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Takako Irie
Tokyo, Japan
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…
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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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1984
The Deserted City
Movie Shino
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1983
Legend of the Cat Monster
Movie Akiko Ryuzoji
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1983
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
Movie Tatsu Fukamachi
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1979
The House of Hanging
Movie Chizu Igarashi
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1975
Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director
Movie Self
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1962
Sanjuro
Movie Mutsuta's wife
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1957
Lord Mito
Movie
- 1957
- 1957
- 1956
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1956
The Monster Cat of the Fifty-Three Stations
Movie Court Lady Fujinami
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1956
Koshimoto gyōjōki
Movie
- 1956
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1955
The Roar of The Lion
Movie
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1955
Nagasaki no yoru
Movie
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1955
The Rust Cleaner Sings
Movie
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- 1955
- 1955
- 1954
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1954
Date sōdō: Haha goten
Movie
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1954
Akōgishi
Movie
- 1954
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1954
Tekka bugyō
Movie
- 1954
- 1954
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1954
Maiko monogatari
Movie
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1954
Hana no nagadosu
Movie
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1954
Yoidore nitōryū
Movie
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1954
Tsumakoi kuroda bushi
Movie
- 1953
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1953
Love Letter
Movie
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1953
Ghost of Saga Mansion
Movie Otoyo-no-kata
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1953
Dekoboko taikōki
Movie
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1953
Shachō hisho
Movie
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1953
Haha no hitomi
Movie
- 1953
- 1951
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1951
Tales of a Drifter
Movie
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1951
Judge of the Ashuras
Movie
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1950
Blue Sky Angel
Movie
