Acting
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".
Filmography
The Deserted City
Film · 1984
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Film · 1983
Legend of the Cat Monster
Film · 1983
The House of Hanging
Film · 1979
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Film · 1975
Sanjuro
Film · 1962
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
Film · 1957
Lord Mito
Film · 1957
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Film · 1957
Shiranui zukin
Film · 1957
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Film · 1956
Matashirō Fighting Journey
Film · 1956
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
Film · 1956
Koshimoto gyōjōki
Film · 1956
Haha shirayuki
Film · 1956
The Roar of The Lion
Film · 1955
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Dokuro kago
Film · 1955
Hana no nijū hachinin shū
Film · 1955
The Rust Cleaner Sings
Film · 1955
Nagasaki no yoru
Film · 1955
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Film · 1954
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
Film · 1954
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Film · 1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Film · 1954
Maiko monogatari
Film · 1954
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Film · 1954
Yoidore nitōryū
Film · 1954
Hana no nagadosu
Film · 1954
Tekka bugyō
Film · 1954
Akōgishi
Film · 1954
Date sōdō: Haha goten
Film · 1954
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Film · 1953
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Film · 1953
Love Letter
Film · 1953
Zenigata heiji torimono hikae: Karakuri yashiki
Film · 1953
Haha no hitomi
Film · 1953
Shachō hisho
Film · 1953
Dekoboko taikōki
Film · 1953
Judge of the Ashuras
Film · 1951
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
Film · 1951
Tales of a Drifter
Film · 1951
Kagebōshi
Film · 1950
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
Film · 1950
Blue Sky Angel
Film · 1950
Odoroki ikka
Film · 1949
Three Mothers
Film · 1949
Doku bara
Film · 1949
Doburoku no Tatsu
Film · 1949
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
Film · 1947
Political Theater
Film · 1947
Invitation to Happiness
Film · 1947
Female Prisoner #36
Film · 1947
Hakata Dontaku
Film · 1947
Life Is like a Somersault
Film · 1946
The Most Beautiful
Film · 1944
Four Marriages
Film · 1944
Green Earth
Film · 1942
Mother Never Dies
Film · 1942
Wings of Victory
Film · 1942
Omokage no machi
Film · 1942
Sky of Hope
Film · 1942
White Heron
Film · 1941
Yukiko and Natsuyo
Film · 1941
The Battle of Kawanakajima
Film · 1941
Dancers of Awa
Film · 1941
The Snake Princess
Film · 1940
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
Film · 1939
Sincerity
Film · 1939
Madam with a Ribbon
Film · 1939
Tojuro's Love
Film · 1938
Family Diary Part II
Film · 1938
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
Film · 1937
Learn from Experience, Part One
Film · 1937
Learn from Experience, Part Two
Film · 1937
Karayuki-san
Film · 1937
A Woman's Sorrows
Film · 1937
Mother's Melody
Film · 1937
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
Film · 1937
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
Film · 1937
Shirobara wa sakedo
Film · 1937
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
Film · 1936
Kuriyama Daizen
Film · 1936
Great Bodhisattva Pass
Film · 1935
Karisome no kuchibeni
Film · 1934
Tsuki yori no shisha
Film · 1934
The Water Magician
Film · 1933
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
Film · 1932
Jean Valjean: Part One
Film · 1931
Jean Valjean: Part Two
Film · 1931
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
Film · 1931
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
Film · 1930
Behold This Mother
Film · 1930
The Morning Sun Shines
Film · 1929
Matenro sôtohen
Film · 1929
A Living Puppet
Film · 1929
Tokyo March
Film · 1929
Metropolitan Symphony
Film · 1929
Kakute ninjutsu eiga wa owarinu
Film