Takako Irie
Age: N/A | From: Tokyo, Japan
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Такако Ириэ
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan
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Movie Involvements: 24
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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".
Most Famous Work
The Little Girl Who Conquered Time
(1983) Tatsu Fukamachi
The Most Beautiful
(1944) Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Legend of the Cat Monster
(1998) Akiko Ryuzoji
Learn from Experience, Part Two
(1937) Toyomi
The House of Hanging
(1979) Chizu Igarashi
Learn from Experience, Part One
(1937) Toyomi
Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi
(1956) Court Lady Fujinami
Metropolitan Symphony
(1929) Reiko YamadaActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
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| 1998 | Akiko Ryuzoji | |
| 1984 | Shino | |
| 1983 | Tatsu Fukamachi | |
| 1979 | Chizu Igarashi | |
| 1975 | N/A | |
| 1962 | Mutsuta's wife | |
| 1957 | N/A | |
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| 1956 | N/A | |
| Court Lady Fujinami | ||
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| 1955 | N/A | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
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| 1953 | N/A | |
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| Otoyo-no-kata | ||
| 1951 | N/A | |
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| 1950 | N/A | |
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| 千賀 | ||
| 1949 | N/A | |
| 1947 | N/A | |
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| 1946 | N/A | |
| 1944 | N/A | |
| Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother | ||
| 1942 | N/A | |
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| Makiko | ||
| 1941 | Chiyono - widow | |
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| Yukiko | ||
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| 1940 | N/A | |
| 1939 | Tobiko Haseyama | |
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| 1938 | N/A | |
| 1937 | Toyomi | |
| Toyomi | ||
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| 1936 | N/A | |
| Ohama | ||
| 1935 | N/A | |
| 1934 | Akiko | |
| Michiko Nonoguchi, nurse | ||
| 1933 | Taki no Shiraito | |
| 1932 | Shiho Hime | |
| 1931 | N/A | |
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| 1930 | N/A | |
| Workwoman | ||
| 1929 | N/A | |
| Hiroko Kumikawa | ||
| girl in the elevator | ||
| Reiko Yamada | ||
| Sayuri | ||
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| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
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| 1934 | Producer | |
| 1933 | Producer | |
| 1932 | Producer | |
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