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Takako Irie
Born · February 7, 1911
Died · January 12, 1995 (83 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Japan
Bio
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".
The Deserted City
Shino
6.8
1984
Legend of the Cat Monster
Akiko Ryuzoji
0.0
1983
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
Tatsu Fukamachi
6.6
1983
The House of Hanging
Chizu Igarashi
6.0
1979
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
6.8
1975
Sanjuro
Mutsuta's wife
7.9
1962
Lord Mito
5.4
1957
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
7.0
1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
0.0
1957
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
0.0
1956
Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi
Court Lady Fujinami
8.0
1956
Matashirō Fighting Journey
0.0
1956
The Roar of The Lion
0.0
1955
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
7.1
1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
6.0
1954
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
0.0
1954
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
8.0
1954
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
8.0
1953
Love Letter
6.8
1953
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Otoyo-no-kata
7.5
1953
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
0.0
1951
Tales of a Drifter
0.0
1951
Judge of the Ashuras
0.0
1951
Blue Sky Angel
0.0
1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
0.0
1950
Kagebōshi
千賀
0.0
1950
Odoroki ikka
0.0
1949
Invitation to Happiness
0.0
1947
壮士劇場
0.0
1947
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
0.0
1947
Life Is like a Somersault
0.0
1946
Four Marriages
0.0
1944
The Most Beautiful
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
5.6
1944
Omokage no machi
0.0
1942
Wings of Victory
6.3
1942
Mother Never Dies
6.0
1942
Green Earth
0.0
1942
Sky of Hope
Makiko
0.0
1942
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Chiyono - widow
0.0
1941
White Heron
0.0
1941
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Yukiko
6.0
1941
Dancers of Awa
0.0
1941
The Snake Princess
0.0
1940
Sincerity
Tobiko Haseyama
5.4
1939
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
0.0
1939
Tojuro's Love
0.0
1938
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Toyomi
6.2
1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
Toyomi
6.0
1937
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
0.0
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
0.0
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
0.0
1937
Karayuki-san
0.0
1937
Mother's Melody
0.0
1937
A Woman's Sorrows
6.7
1937
Kuriyama Daizen
0.0
1936
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Ohama
0.0
1936
Great Bodhisattva Pass
0.0
1935
Karisome no kuchibeni
Akiko
0.0
1934
Tsuki yori no shisha
Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
0.0
1934
The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito
7.2
1933
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Shiho Hime
0.0
1932
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
0.0
1931
Jean Valjean: Part Two
0.0
1931
Jean Valjean: Part One
0.0
1931
Behold This Mother
0.0
1930
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Workwoman
7.0
1930
Matenro sôtohen
0.0
1929
Tokyo March
早百合
6.0
1929
A Living Puppet
Hiroko Kumikawa
0.0
1929
The Morning Sun Shines
girl in the elevator
5.5
1929
Metropolitan Symphony
Reiko Yamada
0.0
1929