Takako Irie

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: Acting

Born: Tokyo, Japan, 1911-02-07

Died: 1995-01-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1929	Metropolitan Symphony	Reiko Yamada	0
2	1929	The Morning Sun Shines	girl in the elevator	55
3	1929	A Living Puppet	Hiroko Kumikawa	0
4	1929	Tokyo March	早百合	60
5	1929	Matenro sôtohen		0
6	1930	Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown	Workwoman	70
7	1930	Behold This Mother		0
8	1931	Jean Valjean: Part One		0
9	1931	Jean Valjean: Part Two		0
10	1931	Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen		0
11	1932	The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia	Shiho Hime	0
12	1933	The Water Magician	Taki no Shiraito	72
13	1934	Tsuki yori no shisha	Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse	0
14	1934	Karisome no kuchibeni	Akiko	0
15	1935	Great Bodhisattva Pass		0
16	1936	Great Bodhisattva Pass 2	Ohama	0
17	1936	Kuriyama Daizen		0
18	1937	A Woman's Sorrows		67
19	1937	Mother's Melody		0
20	1937	Karayuki-san		0
21	1937	A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again		0
22	1937	A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes		0
23	1937	A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again		0
24	1937	Learn from Experience, Part One	Toyomi	60
25	1937	Learn from Experience, Part Two	Toyomi	62
26	1938	Tojuro's Love		0
27	1939	Enoken’s Shrewd Period		0
28	1939	Sincerity	Tobiko Haseyama	54
29	1940	The Snake Princess		0
30	1941	Dancers of Awa		0
31	1941	Yukiko and Natsuyo	Yukiko	60
32	1941	White Heron		0
33	1941	The Battle of Kawanakajima	Chiyono - widow	0
34	1942	Sky of Hope	Makiko	0
35	1942	Green Earth		0
36	1942	Mother Never Dies		60
37	1942	Wings of Victory		63
38	1942	Omokage no machi		0
39	1944	The Most Beautiful	Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother	56
40	1944	Four Marriages		0
41	1946	Life Is like a Somersault		0
42	1947	Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu		0
43	1947	壮士劇場		0
44	1947	Invitation to Happiness		0
45	1949	Odoroki ikka		0
46	1950	Kagebōshi	千賀	0
47	1950	Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu		0
48	1950	Blue Sky Angel		0
49	1951	Judge of the Ashuras		0
50	1951	Tales of a Drifter		0
51	1951	Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival		0
52	1953	Ghost of Saga Mansion	Otoyo-no-kata	75
53	1953	Love Letter		68
54	1953	Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace		80
55	1954	Maiko monogatari		0
56	1954	Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki		80
57	1954	Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko		0
58	1954	The Great White Tiger Platoon		60
59	1954	The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing		71
60	1955	The Roar of The Lion		0
61	1956	Matashirō Fighting Journey		0
62	1956	Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi	Court Lady Fujinami	80
63	1956	Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin		0
64	1957	Fighting Letter for 29 People		0
65	1957	Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp		70
66	1957	Lord Mito		54
67	1962	Sanjuro	Mutsuta's wife	80
68	1975	Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director		68
69	1979	The House of Hanging	Chizu Igarashi	60
70	1983	The Little Girl Who Conquered Time	Tatsu Fukamachi	66
71	1983	Legend of the Cat Monster	Akiko Ryuzoji	0
72	1984	The Deserted City	Shino	68

Takako Irie

Film

Television