Acting
Takako Irie
JA cinema · 98 credits
Born
7 February 1911
Died
12 January 1995 (aged 83)
Birthplace
Tokyo, Japan
Also known as Такако Ириэ
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
Filmography
The Deserted City
as Shino
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Tatsu Fukamachi
Legend of the Cat Monster
as Akiko Ryuzoji
The House of Hanging
as Chizu Igarashi
Sanjuro
as Mutsuta's wife
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
as Court Lady Fujinami
Ghost of Saga Mansion
as Otoyo-no-kata
The Most Beautiful
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Sky of Hope
as Makiko
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Chiyono - widow
Sincerity
as Tobiko Haseyama
Karisome no kuchibeni
as Akiko, Producer
Tsuki yori no shisha
as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
The Water Magician
as Taki no Shiraito, Producer
満蒙建国の黎明
1932
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
as Shiho Hime, Producer
The Morning Sun Shines
as girl in the elevator
A Living Puppet
as Hiroko Kumikawa
Tokyo March
as 早百合
Metropolitan Symphony
as Reiko Yamada