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".
81 movies
The Deserted City
1984·7.1
Legend of the Cat Monster
1983·5.0
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
1983·6.8
The House of Hanging
1979·6.2
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
1975·7.2
Sanjuro
1962·7.9
Lord Mito
1957·5.4
Ghost-Cat of Yonaki Swamp
1957·7.0
Fighting Letter for 29 People
1957·0.0
Case Files of Zenigata Heiji: The Human-Skin Spider
1956·0.0
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
1956·8.0
Matashirō Fighting Journey
1956·0.0
The Roar of The Lion
1955·0.0
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1954·7.1
The Great White Tiger Platoon
1954·6.0
Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
1954·0.0
Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
1954·9.0
Maiko monogatari
1954·0.0
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
1954·0.0
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
1953·8.0
Love Letter
1953·6.8
Ghost of Saga Mansion
1953·7.7
Kurama Tengu: The Fire Festival
1951·0.0
Tales of a Drifter
1951·0.0
Judge of the Ashuras
1951·10.0
Blue Sky Angel
1950·8.0
Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
1950·0.0
Kagebōshi
1950·0.0
Odoroki ikka
1949·0.0
Doburoku no Tatsu
1949·0.0
Doku bara
1949·0.0
Three Mothers
1949·0.0
Hakata Dontaku
1947·0.0
Invitation to Happiness
1947·10.0
Female Prisoner #36
1947·0.0
Political Theater
1947·0.0
Koyoi Tsuma to Narinu
1947·0.0
Life Is like a Somersault
1946·7.0
Four Marriages
1944·8.0
The Most Beautiful
1944·5.6
Omokage no machi
1942·8.0
Wings of Victory
1942·6.8
Mother Never Dies
1942·6.2
Green Earth
1942·0.0
Sky of Hope
1942·8.0
The Battle of Kawanakajima
1941·7.0
White Heron
1941·9.0
Yukiko and Natsuyo
1941·6.0
Dancers of Awa
1941·7.0
The Snake Princess
1940·8.0
Madam with a Ribbon
1939·0.0
Sincerity
1939·6.0
Enoken’s Shrewd Period
1939·9.0
Family Diary Part II
1938·0.0
Tojuro's Love
1938·7.0
Learn from Experience, Part Two
1937·6.3
Learn from Experience, Part One
1937·6.7
Shirobara wa sakedo
1937·0.0
A Husband's Chastity: Fall Again
1937·0.0
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes & Fall Once Again
1937·10.0
A Husband's Chastity: If Spring Comes
1937·0.0
Karayuki-san
1937·0.0
Mother's Melody
1937·0.0
A Woman's Sorrows
1937·6.7
Kuriyama Daizen
1936·0.0
Great Bodhisattva Pass 2
1936·0.0
Great Bodhisattva Pass
1935·10.0
Karisome no kuchibeni
1934·7.0
Tsuki yori no shisha
1934·0.0
The Water Magician
1933·7.3
The Dawn of Manchuria and Mongolia
1932·8.0
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1931·7.0
Jean Valjean: Part Two
1931·0.0
Jean Valjean: Part One
1931·7.0
Behold This Mother
1930·9.0
Yoshie Fujiwara's Hometown
1930·7.0
Matenro sôtohen
1929·0.0
Tokyo March
1929·6.1
A Living Puppet
1929·10.0
The Morning Sun Shines
1929·5.8
Metropolitan Symphony
1929·10.0