Takako Irie
Born February 07, 1911 (Age: 115)
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Tokyo, Japan
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".
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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Filmography
Sanjuro
1962
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as Mutsuta's wife
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Age: 50
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Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
1956
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as
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Age: 45
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956
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as Court Lady Fujinami
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Age: 45
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956
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as
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Age: 44
The Roar of The Lion
1955
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as
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Age: 44
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954
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as
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Age: 43
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The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954
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as
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Age: 43
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954
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as
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Age: 43
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954
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as
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Age: 43
Maiko monogatari
1954
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as
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Age: 43
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妻恋黒田節
1954
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as
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Age: 43
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953
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as
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Age: 42
Love Letter
1953
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as
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Age: 42
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953
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as Otoyo-no-kata
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Age: 42
Blue Sky Angel
1950
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as
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Age: 39
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950
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as
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Age: 38
Kagebōshi
1950
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as 千賀
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Age: 38
Omokage no machi
1942
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as
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Age: 31
Wings of Victory
1942
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as
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Age: 31
Mother Never Dies
1942
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as
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Age: 31
Green Earth
1942
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as
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Age: 31
Sky of Hope
1942
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as Makiko
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Age: 30
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941
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as Chiyono - widow
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Age: 30
White Heron
1941
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as
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Age: 30
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Yukiko and Natsuyo
1941
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as Yukiko
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Age: 30
Dancers of Awa
1941
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as
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Age: 30
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The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
1932
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as Shiho Hime
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Age: 21
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931
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as
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Age: 20
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931
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as
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Age: 20
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931
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as
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Age: 20
Behold This Mother
1930
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as
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Age: 19
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Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
1930
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as Workwoman
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Age: 19