
Shima Iwashita
Born: 1941-01-03
Place of birth: 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.
Filmography

Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
2000

Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
1974

Forbidden Affair
1970

Onihei's Detective Records
1995

Masamune Shogun
1987

Law of the Outlaw
1971

The Radish and the Carrot
1965

The Donkey Comes on a Tank
1964

Glory on the Summit
1962

Toire no kamisama
2011

Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
2010

Harakiri
1962

Hanayome wa Yakudoshi!
2006

I Don't Have a Grave!
1998

Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
1993

Sketchbook of Early Spring
1983

Monument to Holy Service
1978

Through Days and Months
1969