Takako Irie
Acting
Born: February 7, 1911 · Tokyo, Japan
Died: January 12, 1995 (aged 83)
Highest Rated
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
Photos (1)
Movies (83)
Sanjuro
Mutsuta's wife
The Most Beautiful
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Tatsu Fukamachi
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Toyomi
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
1955
Koshimoto gyōjōki
1956
The House of Hanging
Chizu Igarashi
Love Letter
1953
Legend of the Cat Monster
Akiko Ryuzoji
Sky of Hope
Makiko
The Rust Cleaner Sings
1955
Shiranui zukin
1957
Haha shirayuki
1956
Hana no nagadosu
1954
Akōgishi
1954
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
The Deserted City
Shino
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Otoyo-no-kata
Karayuki-san
1937
Dekoboko taikōki
1953
Mother Never Dies
1942
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
1955
Wings of Victory
1942
Date sōdō: Haha goten
1954
Lord Mito
1957
Judge of the Ashuras
1951
Haha no hitomi
1953
Mother's Melody
1937
Three Mothers
1949
Tojuro's Love
1938
Learn from Experience, Part One
Toyomi
Dancers of Awa
1941
Political Theater
1947
Omokage no machi
1942
Blue Sky Angel
1950
Shachō hisho
1953
Nagasaki no yoru
1955
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939
Yoidore nitōryū
1954
Kagebōshi
千賀
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Court Lady Fujinami
Invitation to Happiness
1947
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
1953
Sincerity
Tobiko Haseyama
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
Odoroki ikka
1949
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954
The Water Magician
Taki no Shiraito
Karisome no kuchibeni
Akiko
White Heron
1941
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937
The Roar of The Lion
1955
Tokyo March
早百合
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
Kuriyama Daizen
1936
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Chiyono - widow
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954
Green Earth
1942
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954
Metropolitan Symphony
Reiko Yamada
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953
The Morning Sun Shines
girl in the elevator
A Living Puppet
Hiroko Kumikawa
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957
Behold This Mother
1930
Tsuki yori no shisha
Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
Maiko monogatari
1954
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957
Four Marriages
1944
Life Is like a Somersault
1946
Tekka bugyō
1954
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
