was It?
A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the ...
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The Petrified Forest
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood frie...
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Ballad of Orin
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos...
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The Shadow Within
When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son in...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stif...
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Moonlight Serenade
After the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his brother af...
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The River Fuefuki
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poo...
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Gonza the Spearman
The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokugawa Period, a time in which appear...
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Records of loyal vassals
In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of ...
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Shadow of Deception
It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She no...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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Rebellion of Japan
Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisal...
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Fireflies in the North
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde...
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The Empty Table
One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist k...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties confl...
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Monument to Holy Service
A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon....
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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Spy Sorge
A foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the outb...
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Moment of Demon
Filled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds a ne...
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MacArthur's Children
In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...
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Sharaku
A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publi...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
Famous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he meets...
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Captive's Island
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was ...
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Yakuza Ladies
When her crime boss husband is sent to prison, a woman assumes control of one of the most powerful g...
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The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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Onihei's Detective Records
A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill....
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No More God, No More Love
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as ...
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My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?!
In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, S...
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Man on a False Flight
The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possessi...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin...
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Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan....
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Lost in Time
A story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist Yae,...
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The Women of Osaka Castle
A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary ...
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the As...
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Snow Country
This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha ...
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Enraptured
A promising dancer asks her professor to write a libretto for a Nō play. He then introduces her to a...
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Epitaph to My Love
Ishihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an accident, Ch...
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Sing, Young People!
A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of the...
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Out Burn
Eiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized Crime ...
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate a...
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Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
The wife of a recently deceased yakuza boss is caught in a conflict between the candidates for his s...
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Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common p...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a suc...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fre...
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Lullaby of Death
Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seek...
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Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
Three assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder....
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I Lived, But...
An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of f...
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Portrait of Chieko
Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil p...
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meet...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook'...
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The Kii River
Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and econom...
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Glory on the Summit
A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of...
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Lady with Seven Faces
A lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she sets ...
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Mahiru no wana
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amids...
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Late Autumn
A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particular...
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Forbidden Affair
Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives wa...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his ...
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The Irresponsible Fool
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate misch...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the ...
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A Woman Called En
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated b...
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Taira no Kiyomori
The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the b...
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...
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Clouds at Sunset
A Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start ove...
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Law of the Outlaw
Takei Goro leaves the gang to quit the yakuza world, but the gang won't allow it and relentlessly pu...
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor 2
Based on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military dog s...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his sur...
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Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, du...
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Takeda Shingen
During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powe...
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Big, Big Fellow
The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter...
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The Politicians
Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal m...
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Ohana han
This is a film adaptation of a popular NHK drama that depicts a strong-willed woman, Hana, who lives...
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Toire no kamisama
Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which i...
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