[2] An early cinema role was the December 1990 straight-to-video V-cinema drama Strawberry Times 4: Kisaragi San Shimai no Gyakushū (ストロベリータイムス４ 如月三姉妹の逆襲) which also starred Risa Tachibana and Mari Ayukawa.
[11][12] After Zero Woman, Iijima worked largely in the domain of Japanese TV dramas (J-dorama)[1] including the Fuji Television suspense drama Taeko Sashow's Last Case (沙粧妙子 最後の事件, Sashow Taeko Saigo no Jiken) starring Atsuko Asano which aired from July to September 1995[13] and the 1998 comedy also on Fuji TV, Sometime Somewhere (今夜、宇宙の片隅で, Konya Uchu no Katasumi de), co-starring Masahiko Nishimura, which had a setting in New York City.
In this romantic comedy, Iijima's character, Naomi Shimizu, is a spoiled rich girl in a dream job who is brought down by circumstances to being a bicycle delivery messenger.
[15][16] Iijima returned to television in 2000 with the Fuji TV series Bus Stop (バスストップ, Basu Sutoppu) which ran in twelve episode from July to September 2000.
Her role was once again the poor little rich girl (as in the film Messengers) but this time she has to resurrect a fading bus company in Tokyo with Teruyoshi Uchimura as the love interest.
[26] The romantic comedy How to Marry a 40-Year-Old Woman in 90 Days (４０女と９０日間で結婚する方法, 40 Onna to 90 Nichi Kan de Kekkon suru Houhou) has a 23-year-old "salaryman" (Hayato Ichihara) falling in love with Iijima's character, an "around 40 year old" beautician.