Takako Irie
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1911-02-07
Deathday 1995-01-12 (83 years old)
Place of Birth Tokyo, Japan
Also Known As Такако Ириэ
Takako Irie
Biography
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
Actor
as Akiko Ryuzoji
as Shino
as Tatsu Fukamachi
as Chizu Igarashi
as Mutsuta's wife
as Court Lady Fujinami
as Otoyo-no-kata
as 千賀
as Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
as Makiko
as Chiyono - widow
as Yukiko
as Tobiko Haseyama
as Toyomi
as Toyomi
as Ohama
as Akiko
as Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse
as Taki no Shiraito
as Shiho Hime
as Workwoman
as 早百合
as Hiroko Kumikawa
as girl in the elevator
as Reiko Yamada
Producer
as Producer
as Producer
as Producer