Takako Irie
Acting · Born Feb 7, 1911 · Died Jan 12, 1995 (83) · 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".
Known for
Films
The Deserted City
19847.2
Legend of the Cat Monster
19835.0
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
19836.8
The House of Hanging
19796.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
19757.2
Sanjuro
19627.9
Shiranui zukin
1957
Lord Mito
19575.4
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
19577.0
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957
Haha shirayuki
1956
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
19568.0
Koshimoto gyōjōki
1956
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956
The Roar of The Lion
1955
Nagasaki no yoru
1955
The Rust Cleaner Sings
1955
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
1955
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
1955
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
19547.1
Date sōdō: Haha goten
1954
Akōgishi
1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
19546.0
Tekka bugyō
1954
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
19549.0
Maiko monogatari
1954
Hana no nagadosu
1954
Yoidore nitōryū
1954
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
19538.0
Love Letter
19537.2
Ghost of Saga Mansion
19537.7
Dekoboko taikōki
1953
Shachō hisho
1953
Haha no hitomi
1953
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
1953
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
Judge of the Ashuras
195110.0
Blue Sky Angel
19508.0
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Kagebōshi
1950
Odoroki ikka
1949
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949
Three Mothers
1949
Invitation to Happiness
194710.0
Political Theater
1947
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
Life Is like a Somersault
19467.0
Four Marriages
19448.0
The Most Beautiful
19445.6
Omokage no machi
19428.0
Wings of Victory
19426.8
Mother Never Dies
19426.2
Green Earth
1942
Sky of Hope
19428.0
The Battle of Kawanakajima
19417.0
White Heron
19419.0
Dancers of Awa
19417.0
Sincerity
19396.0
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
19399.0
Tojuro's Love
19387.0
Learn from Experience, Part Two
19376.3
Learn from Experience, Part One
19376.7
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
193710.0
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937
Karayuki-san
1937
Mother's Melody
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
19376.7
Kuriyama Daizen
1936
Great Bodhisattva Pass
193510.0
Karisome no kuchibeni
19347.0
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
The Water Magician
19337.2
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
19317.0
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931
Jean Valjean: Part One
19317.0
Behold This Mother
19309.0
Tokyo March
19296.1
A Living Puppet
192910.0
The Morning Sun Shines
19295.8
Metropolitan Symphony
192910.0