8.0
8.0
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
as Court Lady Fujinami
Takako Irie
Acting
Born:February 7, 1911
Died:January 12, 1995(aged 83)
Birthplace:Tokyo, Japan
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CommunityBiography
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".
Filmography (68 movies)
8.0
8.0
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953
8.0
8.0
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954
8.0
8.0
Sanjuro
1962
as Mutsuta's wife
7.5
7.5
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953
as Otoyo-no-kata
7.2
7.2
The Water Magician
1933
Producer
7.1
7.1
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954
7.1
7.1
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975
7.0
7.0
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
1930
as Workwoman
7.0
7.0
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957
6.8
6.8
The Deserted City
1984
as Shino
6.7
6.7
A Woman's Sorrows
1937
6.3
6.3
Wings of Victory
1942
6.2
6.2
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937
as Toyomi
6.0
6.0
Tokyo March
1929
as 早百合
6.0
6.0
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937
as Toyomi
6.0
6.0
The House of Hanging
1979
as Chizu Igarashi
6.0
6.0
Mother Never Dies
1942
6.0
6.0
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954
6.0
6.0
Yukiko and Natsuyo
1941
as Yukiko
5.6
5.6
The Most Beautiful
1944
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
5.5
5.5
The Morning Sun Shines
1929
as girl in the elevator
5.4
5.4
Sincerity
1939
as Tobiko Haseyama
Tojuro's Love
1938
Life Is like a Somersault
1946
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937
White Heron
1941
Green Earth
1942
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
1932
Producer
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954
Kagebōshi
1950
as 千賀
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939
Karisome no kuchibeni
1934
Producer
Blue Sky Angel
1950
Odoroki ikka
1949
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951
壮士劇場
1947
Karayuki-san
1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937
Invitation to Happiness
1947
Maiko monogatari
1954
Sky of Hope
1942
as Makiko
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934
as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
Behold This Mother
1930
Metropolitan Symphony
1929
as Reiko Yamada
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935
The Snake Princess
1940
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
1936
as Ohama
Omokage no machi
1942
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
as Chiyono - widow
A Living Puppet
1929
as Hiroko Kumikawa
Four Marriages
1944
Dancers of Awa
1941
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983
as Akiko Ryuzoji
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957
Tales of a Drifter
1951
Mother's Melody
1937
The Roar of The Lion
1955
Judge of the Ashuras
1951
Matenro sôtohen
1929
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
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