Takako Irie
Known for: Acting
Born: February 7, 1911
Died: January 12, 1995
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
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".
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Filmography
91 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
7.1
The Deserted City
1984
5.0
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
6.8
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1983
6.2
The House of Hanging
1979
7.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
7.9
Sanjuro
1962
5.4
Lord Mito
1957
7.0
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957
NR
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957NR
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956
8.0
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
NR
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956
NR
The Roar of The Lion
1955
7.1
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954
NR
Date sōdō: Haha goten
1954
NR
Akōgishi
1954
6.0
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954
NR
Tekka bugyō
1954
NR
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954
9.0
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954
NR
Maiko monogatari
1954
NR
Hana no nagadosu
1954
NR
Yoidore nitōryū
1954
NR
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954
8.0
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953
6.8
Love Letter
1953
7.7
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953
NR
Dekoboko taikōki
1953
NR
Shachō hisho
1953
NR
Haha no hitomi
1953
NR
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
1953
NR
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951NR
Tales of a Drifter
1951
10.0
Judge of the Ashuras
1951
8.0
Blue Sky Angel
1950
NR
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
NR
Kagebōshi
1950
NR
Odoroki ikka
1949
NR
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949NR
Doku bara
1949
NR
Three Mothers
1949NR
Hakata Dontaku
1947
10.0
Invitation to Happiness
1947NR
Female Prisoner #36
1947
NR
Political Theater
1947
NR
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
7.0
Life Is like a Somersault
1946
8.0
Four Marriages
1944
5.6
The Most Beautiful
1944
8.0
Omokage no machi
1942
6.8
Wings of Victory
1942
6.2
Mother Never Dies
1942
NR
Green Earth
1942
8.0
Sky of Hope
1942
7.0
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
9.0
White Heron
19416.0
Yukiko and Natsuyo
1941
7.0
Dancers of Awa
19418.0
The Snake Princess
1940NR
Madam with a Ribbon
1939
6.0
Sincerity
1939
9.0
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939NR
Family Diary Part II
1938
7.0
Tojuro's Love
1938
6.3
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
6.7
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
NR
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937
NR
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
10.0
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937
NR
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937
NR
Karayuki-san
1937
NR
Mother's Melody
1937
6.7
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
NR
Kuriyama Daizen
1936NR
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
1936
10.0
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935
7.0
Karisome no kuchibeni
1934
NR
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
7.3
The Water Magician
19338.0
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
1932
7.0
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
NR
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931
7.0
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931
9.0
Behold This Mother
19307.0
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
1930NR
Matenro sôtohen
1929
6.1
Tokyo March
1929
10.0
A Living Puppet
1929
5.8
The Morning Sun Shines
1929
10.0
Metropolitan Symphony
1929NR
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
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