Takako Irie

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

115

Movies

Born: February 7, 1911 – January 12, 1995
From: 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".

Works

82 films

Sanjuro

19627.9

Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown

19307.0

The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing

19547.1

Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

19757.2

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time

19836.8

Tsuki yori no shisha

1934

Tales of a Drifter

1951

Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp

19577.0

Love Letter

19536.8

Three Mothers

1949

Legend of the Cat Monster

19835.0

Jean Valjean: Part One

19317.0

Learn from Experience, Part One

19376.7

Doburoku no Tatsu

1949

Doku bara

1949

Great Bodhisattva Pass

193510.0

Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

19549.0

Female Prisoner #36

1947

Hakata Dontaku

1947

Four Marriages

19448.0

Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

1936

Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace

19538.0

Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu

2026

Judge of the Ashuras

195110.0

The House of Hanging

19796.2

Madam with a Ribbon

1939

The Most Beautiful

19445.6

Tsumakoi kuroda bushi

1954

Sky of Hope

19428.0

Learn from Experience, Part Two

19376.3

Wings of Victory

19426.8

The Water Magician

19337.3

Family Diary Part II

1938

Odoroki ikka

1949

The Great White Tiger Platoon

19546.0

The Deserted City

19847.1

Shirobara wa sakedo

1937

Mother Never Dies

19426.2

Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider

1956

Ghost of Saga Mansion

19537.7

Kuriyama Daizen

1936

The Roar of The Lion

1955

Kagebōshi

1950

The Battle of Kawanakajima

19417.0

The Snake Princess

19408.0

Tokyo March

19296.1

Fighting Letter for 29 People

1957

Life Is like a Somersault

19467.0

A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again

193710.0

Matashirō Fighting Journey

1956

Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko

1954

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

19317.0

Karisome no kuchibeni

19347.0

Lord Mito

19575.4

The Morning Sun Shines

19295.8

Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival

1951

A Woman's Sorrows

19376.7

Dancers of Awa

19417.0

Invitation to Happiness

194710.0

Tojuro's Love

19387.0

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

1950

The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations

19568.0

Metropolitan Symphony

192910.0

Karayuki-san

1937

Mother's Melody

1937

Yukiko and Natsuyo

19416.0

Political Theater

1947

Behold This Mother

19309.0

Maiko monogatari

1954

Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu

1947

Sincerity

19396.0

A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes

1937

White Heron

19419.0

Green Earth

1942

Jean Valjean: Part Two

1931

The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia

19328.0

Omokage no machi

19428.0

A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again

1937

Enoken’s Shrewd Period

19399.0

A Living Puppet

192910.0

Blue Sky Angel

19508.0

Matenro sôtohen

1929