Shima Iwashita
Shima Shinoda, better known as Shima Iwashita (born January 3, 1941, in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She is married to film director Shinoda Masahiro. She won the award for best actress at the 2nd Hochi Film Award for Ballad of Orin. Description above from the Wikipedia article Shima Shinoda, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Harakiri
as Miho TsugumoDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi....
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An Autumn Afternoon
as Michiko HirayamaShuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that...
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Late Autumn
as UketuskeA woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry,...
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The Demon
as Oume, Sokichi's wifeWhen Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of...
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Yakuza Ladies
as Tamaki AwazuWhile her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as Uta KiryûinOnimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties...
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Himiko
as HimikoThe myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern...
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Suspicion
as Ritsuko SaharaA car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the...
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Cherry Blossoms
as Kikuno TatsumuraA story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...
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Sword of the Beast
as TakaLegendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the...
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Red Lion
as TomiJapan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows,...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as ChiyoKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited: Love is Hell
as uncreditedThe seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She...
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Ballad of Orin
as OrinA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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Heat Wave
as YoshiRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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A Legend, or Was It?
as Kieko SonobeA Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry...
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Moment of Demon
as Ryoko / Fukashi's motherFilled with guilt over his forbidden desires, a young man leaves home and his studies. He finds...
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Fireflies in the North
as Yu NakamuraSet in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited
as Kanae FujinamiThe wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a...
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Double Suicide
as Koharu and OsanSuccessful and married with children, paper-mill owner Jihei knows better than to contradict the...
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Shadow of Deception
as Minako NishidaIt was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband....
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Silence
as KikuTwo Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread...
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Akanezora Beyond the Crimson Sky
as OshinoA young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
as uncreditedSabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when...
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Clouds at Sunset
as uncreditedA Japanese soldier deserts his position and travels to a small town on the Sea of Japan to start...
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Moonlight Serenade
as Fuji OndaAfter the 1995 Kobe earthquake, a writer remembers travelling with his family to bury his...
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Yakuza Ladies: Blood Ties
as Kiwa DomotoTurbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.
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The Irresponsible Fool
as uncreditedPicked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate...
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Gonza the Spearman
as OsaiThe tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which...
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The Shadow Within
as Yasuko KoisoWhen a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young...
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Monument to Holy Service
as uncreditedA rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.
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Sharaku
as OkanA crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited 5
as uncreditedThe wife of a recently deceased yakuza boss is caught in a conflict between the candidates for...
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A Good Man, A Good Day
as uncreditedThe university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his...
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Island of the Evil Spirits
as Tomoe Goryōnin / FubukiFamous detective Kosuke Kindaichi follows a dying man's words to an enigmatic island, where he...
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No More God, No More Love
as uncreditedReleased after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength...
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The Radish and the Carrot
as uncreditedOne day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled...
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Spy Sorge
as Mrs. KonoeA foreign spy using the Sorge alias is assigned to Tokyo the capital of Japan just prior to the...
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Twin Sisters of Kyoto
as Chieko / NaekoIn this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a...
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Assassination
as Oren, Kiyokawa's sweetheartAssassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay,...
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision
as uncreditedKasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family...
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Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle
as Fuyu SegamiA Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a...
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Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2
as Atsumi NogiRecently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
as Abandoned woman bearing a daughterA noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target...
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The Petrified Forest
as uncreditedFollows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood...
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Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
as uncreditedFrom his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as...
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Forbidden Affair
as uncreditedRyô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student...
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Killers on Parade
as Mana ArisakaA vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews...
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A Woman Called En
as En NonakaSet at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison,...
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The Kii River
as Shintani Fumio, Hana's daughterEpic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and...
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Portrait of Chieko
as Chieko TakamuraTakamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an...
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Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
as Shrewish WifeA mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an...
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The River Fuefuki
as Ume - DaughterIn a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very...
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Sing, Young People
as Noriko AtsugiA story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of...
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MacArthur's Children
as Tome AnabukiIn this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village...
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Lullaby of Death
as uncreditedFollowing her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them.
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Samurai from Nowhere
as TaeMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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Takeshi: Childhood Days
as Shizue Kazama (Shinji's mother)A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is...
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The Scarlet Camellia
as OshinoA young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because...
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The Empty Table
as Kiwa NakaharaOne year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a...
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Zoku Haikei Tenno Heika Sama
as Female teacherBased on Muneta Hiroshi's military novel. The main character, Yamaguchi Zensuke, is a military...
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Epitaph to My Love
as Chie HigashiIshihara Kiyoshi plans to marry the woman he loves, Chiee, a coffee shop girl. After an...
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Mahiru no wana
as YoshieOn his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her...
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Destroyer Yukikaze
as Yukiko TejimaYutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a...
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Captive's Island
as Aya, Daigoku's daughterSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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Chushingura〜Sono Otoko, Oishi Kuranosuke
as Riku ŌishiIn the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of...
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I Lived, But...
as SelfAn extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination...
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Rebellion of Japan
as Suzuko KanzeSuzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist...
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Glory on the Summit
as Misa TakahashiA treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as MichitoseAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...
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Out Burn
as Eirei RyuEiko Yagami (Ryoko Yonekura) is a "Marubo", a unit of Ueno Central Police Station's Organized...
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Youth in Fury
as Yoko KatsuraA reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a...
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Minamoto Yoshitsune
as Taira no TokikoOne evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo...
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Lost in Time
as Kiyoko TorigaiA story of friendship between two women, Yae and Kiyoko. Their friendship is tested when artist...
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Professional Killers – Assignment by Night
as OchiyoThree assassins take on a band of thieves who specialize in murder.
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Snow Country
as KomakoThis movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of...
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Fun on the Run
as ReikoComedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall.
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The Hidden Profile
as uncreditedBased on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
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Lady with Seven Faces
as YumikoA lovely female thief, and disguise artist, has a great passion for her next big job which she...
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Taira no Kiyomori
as uncreditedThe tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into...
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Records of loyal vassals
as OshimaIn the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death...
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Onihei's Detective Records
as uncreditedA criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.
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Doctor-X: Surgeon Michiko Daimon
as Masae Mihara（三原 雅恵）Daimon Michiko is a 37-year-old freelance surgeon who is part of a questionable “doctor...
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Kusa Moeru
as Hōjō MasakoThe story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.
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Masamune Shogun
as uncreditedBroadcast TV drama NHK broadcast on January 4 to December 13, 1987 (Showa 62). In the...
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Devil's Kiss
as uncreditedMisao is studying to be a manga artist, Mariko is a university student but getting money by...
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Aoi: Tokugawa Three Generations
as O-Go [Hidetada's wife]The 39th NHK Taiga Drama is Aoi Tokugawa Sandai. It is James Miki's dynamic and colorful tale of...
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