Takako Irie
Acting
Born 1911-02-07
Died 1995-01-12
Tokyo, Japan
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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
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Acting
18 credits
Sanjuro
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Tsuki yori no shisha
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
The Most Beautiful
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Learn from Experience, Part One
The House of Hanging
The Water Magician
Legend of the Cat Monster
The Deserted City
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Kagebōshi
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Sky of Hope
A Living Puppet
Tokyo March
Other credits
42 credits
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Love Letter
Three Mothers
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Tales of a Drifter
Jean Valjean: Part One
Female Prisoner #36
Doburoku no Tatsu
Lord Mito
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Four Marriages
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
Doku bara
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Judge of the Ashuras
Kuriyama Daizen
Hakata Dontaku
Madam with a Ribbon
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Family Diary Part II
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Matashirō Fighting Journey
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
Wings of Victory
Shirobara wa sakedo
Dancers of Awa
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
Blue Sky Angel
Life Is like a Somersault
Invitation to Happiness
The Snake Princess
Green Earth
Mother Never Dies
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Odoroki ikka
The Roar of The Lion
Maiko monogatari
A Woman's Sorrows
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
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