Takako Irie
Acting
1911-02-07 · 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".
Filmography
The Deserted City
1984 · Movie
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983 · Movie
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1983 · Movie
The House of Hanging
1979 · Movie
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975 · Movie
Sanjuro
1962 · Movie
Lord Mito
1957 · Movie
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957 · Movie
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957 · Movie
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956 · Movie
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956 · Movie
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956 · Movie
The Roar of The Lion
1955 · Movie
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954 · Movie
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954 · Movie
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954 · Movie
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954 · Movie
Maiko monogatari
1954 · Movie
Hana no nagadosu
1954 · Movie
Yoidore nitōryū
1954 · Movie
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954 · Movie
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953 · Movie
Love Letter
1953 · Movie
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953 · Movie
Dekoboko taikōki
1953 · Movie
Shachō hisho
1953 · Movie
Haha no hitomi
1953 · Movie
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
1953 · Movie
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951 · Movie
Tales of a Drifter
1951 · Movie
Judge of the Ashuras
1951 · Movie
Blue Sky Angel
1950 · Movie
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950 · Movie
Kagebōshi
1950 · Movie
Odoroki ikka
1949 · Movie
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949 · Movie
Doku bara
1949 · Movie
Three Mothers
1949 · Movie
Hakata Dontaku
1947 · Movie
Invitation to Happiness
1947 · Movie
Female Prisoner #36
1947 · Movie
Political Theater
1947 · Movie
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947 · Movie
Life Is like a Somersault
1946 · Movie
Four Marriages
1944 · Movie
The Most Beautiful
1944 · Movie
Omokage no machi
1942 · Movie
Wings of Victory
1942 · Movie
Mother Never Dies
1942 · Movie
Green Earth
1942 · Movie
Sky of Hope
1942 · Movie
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941 · Movie
White Heron
1941 · Movie
Yukiko and Natsuyo
1941 · Movie
Dancers of Awa
1941 · Movie
The Snake Princess
1940 · Movie
Madam with a Ribbon
1939 · Movie
Sincerity
1939 · Movie
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939 · Movie
Family Diary Part II
1938 · Movie
Tojuro's Love
1938 · Movie
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937 · Movie
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937 · Movie
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937 · Movie
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937 · Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937 · Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937 · Movie
Karayuki-san
1937 · Movie
Mother's Melody
1937 · Movie
A Woman's Sorrows
1937 · Movie
Kuriyama Daizen
1936 · Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
1936 · Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935 · Movie
Karisome no kuchibeni
1934 · Movie
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934 · Movie
The Water Magician
1933 · Movie
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
1932 · Movie
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931 · Movie
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931 · Movie
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931 · Movie
Behold This Mother
1930 · Movie
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
1930 · Movie
Matenro sôtohen
1929 · Movie
Tokyo March
1929 · Movie
A Living Puppet
1929 · Movie
The Morning Sun Shines
1929 · Movie
Metropolitan Symphony
1929 · Movie
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
Movie