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Acting
Takako Irie
Also known as: Такако Ириэ
Biography
Takako Irie (入江 たか子 Irie Takako, 7 February 1911 – 12 January 1995) was a Japanese film actress. Born in Tokyo into the aristocratic Higashibōjō family (her birth name was Hideko Higashibōjō (東坊城 英子 Higashibōjō Hideko)), she graduated from Bunka Gakuin before debuting as an actress at Nikkatsu in 1927. She became a major star, even starting her own production company, Irie Productions, in 1932. One of Kenji Mizoguchi's silent film masterpieces, The Water Magician, was produced at that company with Irie starring. She appeared in many advertisements, as well as on fans and other commercial goods. Irie was also the subject of a folding screen painting by Nihonga artist Nakamura Daizaburō, which appeared in the 1930 Teiten (Imperial Exhibition), and which is today in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art; toy dolls were also produced based on this image. In the postwar period, Irie became known as a "ghost cat actress" (bakeneko joyū) for appearing in a series of kaidan (ghost story) movies. One of her late memorable roles was in Akira Kurosawa's Sanjuro, where she plays Mutsuta's wife, the lady who warns Sanjuro (Toshirō Mifune) that "the best sword stays in its scabbard".
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
February 7, 1911
Day of Death
January 12, 1995
Age at Death
83 years old
Place of Birth
Tokyo, Japan
Popularity Score
0.6
Filmography
The Deserted City
Shino
1984Movie
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Tatsu Fukamachi
1983Movie
Legend of the Cat Monster
Akiko Ryuzoji
1983Movie
The House of Hanging
Chizu Igarashi
1979Movie
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Self
1975Movie
Sanjuro
Mutsuta's wife
1962Movie
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957Movie
Lord Mito
1957Movie
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957Movie
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Court Lady Fujinami
1956Movie
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956Movie
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956Movie
The Roar of The Lion
1955Movie
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954Movie
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954Movie
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954Movie
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954Movie
Maiko monogatari
1954Movie
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954Movie
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Otoyo-no-kata
1953Movie
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953Movie
Love Letter
1953Movie
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
1953Movie
Haha no hitomi
1953Movie
Shachō hisho
1953Movie
Dekoboko taikōki
1953Movie
Judge of the Ashuras
1951Movie
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951Movie
Tales of a Drifter
1951Movie
Kagebōshi
千賀
1950Movie
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950Movie
Blue Sky Angel
1950Movie
Odoroki ikka
1949Movie
Three Mothers
1949Movie
Doku bara
1949Movie
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949Movie
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947Movie
Political Theater
1947Movie
Invitation to Happiness
1947Movie
Female Prisoner #36
1947Movie
Hakata Dontaku
1947Movie
Life Is like a Somersault
1946Movie
The Most Beautiful
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
1944Movie
Four Marriages
1944Movie
Green Earth
1942Movie
Mother Never Dies
1942Movie
Wings of Victory
1942Movie
Omokage no machi
1942Movie
Sky of Hope
Makiko
1942Movie
White Heron
1941Movie
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Yukiko
1941Movie
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Chiyono - widow
1941Movie
Dancers of Awa
1941Movie
The Snake Princess
1940Movie
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939Movie
Sincerity
Tobiko Haseyama
1939Movie
Madam with a Ribbon
1939Movie
Tojuro's Love
1938Movie
Family Diary Part II
1938Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937Movie
Learn from Experience, Part One
Toyomi
1937Movie
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Toyomi
1937Movie
Karayuki-san
1937Movie
A Woman's Sorrows
1937Movie
Mother's Melody
1937Movie
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937Movie
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Ohama
1936Movie
Kuriyama Daizen
1936Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935Movie
Karisome no kuchibeni
Akiko
1934Movie
Tsuki yori no shisha
Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
1934Movie
Karisome no kuchibeni
Producer
1934Movie
The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito
1933Movie
The Water Magician
Producer
1933Movie
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Shiho Hime
1932Movie
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Producer
1932Movie
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931Movie
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931Movie
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931Movie
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Workwoman
1930Movie
Behold This Mother
1930Movie
The Morning Sun Shines
girl in the elevator
1929Movie
Matenro sôtohen
1929Movie
A Living Puppet
Hiroko Kumikawa
1929Movie
Tokyo March
早百合
1929Movie
Metropolitan Symphony
Reiko Yamada
1929Movie
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
—Movie