Takako Irie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- February 7, 1911
- Died
- January 12, 1995 (aged 83)
- Birthplace
- Tokyo, Japan
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".
Known For
Filmography
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
Movie
The Deserted City
Movie · as Shino
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie · as Tatsu Fukamachi
Legend of the Cat Monster
Movie · as Akiko Ryuzoji
The House of Hanging
Movie · as Chizu Igarashi
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie · as Self
Sanjuro
Movie · as Mutsuta's wife
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Movie
Lord Mito
Movie
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Movie
Shiranui zukin
Movie
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Movie · as Court Lady Fujinami
Matashirō Fighting Journey
Movie
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
Movie
Koshimoto gyōjōki
Movie
Haha shirayuki
Movie
The Roar of The Lion
Movie
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
Movie
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
Movie
The Rust Cleaner Sings
Movie
Nagasaki no yoru
Movie
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Movie
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Movie
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Movie
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Movie
Maiko monogatari
Movie
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Movie
Yoidore nitōryū
Movie
Hana no nagadosu
Movie
Tekka bugyō
Movie
Akōgishi
Movie
Date sōdō: Haha goten
Movie
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Movie
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Movie · as Otoyo-no-kata
Love Letter
Movie
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
Movie
Haha no hitomi
Movie
Shachō hisho
Movie
Dekoboko taikōki
Movie
Judge of the Ashuras
Movie
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
Movie
Tales of a Drifter
Movie
Kagebōshi
Movie · as 千賀
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Movie
Blue Sky Angel
Movie
Odoroki ikka
Movie
Three Mothers
Movie
Doku bara
Movie
Doburoku no Tatsu
Movie
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Movie
Political Theater
Movie
Invitation to Happiness
Movie
Female Prisoner #36
Movie
Hakata Dontaku
Movie
Life Is like a Somersault
Movie
The Most Beautiful
Movie · as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Four Marriages
Movie
Green Earth
Movie
Mother Never Dies
Movie
Wings of Victory
Movie
Omokage no machi
Movie
Sky of Hope
Movie · as Makiko
White Heron
Movie
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Movie · as Yukiko
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Movie · as Chiyono - widow
Dancers of Awa
Movie
The Snake Princess
Movie
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
Movie
Sincerity
Movie · as Tobiko Haseyama
Madam with a Ribbon
Movie
Tojuro's Love
Movie
Family Diary Part II
Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Movie
Learn from Experience, Part One
Movie · as Toyomi
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Movie · as Toyomi
Karayuki-san
Movie
A Woman's Sorrows
Movie
Mother's Melody
Movie
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Movie
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Movie
Shirobara wa sakedo
Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Movie · as Ohama
Kuriyama Daizen
Movie
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Movie
Karisome no kuchibeni
Movie · as Akiko
Tsuki yori no shisha
Movie · as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
The Water Magician
Movie · as Taki no Shiraito
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Movie · as Shiho Hime
Jean Valjean: Part One
Movie
Jean Valjean: Part Two
Movie
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Movie
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Movie · as Workwoman
Behold This Mother
Movie
The Morning Sun Shines
Movie · as girl in the elevator
Matenro sôtohen
Movie
A Living Puppet
Movie · as Hiroko Kumikawa
Tokyo March
Movie · as 早百合
Metropolitan Symphony
Movie · as Reiko Yamada