, also known by the names , and , was a Japanese film and television director, producer, and screenwriter.
Iijima was born on September 3, 1932, in Tokyo Prefecture. After graduating from , he entered the Faculty of Letters at Keio University because he was interested in the playwright Michio Kato. At that time, Kato was teaching at the Department of Japanese Literature, Faculty of Letters at the university, but committed suicide the next year. He chose the Department of English because he could no longer see the point of entering the Department of Japanese Literature.