Takako Irie
Acting
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
Acting79
movieLegend of the Cat Monster
1983
Akiko Ryuzoji
movieThe Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1983
Tatsu Fukamachi
movieThe House of Hanging
1979
Chizu Igarashi
movieSanjuro
1962
Mutsuta's wife
movieThe Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
Court Lady Fujinami
movieGhost of Saga Mansion
1953
Otoyo-no-kata
movieThe Most Beautiful
1944
Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
movieSky of Hope
1942
Makiko
movieThe Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
Chiyono - widow
movieSincerity
1939
Tobiko Haseyama
movieTsuki yori no shisha
1934
Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
movieThe Water Magician
1933
Taki no Shiraito
movieA Living Puppet
1929
Hiroko Kumikawa
movieThe Morning Sun Shines
1929
girl in the elevator
movieMetropolitan Symphony
1929
Reiko Yamada