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Takako Irie

1911-02-07

The 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".

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Sanjuro

7.951 average rating
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The Little Girl Who Conquered Time

6.4 average rating
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The Most Beautiful

5.6 average rating
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Judge of the Ashuras

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The Deserted City

6.7 average rating
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Love Letter

6.7 average rating
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The House of Hanging

6 average rating
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Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director

6.8 average rating
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The Water Magician

6.9 average rating
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The Great White Tiger Platoon

6 average rating
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Legend of the Cat Monster

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Sky of Hope

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A Woman's Sorrows

6.7 average rating
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The Battle of Kawanakajima

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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki

8 average rating
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Learn from Experience, Part Two

6.2 average rating
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Sincerity

5.4 average rating
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Lord Mito

5.4 average rating
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Kagebōshi

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Tokyo March

6.029 average rating