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Takako Irie
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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…
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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".
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Takako Irie's Filmography
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The Deserted City
as Shino
Legend of the Cat Monster
as Akiko Ryuzoji
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
as Tatsu Fukamachi
The House of Hanging
as Chizu Igarashi
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
as Self
Sanjuro
as Mutsuta's wife
Shiranui zukin
Lord Mito
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Haha shirayuki
No Poster
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
as Court Lady Fujinami
Koshimoto gyōjōki
Matashirō Fighting Journey
The Roar of The Lion
Nagasaki no yoru
The Rust Cleaner Sings
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Date sōdō: Haha goten
Akōgishi
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Tekka bugyō
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Maiko monogatari
Hana no nagadosu
Yoidore nitōryū
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Love Letter
Ghost of Saga Mansion
as Otoyo-no-kata
Dekoboko taikōki
Shachō hisho
Haha no hitomi
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
No Poster
Tales of a Drifter
Judge of the Ashuras
Blue Sky Angel
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Kagebōshi
as 千賀
Odoroki ikka
Doburoku no Tatsu
No Poster
Doku bara
Three Mothers
No Poster
Hakata Dontaku
Invitation to Happiness
No Poster
Female Prisoner #36
Political Theater
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Life Is like a Somersault
Four Marriages
The Most Beautiful
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Omokage no machi
Wings of Victory
Mother Never Dies
Green Earth
Sky of Hope
as Makiko
The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Chiyono - widow
White Heron
No Poster
Yukiko and Natsuyo
as Yukiko
Dancers of Awa
No Poster
The Snake Princess
No Poster
Madam with a Ribbon
Sincerity
as Tobiko Haseyama
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
No Poster
Family Diary Part II
Tojuro's Love
Learn from Experience, Part Two
as Toyomi
Learn from Experience, Part One
as Toyomi
Shirobara wa sakedo
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Karayuki-san
Mother's Melody
A Woman's Sorrows
Kuriyama Daizen
No Poster
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
as Ohama
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Karisome no kuchibeni
as Akiko
Tsuki yori no shisha
as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
The Water Magician
as Taki no Shiraito
No Poster
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
as Shiho Hime
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Jean Valjean: Part Two
Jean Valjean: Part One
Behold This Mother
No Poster
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
as Workwoman
No Poster
Matenro sôtohen
Tokyo March
as 早百合
A Living Puppet
as Hiroko Kumikawa
The Morning Sun Shines
as girl in the elevator
Metropolitan Symphony
as Reiko Yamada
No Poster