Cast
Takako Irie
Acting
Cast
Takako Irie
Known for
Acting
Born
1911-02-07
From
Tokyo, Japan
Died
1995-01-12
Also known as Такако Ириэ
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".
Sanjuro
as Mutsuta's wife
The Most Beautiful
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Tatsu Fukamachi
Love Letter
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Learn from Experience, Part One
as Toyomi
Four Marriages
Sky of Hope
as Makiko
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
The Morning Sun Shines
as girl in the elevator
Wings of Victory
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
as Workwoman
The Snake Princess
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Judge of the Ashuras
The House of Hanging
as Chizu Igarashi
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Chiyono - widow
Green Earth
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
The Deserted City
as Shino
Dancers of Awa
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Tokyo March
as 早百合
The Roar of The Lion
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Odoroki ikka
Tsuki yori no shisha
as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
The Water Magician
as Taki no Shiraito
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
as Court Lady Fujinami
Kagebōshi
as 千賀
Mother Never Dies
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Mother's Melody
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
as Ohama
Legend of the Cat Monster
as Akiko Ryuzoji
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Omokage no machi
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Blue Sky Angel
White Heron
Fighting Letter for 29 People
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
Ghost of Saga Mansion
as Otoyo-no-kata
Maiko monogatari
A Woman's Sorrows
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Learn from Experience, Part Two
as Toyomi
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
as Shiho Hime
Life Is like a Somersault
Matashirō Fighting Journey
Kuriyama Daizen
Invitation to Happiness
Lord Mito
Tales of a Drifter
Karisome no kuchibeni
as Akiko
A Living Puppet
as Hiroko Kumikawa
Matenro sôtohen
Karayuki-san
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
Metropolitan Symphony
as Reiko Yamada
Tojuro's Love
Jean Valjean: Part One
Sincerity
as Tobiko Haseyama
Jean Valjean: Part Two
Behold This Mother
Yukiko and Natsuyo
as Yukiko
壮士劇場
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Madam with a Ribbon
Family Diary Part II
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
