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Takako Irie is a Actor and Producer Japonaise born on 7 february 1911

Takako Irie

Takako Irie
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Birth name Hideko Higashibōjō
Nationality Japon
Birth 7 february 1911
Death 12 january 1995 (at 83 years)

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".

Her husband, Michiyoshi Tamura, was a film producer who disappeared without a trace. Their daughter, Wakaba Irie, is also an actress. Irie's brother, Yasunaga Higashibōjō, was a film director and screenwriter.

Biography

Issue d'une haute famille aristocratique, Takako Irie entre à la Nikkatsu en 1927. Grâce à ses traits délicats et raffinés, elle incarne des rôles de femmes traditionnelles ou fatales. Elle devient une des stars du cinéma muet japonais, en particulier avec Tomu Uchida et Kenji Mizoguchi.

En 1932, Takako Irie quitte la Nikkatsu et devient la première femme japonaise à fonder sa propre société de production, la Irie Production. Elle produit notamment quatre films de Kenji Mizoguchi. Le premier est L'Aube de la fondation d'un état : La Mandchourie-Mongolie en 1932, un film de propagande. Puis suivent Le Fil blanc de la cascade et La Fête à Gion en 1933 et enfin Vents sacrés en 1934. Mais Kenji Mizoguchi se dispute avec son actrice et productrice et il retourne à la Nikkatsu pour son film suivant.

En revanche, avec l'arrivée du parlant, sa carrière sera plus difficile et, excepté avec Mikio Naruse et Akira Kurosawa dans Le Plus Beau (Ichiban utsukushiku, 1944), elle ne joue plus que des rôles secondaires. Après guerre, sa carrière décline rapidement. Elle connait des problèmes de santé et une série d'humiliations tant personnelles que professionnelles, allant jusqu'à accepter de tourner dans des films d'horreur de série B pour faire vivre sa famille. Le coup fatal à sa carrière étant sans doute lorsque Kenji Mizoguchi l'exclue du tournage de L'Impératrice Yang Kwei-Fei en 1955.

Quand Akira Kurosawa lui confie le rôle de la femme du chambellan Mutsuta dans Sanjuro (1962) dix-huit ans après l'avoir fait tourner pour la première fois, Takako Irie s'est retirée du milieu du cinéma et gère un club à Ginza.

Takako Irie est la mère de l'actrice Wakaba Irie, née en 1943. Elle a tourné dans près de 170 films entre 1928 et 1984.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Takako Irie (16 films)

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Actress

The Little Girl Who Conquered Time, 1h44
Directed by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi
Origin Japon
Genres Science fiction, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Time travel films
Actors Tomoyo Harada, Ittoku Kishibe, Toshinori Omi, Takako Irie, Ken Uehara, Toshie Negishi
Roles Tatsu Fukamachi
Rating64% 3.2452353.2452353.2452353.2452353.245235
Après avoir été retrouvée inconsciente dans une salle de chimie, une jeune lycéenne semble pouvoir voyager dans le temps.
Sanjuro
Sanjuro (1962)
, 1h36
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action
Themes Seafaring films, Sports films, Transport films, Martial arts films, Samurai films
Actors Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Yūzō Kayama, Takashi Shimura
Roles Mutsuta's wife
Rating79% 3.9988753.9988753.9988753.9988753.998875
Nine young samurai, including his nephew, believe that the lord chamberlain, Mutsuta, is corrupt after he tore up their petition against organised crime and said maybe he himself was behind the crimes. One of them tells the superintendent of this and he agrees to intervene. As the nine meet secretly at a shrine and discuss their problem, a ronin (Mifune) emerges from another room where he has been resting. The ronin has overheard their plans, and suggests that the superintendent is in fact the real corrupt official. While at first the samurai are insulted by his claims, they soon find themselves surrounded by the superintendent's men, proving that he was correct. The ronin hits a few of the attackers and bluffs their leader into leaving, taking only a small amount of money in reward to buy food because he is starving; however, after realizing that Mutsuta and his family must now be in danger, he decides to help the samurai bring down the corrupt officials.
Ghost-Cat of Gojusan-Tsugi, 1h27
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Takako Irie, Shintarō Katsu
Roles Court Lady Fujinami
Rating56% 2.8328352.8328352.8328352.8328352.832835
Ghost of Saga Mansion, 1h37
Directed by Ryōhei Arai
Genres Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Kunitarō Sawamura, Takako Irie, Chieko Naniwa, Koji Nanbara
Roles Otoyo-no-kata
Rating69% 3.4566953.4566953.4566953.4566953.456695
Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace, 49minutes
Directed by Ryōhei Arai
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Actors Takako Irie
Rating63% 3.1839553.1839553.1839553.1839553.183955
The Most Beautiful, 1h25
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, War
Themes Politique, Films about the labor movement, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Yōko Yaguchi, Takashi Shimura, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Takako Irie, Michiko Oikawa, Akitake Kōno
Roles Noriko Mizushima, dorm mother
Rating57% 2.8506552.8506552.8506552.8506552.850655
The film depicts the struggle for the workers at a lens factory to meet production targets during World War II. They continually drive themselves, both singly and as a group, to exceed the targets set for them by the factory directors.
The Water Magician, 1h59
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Crime, Romance
Actors Takako Irie, Ichirō Sugai (菅井一郎), Kumeko Urabe
Roles Taki no Shiraito
Rating71% 3.5804653.5804653.5804653.5804653.580465
Japon, 1890. Taki no Shiraito travaille dans une troupe de forains, elle est célèbre pour sa beauté et sa grande dextérité dans son spectacle de jets d'eau. Alors que la troupe participe au festival annuel de Kanazawa près de la rivière Asano, elle tombe amoureuse de Kinya Murakoshi, un jeune conducteur d'attelage qui a perdu son emploi par sa faute. À la mort de ses parents, cet ancien étudiant en droit a dû se mettre à travailler pour gagner sa vie. Taki no Shiraito, de son vrai nom Tomo Mizushima, promet de l'aider et lui offre de l'argent pour qu'il puisse reprendre ses études. Le couple se sépare et Kinya prend le train pour Tokyo.
Tokyo March, 1h41
Directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Origin Japon
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Shizue Natsukawa, Isamu Kosugi, Takako Irie, Kōji Shima
Roles Sayuri
Rating65% 3.2794653.2794653.2794653.2794653.279465
Il existe deux versions de ce film dans son montage court. Une française, muette, restaurée en 1999 par la Cinémathèque française à partir d'une copie-travail nitrate provenant de ses collections et une japonaise presque identique mais plus courte, il manque par exemple quelques scènes du mariage d'Orie et de Yukichi, mais commentée par un benshi. Les intertitres des deux versions comportent des différences. Le synopsis ci-dessous se base sur la version japonaise.