Shima Iwashita

Filmography

Shima Iwashita - filmography

Ballad of Orin (1977)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshio Harada, Tomoko Naraoka
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Orin is a blind travelling musician who’s expected to remain celibate. However, when she gets raped her traveling music troupe throws her out for allowing it to happen. Now on her own, she pairs up with an anti-militarist man she meets. Vulnerable, she makes it fairly obvious she’s open to a sexual ..read more »

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Silence on DVD (1971)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the ..read more »

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Double Suicide (1969)
Starring: Kamatari Fujiwara, Tokie Hidari, Shima Iwashita
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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A presentation of an ultimately tragic love affair between a prostitute and a married merchant, based on and played out in the style of an 18th-century Banraku puppet play by Monzaemon Chikamatsu. Winner of the Japanese Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actress.

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Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon on DVD (1962)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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Widower Shuhei Hirayama (Chishu Ryu) gradually comes to realize that his 24 year-old daughter should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life and so prepares to arrange a marriage for her.

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Harakiri (1962)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi's clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself-but they have ..read more »

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Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn on DVD (1960)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband step into the fray suitors ..read more »

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Ozu - Vol. 4 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada
Director: Yasujiro Ozu
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Late Autumn (aka: Akibiyori): Ayako Miwa (Yoko Tsukasa) gives up thoughts of marriage in order to care for her widowed mother Akiko (Setsuko Hara). However, Akiko wishes her daughter to marry even though she will be left alone into old age and when the well-meaning relatives of her deceased husband ..read more »

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Ballad of Orin - 2.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Double Suicide - 3.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon - 4.0 stars
Harakiri - 4.5 stars

Ozu - Vol. 4 - An Autumn Afternoon - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - Late Autumn - 4.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - 4.0 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Harakiri - 4.5 stars

Ballad of Orin - 2.5 stars
Double Suicide - 3.0 stars
Harakiri - 4.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Ozu - Vol. 4 - 4.0 stars

Chishu Ryu - 3 times - show films
Miyuki Kuwano - 3 times - show films
Keiji Sada - 3 times - show films
Yoko Tsukasa - 3 times - show films
Mariko Okada - 3 times - show films

Yasujiro Ozu - 3 times - show films
Masahiro Shinoda - 3 times - show films
Masaki Kobayashi - 1 times - show films