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Nationality: Japanese

Language: Japanese, English

Playing age: 25 ~ 40 years old

Height: 5'6" (169cm)

Weight: 52kg

Eye: Black

Hair: Black

Voice: Soft

Shuna Iijima is a bilingual Japanese actress based in London.

 

She studied theatre acting and physical theatre in London and since she came back to Japan, she has been actively collaborating with many filmmakers in and outside Japan. She is fluent in English and passionate about working internationally.

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Shuna is best known for her performances in "Bad Poetry Tokyo" (2018, directed by Anshul Chauhan) which she won Best Actress Award in international film festivals and "Ken and Kazu" (2015, directed by Hiroshi Shoji).

Year
2024
2023
2022


2021
2019
2018


2017

​2015
 
Title
Blue Imagine
Be My Guest, Be My Baby
Hodokesouna Iki (short)
I Traveled 10000 Light 　　         　      Years To Say Goodbye (short)
Mamorarenakatta Monotachi E
Hamabe no Gemu
Bad Poetry Tokyo
My Friend 'A' (Yuzai)
​Moon Rabbit (short)
I Want To Be Loved
​Blood, Sand and Gold
Ken and Kazu
 
Role
Amane Yamanaka
Li
Yuko Ono
Grief Counsellor

Detective
Fuuko
Jun Fujita
Call Centre Woman
​Seiko
Lica
Xiu
​Saki Ichijou
 
Production Company
Blue Imagine Film Partners　*International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024
Kyo-tas
Magnetize


Shochiku Studio Co., Ltd  *Busan International Film Festival 2021
Wa Entertainment   *Osaka Asian Film Festival 2019
Kowatanda Films    *Osaka Asian Film Festival 2018, Raindance Film Festival 2018
Gaga  *Shanghai International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

Wa Entertainment
American Film Productions
　　 *Tokyo International Film Festival [Japanese Cinema Splash] Best Picture 2015
 

【FILMS】                                                                                                                                                                              

Director
Urara Matsubayashi
Mitsuhito Shiraha
Masato Ozawa
Edmund Yeo

Takahisa Zeze
Aimi Natsuto
Anshul Chauhan
Takahisa Zeze
Kae Ho
Ronan Girre
Gaelan Connell
​Hiroshi Shoji
 
Year
2021
2019

 
Title
Until She Wakes Up
Naked Director

 
Role
Megu
Office Lady

 
Director
Kosai Sekine
Eiji Uchida

 

【ONLINE/STREAMING】                                                                                                                                                

Production Company
Amazon Music
Netflix

 
Year
2022　Jury member at Osaka Asian Film Festival (competition section)
2020    "Natsuko"  (Short film,  directing & script writing)  　                      *Glasgow Short Film Festival, Osaka Asian Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival
2019　Panelist at Young Filmmakers Forum in Tokyo International Film Festival
 

【OTHERS】                                                                                                                                                                        

Year
2018    Best Actress Award   /   Osaka Asian Film Festival  (Bad Poetry Tokyo) 
            Best Actress Award   /   Slemani International Film Festival  (Bad Poetry Tokyo)
            Best Acting Award     /   Atami International Film Festival  (Bad Poetry Tokyo)                                                                                                

【AWARDS】                                                                                                                                                                       

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