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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.
As actor
Out Burn
Toire no kamisama
Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
Spy Sorge
I Don't Have a Grave!
Yakuza Ladies: Decision
Moonlight Serenade
Lost in Time
Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble
After the Wind Has Gone
Sharaku
Onihei's Detective Records
Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
Taira no Kiyomori
Heat Wave
Yakuza Ladies Revisited
Takeda Shingen
Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Cherry Blossoms
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
マルゴォの杯
My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?!
Gonza the Spearman
Yakuza Ladies