x

Login

Remember me
Forget password ?

Or via social

x

sign up

person_profile-Takako Irie

Takako Irie Died at age: 83

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Takako Irie

Date of Birth:

Feb 07, 1911

Country of birth:

Japan

Died:

Jan 12, 1995

Biography of

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".

Photos of

Takako Irie

Photos ( 1 Photos

Filmography of

Takako Irie

Found 54 Movies in total

Legend of the Cat Monster

Akiko Ryuzoji ( Actor )

... 1998

The Deserted City

Shino ( Actor )

... 1984

The Little Girl Who Conquered Time

Tatsu Fukamachi ( Actor )

... 1983

The House of Hanging

Chizu Igarashi ( Actor )

... 1979

... 1975

Sanjuro

Mutsuta's wife ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1957

... 1957

... 1957

Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi

Court Lady Fujinami ( Actor )

... 1956

... 1956

... 1955

... 1954

... 1954

... 1954

... 1953

... 1953

Ghost of Saga Mansion

Otoyo-no-kata ( Actor )

... 1953

... 1951

... 1950

... 1950

Kagebōshi

千賀 ( Actor )

... 1950

... 1949

... 1947

... 1947

... 1947

... 1946

... 1944

The Most Beautiful

Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother ( Actor )

... 1944

... 1942

... 1942

... 1942

... 1942

Sky of Hope

Makiko ( Actor )

... 1942

The Battle of Kawanakajima

Chiyono - widow ( Actor )

... 1941

... 1941

... 1941

Sincerity

Tobiko Haseyama ( Actor )

... 1939

... 1939

... 1938

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

... 1937

... 1936

... 1935

Karisome no kuchibeni

Akiko ( Actor )

Producer

... 1934

Tsuki yori no shisha

Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse ( Actor )

... 1934

The Water Magician

Taki no Shiraito ( Actor )

Producer

... 1933

... 1929

... -0001